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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.

And now its self-proclaimed architect, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, has been given by the Obama administration a civilian trial in New York.

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Prosecutors can retry an ex-sailor who received a conditional pardon from Virginia's governor after spending 11 years in prison for the rape and murder of a fellow sailor's wife, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

Const. Christopher Worden's widow, Jodie Worden, left, stands with his brother, Michael Worden, and parents, John and Mary Ann Worden, after Thursday's verdict was announced.

A man charged with fatally stabbing and beating six people in Tennessee and Alabama asked a responding deputy to let him hug his 4-year-old daughter -- the only person spared in the attack, the deputy testified Thursday.

A Kentucky man working for a private company that transports prisoners has been indicted on a charge of traveling in interstate commerce to engage in sex with an inmate.

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

The slaying of a gay teenager whose decapitated, partially burned body was found along a road in Puerto Rico last week is under investigation as a possible hate crime, a police official said Wednesday.

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.

More charges have been brought against Karen Cunagin Sypher, the woman accused of trying to extort millions of dollars from Rick Pitino including one count because she went to the police.

A judge has entered a not-guilty plea on behalf of a 15-year-old-girl charged as an adult in the strangulation and stabbing death of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten.

A condemned killer who prosecutors said had been faking mental illness to avoid execution won a reprieve from a federal judge less than two hours before he could have been taken to the Texas death chamber Tuesday evening.

What possesses a man to steal his ex-employer's bus, take it for a three-state joy ride and then post a video of the lark on YouTube? "It was inspired," Jacob Rehm, 38, said outside court Tuesday.

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.

A 42-year-old South Carolina woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy she was baby-sitting. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reports Susan Tappeiner of Bluffton was sentenced Monday.

Not far from the pulsating music and dancing of the high school homecoming, young men were drinking in a dimly-lit courtyard out of sight of chaperones.

The Obama administration on Tuesday will announce 'a sustained, multilevel attack on financial fraud,' including mortgage rip-offs, a senior administration official said.

This undated photo provided by Dennis Hof, shows Brooke Phillips. On Friday, Nov.

The Obama administration is opposing former Gov. Don Siegelman's appeal of his felony corruption conviction before the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that federal prosecutors presented enough evidence to prove bribery.