DENVER -- A severely disabled man fired because of his after-hours medical-marijuana use has no legal recourse because the drug remains banned under federal law, a Colorado court ruled Thursday. A three-judge panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals up ...

With a federal judge clearing away age restrictions on purchasing emergency contraception, many Chicago-area health care providers, teens and others are preparing for more accessibility -- even if they're not exactly sure how the drug will be made av ...

Seven defendants in cases related to agent's slaying just sentenced Two years after bandits killed U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, visible progress has finally occurred in the criminal cases and internal investigations that exploded afterward. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday made it harder for police to take driver blood tests without a warrant. There were only partial dissents. In October 2010, Tyler G. McNeely was pulled over by a Missouri state highway patrolman for speeding. The patro ...

PHILADELPHIA - Yashoda Gurung said she wanted her mother to have the baby. But Karnamaya Mongar was insistent: after 20 years living in tin-roofed huts in a Nepal refugee camp, with three children, and just four months in the United States in Woodbri ...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court justices said Monday they were highly skeptical of the idea that a company or a scientist can hold a patent on human genes and prevent others from testing or using them. "What about the first person who found a liver?" ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, famous as the jurist who kept silent on the bench for seven years, has a lot to say. Thomas, on the court since 1991, visited Duquesne University on Tuesday afternoon and talked freely with law school Dean Ken G ...

A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled Friday that emergency contraception must be available over the counter without restriction for women of all ages, giving the product the same retail status as cough drops and condoms. U.S. District Judge Edward Korma ...

Stockton became the largest city in the nation to be approved for bankruptcy protection on Monday, a ruling that some say could spark a rush of cities across California to file for bankruptcy protection. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein said t ...

DENVER - A clerical error allowed the man suspected of killing Colorado's prisons chief to be released from custody about four years early, officials said Monday. In 2008, Evan Spencer Ebel pleaded guilty in rural Fremont County to assaulting a priso ...