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Muggers punched a two-year-old girl in the head as they demanded money from her mother, Scotland Yard said.

Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack.

Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers charged with lying to investors always were honest about the risks of investing in securities linked to the volatile subprime mortgage market, a defense lawyer told a jury on Friday.

A New York City woman convicted of killing her father and mutilating his body has been sentenced to five to 15 years in prison.

Royce Clyde Zeigler II enters Judge David Garner's 10th District Court in Galveston , Texas Wednesday November 4, 2009.

Raymond Clark III , 24, is arraigned at Superior Court in New Haven, Conn. A judge will decide Friday whether to release evidence in the case of a man suspected of strangling Yale graduate student Annie Le , a court spokeswoman said.

Lax standards of school discipline make pupils more likely to turn to crime and drugs, Government research has revealed.

SATELLITE BEACH, Fla. a ' No bars or razor wire hold former Florida inmate No. 082629. Instead, William Dillon sits on furniture the color of ripe lemons, surrounded by cheerful animal statues and blooming plants, a prisoner no longer after 27 years.

Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 11:01 p.m. WASHINGTON - Defying the Obama administration, the House Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to remove from the USA Patriot Act a tool for tracking non-U.S. citizens in anti-terrorism investigations.

A man who agreed to testify against his friends in a fatal gang attack on an Ecuadorean immigrant pleaded guilty Thursday to hate crime charges, telling a judge he knew from the start they wouldn't "get away with it." "Throw away the knife," Nicholas Hausch says he pleaded with Jeffrey Conroy as they and five others ran from the scene.

A mother-of-three has branded a council "ludicrous and completely outrageous" as she took the authority to court for using controversial powers to spy on her family.

Criminal charges have been filed against 14 people, including attorneys and Wall Street professionals, in a widening $53 million insider trading case that has already snared one of the richest men in America, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to the White House and tax crimes in a deal that could send him to prison for about 2½ years.

After days of meticulous plodding through photos and records seized from a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch, jurors could begin deliberating the sexual assault case against one its members as early as Thursday.

Sentencing judges should spell out the exact amount of time a criminal is likely to spend in prison, Victims' Champion Sara Payne has said.

In this Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006 file picture, John Gotti Jr. exits Manhattan federal court after his third trial ended in a mistrial in New York.

The lawyer for a Florida man who claims he's too fat to have killed his former son-in-law told jurors on Wednesday all they have to do is is look at his client to see that he's obese, old, and in no condition to commit such a murder.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to a settlement worth more than $700 million over federal regulators' charges that it made unlawful payments to friends of public officials to win municipal bond business in Jefferson County, Ala.

NEW ORLEANS Every time someone is convicted in a criminal or a traffic case in Jefferson Parish, $2 of their court fees goes to Crimestoppers.

Attorneys for imprisoned polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs on Tuesday will argue an appeal of his 2007 criminal conviction before the Utah Supreme Court.