An 18-year-old high school senior, accused of having sex with her then-14-year-old girlfriend, has rejected a plea deal that could have kept her off Florida's sex-offender registry. Kaitlyn Hunt of Indian River County is charged with two felony count ...

DENVER - In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to ...

True the Vote - one of the conservative groups the IRS subjected to special scrutiny when it applied for tax-exempt status - sued the federal government on Tuesday, demanding the tax agency approve its application that has now been pending for three ...

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider the issue of prayers at government meetings -- a practice common in Congress and the states for centuries. The religious expression case from the town of Greece, N.Y., focuses on the first 10 words of the F ...

WASHINGTON - A second federal appeals court has found that President Barack Obama exceeded his power when he bypassed the Senate to install a member to the National Labor Relations Board. The ruling by the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Philade ...

PHILADELPHIA -- An abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, was co ...

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case ...

CHICAGO - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she supports a woman's right to choose to have an abortion, but feels her predecessors' landmark Roe v. Wade ruling 40 years ago was too sweeping and gave abortion opponents a symbol to ta ...

SANFORD, Fla. _ Murder defendant George Zimmerman will not have a "stand your ground" hearing before his trial, after he waived that right in court Tuesday. However, the issue could still resurface at trial, his defense lawyer said during a roughly t ...

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday morning turned back Alabama's appeal of a lower court's ruling striking down a portion of the state's immigration law making it a state crime to conceal, harbor or transport undocumented aliens into the state. The appeal ...