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The parents who pulled off the balloon boy hoax are already facing the prospect of jail time and paying tens of thousands of dollars in restitution over their stunt.

The House health care bill would bar any health plan that receives federal money from covering abortions.

Two EMTs on a coffee break who failed to help a dying pregnant woman acted "to the best of their abilities," their lawyer said Tuesday, while the woman's mother condemned them as "inhuman." The EMTs, Jason Green and Melissa Jackson, were suspended without pay and the Brooklyn district attorney opened a criminal investigation into the case.State ...

The top prosecutors in seven states are probing the constitutionality of a political deal that cut a funding break for Nebraska in order to pass a federal health care reform bill, South Carolina's attorney general said Tuesday.

APPLE VALLEY, Calif. a " Authorities are searching for a man and a woman who are accused of torturing a 5-year-old boy for five months at a San Bernardino County home.Sheriff's spokeswoman Arden Wiltshire said Tuesday that $1 million arrest warrants have been issued for 28-year-old Crystal Pauline Rodriguez and 32-year-old Martin Roland ...

" Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is criticizing "backroom deals" made to ensure the passage of the health care bill but the Democrat says he will still vote for the legislation.

A woman has appeared in court accused of child abuse offences in connection with convicted paedophile Colin Blanchard.

Here's a look at some of the concessions lawmakers and interest groups won in the latest version of the Senate's health care overhaul bill: ___ LAWMAKERS: SEN.

Oscar Richardson was a 61-year-old father living a low-key life in Missouri, working as a handyman when he was arrested over the weekend, accused of escaping a Florida prison 30 years ago.

A southwest Missouri teenager is accused of stabbing a man with an ice pick in a dispute over a parking spot.

Anthony Marshall and his wife, Charlene, face judgment day Monday in the sentencing for cheating his mother, Brooke Astor, out of her estate.

Gov. Don Carcieri has proposed cutting millions of dollars meant to reimburse hospitals for providing health care to the poor during a recession that has cost thousands of Rhode Island residents their jobs and employer-provided health insurance.

The federal government is encouraging farmers to spread a chalky waste from coal-fired power plants on their fields to loosen and fertilize soil even as it considers regulating coal wastes for the first time.

A Missouri teenager charged with killing her 9-year-old neighbor has new lawyers.

A comparison of the health care bills before Congress: --- The Senate Democratic bill : WHO'S COVERED: About 94 percent of legal residents under age 65 - compared with 83 percent now.

It was the concern of Nebraska's Republican governor over expanded Medicaid costs in the proposed Senate health care overhaul bill that led to a compromise to cover his state's estimated $45 million share over a decade, U.S. Sen.

A judge is weighing a critical legal question in the case of a man who confessed to killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers: Can the man claim at his trial that the slaying was justified to save the lives of unborn children? Scott Roeder, a 51-year-old Kansas City, Mo., man, is charged with one count of premeditated, ...

Prosecutors investigating Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton were prepared to seek indictments of them for their roles in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky affairs, an explosive new book about the former president's scandals charges.

Perhaps it is the spirit of the season, but my empathy receptors are in overdrive for poor Barack Obama.

Virginia Hernandez Lopez admitted to knocking back two shots of tequila with Sprite chasers on an August night in Julian, Calif., a couple of years ago.