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A high-profile South Florida attorney under federal investigation for allegedly running a huge fraud scheme has been sued for $100 million by a group of investors.

Powers aimed at tackling violent gangs are to be extended to children as young as 14.

Caption: Chris Brown and Melody Thornton on the set of a music video in Hollywood Los Angeles, California .... BROWN PASSES PROGRESS HEARING CHRIS BROWN has completed just seven out of 52 required domestic violence classes since he was sentenced in June for his attack on ex-girlfriend RIHANNA - but they're enough to keep him out of jail.

The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to add more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent steep Medicare payment cuts to doctors, a move Republicans denounced as a political payoff.

The federal government has decided to abandon a Bush administration plan that would have permitted mutual fund companies and brokerage firms to offer investment advice to 401 customers.

An Ohio man has been found not guilty of homicide by child abuse in the 2007 death of his daughter in South Carolina.

Gov. Rick Perry may have to decide whether condemned killer Robert Lee Thompson, set for execution Thursday, lives or dies.

As the U.S. Senate braces for a heated debate about its version of health care reform legislation unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid late Wednesday, U.S. Rep.

Maricopa County prosecutors on Wednesday filed Arizona's first civil complaint against a business under a 22-month-old state law that prohibits employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.

Setting up a historic year-end health care debate, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled long-awaited legislation Wednesday night to extend coverage to all but 6 percent of eligible Americans and bar private industry from denying insurance because of pre-existing medical conditions.

This picture provided on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 by the Cole County Sheriff's Department shows Alyssa Bustamante.

Crystal Godfrey lights candles during a vigil for 5-year-old Shaniya Nicole Davis whose body was found near Sanford, N.C. on Monday, Nov.

A friend invited a 16-year-old girl to join them, and she started drinking hard liquor, too.

A Mid-South oncologist was instrumental in a clinical trial that will help women nationwide.

A Wisconsin man strangled his 14-year-old stepson with a necktie in a minivan in a Walmart parking lot, telling investigators he wanted to get revenge on his wife and her relatives for interfering in his business, prosecutors said Tuesday.

The Obama administration created a new task force on Tuesday vowing to crack down on financial fraud following a rise in mortgage scams and high-profile Wall Street trading scandals.

A suspect in the killing of four people in Oklahoma City, including a prostitute featured in the HBO reality series "Cathouse," turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday, police said.

When it comes to paying for a health care overhaul, Americans see just one way to go: tax the rich.

Business foes of health care overhaul legislation are outspending supporters at a rate of 2-to-1 for TV ads as they grow increasingly nervous over a final bill.

Some employers are pressuring workers not to report illnesses and injuries, just one problem that has led to widespread underreporting of workplace safety issues, according to congressional investigators.