Lawyers

An FBI review team from Washington was in Orlando on Thursday investigating the death of Ibragim Todashev, the Central Florida man shot by an agent while being questioned about a triple murder in Massachusetts and his connection to the Boston Marathon...

An attorney representing the University of Maryland argued Thursday that the Atlantic Coast Conference has left the college's athletic department with a vast budget "hole" by improperly withholding millions of dollars in shared conference revenues after...

The secretly drafted bill that would give Newtown massacre victims' families the power to veto disclosure of some investigative records might create a broader precedent — because future crime victims' families could ask for the same power in their...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a break from bipartisan battles over judicial appointments, the U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a White House nominee to the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The Senate voted 97-0 to...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police rescued a businessman from a New York City warehouse where he had been held captive for a month by kidnappers who demanded a $3 million ransom from his family in Ecuador, authorities said. Police posing as building...

WASHINGTON — A Mexican drug cartel commander pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and attempted murder in a 2011 ambush south of the border that left one American agent dead and a second injured, and which sharply strained U.S.-Mexico relations....

A former Los Angeles police homicide detective was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in a Hawaii prison for beating his wife to death, authorities said. Dan DeJarnette, 59, pleaded guilty in March to manslaughter. The plea came shortly before he was to...

MICHIGAN BUDGET-EDUCATION Michigan budget panel OKs fund boost for colleges LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's community colleges and universities could receive roughly 2 percent more in overall funding next fiscal year. Republican-led conference...

New efforts are underway to combat what aging experts say has become one of the top threats facing elders: losing their savings to con artists and financial predators. Gerontologists at a Detroit university have created, for the first time, a...

The union representing two Pasadena police officers accused of failing to turn over evidence in a murder trial says they should be cleared of wrongdoing because prosecutors have admitted to misplacing evidence in the case. In February, Pasadena Police...

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Police rescued a businessman from a New York City warehouse where he had been held captive for a month by kidnappers who demanded a $3 million ransom from his family in Ecuador, authorities said. Acting...

A former federal prosecutor who was a key member of the team that won a conviction of former Gov. George Ryan was nominated today to be Chicago’s next U.S. attorney. Zachary Fardon, 46, won the nod over Lori Lightfoot, who as a woman and an...