Journalism

An Arizona police officer has been placed on administrative leave after what the Scottsdale Police Department confirms is his seventh on-the-job shooting since 2002. Former LAPD officer and current University of Missouri professor David Klinger says that by most estimates, 90 percent of cops never shoot anyone in their career.

On June 16, 2005, 15-year-old Nakisha Waddell took the stand in a Virginia courtroom and tried to explain why she’d murdered her mother.

Four years ago, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour was criticized for pardoning six men who had been convicted of killing their wives or girlfriends. And now, he’s done it again.

Suddenly, being a pharmacist is a dangerous profession. According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, armed robberies of pharmacies increased 51 percent between 2006 and 2010, rising from 385 to 698.

When investigators cannot definitively determine cause of death, finding a suspect and convincing a jury of his or her guilt takes on a whole new level of difficulty.

A newly released psychological profile of Colton Harris-Moore – the so-called “Barefoot Bandit” who taught himself how to fly and then stole five single-engine airplanes – reports that the 20-year-old was “a healthy infant and toddler” who became psychologically damaged during his childhood by an alcoholic mother and the violent men in her life.

As Hinckley’s doctors petition a Washington court for his release from the mental hospital where he has lived for three decades, the case is once again a bellwether, this time for how the judicial system treats those whose criminal actions have been found to be the result of a mental illness, once that illness is

On Monday afternoon, 18-year-old Cristina Fierro stood before a crowd of reporters at a Manhattan hotel and announced that she was suing former football star Lawrence Taylor.