AP - Phil Spector was sentenced Friday to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, who was shot through the mouth in the music producer's home six years ago.
AP - A judge has dismissed some charges against Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon and all charges against a councilwoman indicted in a probe of city finances. -- read full article
Thu, 28 May 2009 19:52:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Colleges nationwide have unconstitutionally barred students from handing out literature, protesting and gathering in support of the right to carry weapons on campus, students and an advocacy group say. -- read full article
Thu, 28 May 2009 18:53:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A man filed a $220 million lawsuit on Thursday claiming that New York Police Department officers robbed him of his civil rights by sodomizing him with a baton in a subway station. -- read full article
Thu, 28 May 2009 19:05:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Prosecutors and defense lawyers offered similar portraits of the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller as his kidnapping trial opened Thursday: a German-born man who has spent decades making up fantastic lies about himself.
AP - A reputed mob boss, a police officer and five other men were charged Thursday in a sweeping racketeering indictment that alleges eight years of armed robberies, burglaries, jewel thefts and arson based in the western suburbs of Chicago. -- read full article
Fri, 29 May 2009 06:23:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - California would build two prison hospitals under a proposed settlement to a long-running dispute between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration and the federal courts over inmate medical care.
AP - A judge on Thursday ordered a 15-year-old tried as an adult on a charge of soliciting her father's stabbing death in a case that points toward a showdown over her mental state.
AP - A 13-year-old boy cancer patient who fled the state with his mother rather than face chemotherapy underwent a round of the treatment he feared Thursday, a family spokesman said.
AP - An openly gay teen has been voted prom queen at his Los Angeles high school in a campaign that began as a stunt but ended up spurring discussion on the campus about gender roles and popularity. -- read full article
Fri, 29 May 2009 03:23:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - The woman who fired a gun at President Gerald Ford in 1975 and spent the next 32 years in prison said in an interview Thursday that she believed the country would change only through a violent revolution.
AP - Multiracial Americans have become the fastest growing demographic group, wielding an impact on minority growth that challenges traditional notions of race.