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Police say actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested in midtown Manhattan after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window.

A man wanted for 13 years on attempted murder charges in Los Angeles was captured in Colorado after someone called police to report he was urinating on a wall outside a KFC restaurant.

Two news organizations on Thursday challenged a judge's decision to keep the public from learning the details of a case against a man charged with killing a 15-year-old girl.

Winnebago County State's Attorney Joe Bruscato announced today that 33-year-old Jamie Dock was sentenced today to 375 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections in front of Judge McGraw after being found guilty after a jury trial on July 11, 2012 of charges of Armed Robbery and Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault .

A Manhattan Criminal Court Grand Jury indicted Elliot Morales, accused of shooting and killing a gay man in the West Village last weekend for a hate crime murder.

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.