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Federal prosecutors said Thursday five people have been arrested in the robbery of $4 million in jewelry in a heist, that started with the kidnapping of store employees in a town more than 40 miles away.

Women's rights attorney Gloria Allred joined students from four U.S. colleges and universities on Wednesday to announce the filing of federal complaints over how the higher-education institutions including UC Berkeley handle rape allegations.

The Stolen Valor Act cleared the Senate Wednesday and the House earlier this week.

Brandon Schaible was only 7-months-old when he died last month from dehydration and bacterial pneumonia from a streptococcus infection.

West Mercia Police says it is entitled, by law, to take the swabs of anyone over the age of 10 - the legal age of responsibility.

An eastern Ohio grand jury examining whether other laws were broken in the case of a 16-year-old girl raped by two high school football players prepared to resume work Thursday after a three-week break.

At the center of a political storm, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents targeted conservative groups swore Wednesday she did nothing wrong, broke no laws and never lied to Congress.

MPs have accused Theresa May of being 'keen to distance herself from any responsibility to assess the performance of the PCCs' Stronger scrutiny is required of elected police commissioners to prevent "maverick decision making", a damning report by MPs has warned.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has indefinitely delayed the execution of convicted killer Nathan Dunlap, saying that he had doubts about the death penalty, much to the dismay of victims' families and a furious district attorney.

Voters approved a law limiting the number of medical pot shops in Los Angeles after politicians failed for years to corral the blossoming industry.

When Michael Klunder enticed two girls to enter his pickup truck near a rural Iowa school bus stop Monday, it was at least his third kidnapping in a long criminal history in which he was ordered to receive sex offender treatment starting as a teenager.

A 15-year-old girl found dead in woods north of Bangor knew the man charged with killing her, her best friend said, contrary to a report from her mother that she left her Glenburn home to see someone she recently met on Facebook before she disappeared.

John P. Tomkins, a letter carrier of Dubuque, Iowa, mailed dud pipe bombs from 'The Bishop.' On Tuesday, May 21, a federal judge in Chicago sentenced 'Bishop' Tomkins to 37 years in prison.

Michael Swayngim, 25, could face the death penalty if found guilty of the first-degree murder of his four-year-old son.

In a surprise jailhouse interview just hours after a jury began deliberating her fate, Jodi Arias spoke out Tuesday about her murder trial, her many fights with her legal team and her belief that she "deserves a second chance at freedom someday." Arias spoke to The Associated Press as part of a series of interviews with media outlets.

UPDATED STORY. NEWEST INFO! In a stunning, historic development, Federal agents raided the Indianapolis City-County Building as part of an effort to root out public corruption in Indianapolis.

Summoned by Congress, a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination and decline to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

A father says a case of love versus the law has left his daughter, a high school student, facing criminal charges that could land her in prison and require her to register as a sex offender.

New state-wide outreach programs have helped more than 15 child victims of human trafficking in the past five months alone, according to the governor's office.

Four Montgomery County residents are hoping to fill two open seats in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas in January, but the first step is making it past the Primary Election, in which all of the candidates are cross-filed. Republican candidates Sharon Giamporcaro and Maureen Coggins will be on the Republican and Democrat ballots, as will ... (more)