LAS VEGAS -- Former U.S. football star and film actor O.J. Simpson is going back to court for the first time since he was sentenced to prison, hoping to be granted an appeal of his conviction and sentence of up to 33 years. On Monday, Simpson intends ...

HOUSTON -- A paramedic who responded to the devastating fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, last month was arrested Friday after federal investigators said they discovered he had the makings of a pipe bomb. It was not clear whether the arrest ...

Three brothers, all in their 50s, were arrested in the apparent kidnapping of three women in the Cleveland area nearly 10 years ago, police said. The three women -- Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight -- were found Monday in a house in a C ...

'If they would have stopped and frisked the guys who shot my son, maybe he would be alive today. We need stop-and-frisk. We need it to save our children's lives.' - Mayor Bloomberg yesterday cited the senseless murder of an innocent Bronx teen in lau ...

WASHINGTON - Prosecutors say a Virginia man who planned a mass killing at the Washington headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group should spend 45 years in prison for his plot. Prosecutors filed a court document Friday that recommends t ...

Philadelphia - One clinic worker testified that she saw aborted fetuses moving, breathing and, once, "screeching." Another described a 2-foot-long fetus that "didn't have eyes or a mouth, but it was like ... making this noise. ... It sounded like a l ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A Massachusetts police official say the brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon before having shootouts with authorities didn't have gun permits. Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas tells The Associated Press in an ...

Believe it or not, there is something even worse than having to prepare your tax return. It's finding out that someone else already filed a return in your name, under your Social Security number, to collect a fraudulent refund. And that's just the be ...

PHOENIX - Authorities are investigating an explosive device addressed to Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff in America" known for his tough treatment of jail inmates and cracking down on illegal immigrants. The device ...

The man charged in the stabbings at a Cypress, Texas, college will be held without bail and will undergo psychiatric tests, a judge ruled Wednesday morning. The decision to hold suspect Dylan Andrew Quick, 20, came at a video conference arraignment b ...