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Two former Bear Stearns executives reached settlements Monday with federal regulators over civil charges they mislead investors about risky mortgage securities when the housing market was collapsing.

A man upset about being thrown out of a restaurant returned to exact revenge by shooting the off-duty Maryland state trooper who was working security there and had told him to leave, a prosecutor said Monday.Jurors heard opening statements in the trial of Cyril Cornelius Williams, who is charged with first-degree murder in the June 2010 death of ... (more)

The defense for a man whose conviction in nine arson deaths was overturned over unreliable jailhouse snitches has its own newly found cellblock informant for a possible second trial, creating a snitch vs.

In this Feb. 10, 2012 file photo, Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach charged with sexually abusing boys, speaks to the media at the Centre County Courthouse after a bail conditions hearing, in Bellefonte, Pa.

Madison - Wisconsin crime victims wouldn't have to testify against their attackers during the early stages of their cases under a Republican bill making its way through the Legislature.

WHEN a law-enforcement agency as sophisticated and large as the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reopens a cold case that's eight years old, spends more than a year and a half investigating it, comes up with what it says is irrefutable DNA evidence and then arrests a suspect and holds him in lieu of $1 million in bail, you would think ... (more)

Josh Churchwell's younger brother Avery, 7, left, looks at pictures of Josh as their mother Jan sits nearby at their home in Burlington last week.

Brian Biff Baker was charged Friday in Salt Lake City's 3rd District Court with felony counts of drug and weapons possession, along with a misdemeanor count of threatening elected officials.

Rob Stary, a spokesman for the Law Institute of Victoria's criminal law section, represented both women who successfully argued they had killed as an act of defensive homicide.

The first two Contra Costa parents charged under a tough new state truancy law were supposed to be arraigned last week, but one was late and the other did not show up at all.

Police arrested Nalik Shariff Scott on Saturday. They announced the arrest of Ibrahim Muhammed on Friday.

Jerry Sandusky walked out of a courthouse Friday where a judge was considering whether to let him see his relatives and friends while he awaits trial on child sex-abuse charges and told reporters Friday he felt people have turned on him.

An eastern Pennsylvania teenager has been ordered to stand trial in the stabbing death of another teen following a fight at a playground last fall.

After former state Sen. Nicholas Spano pleaded guilty Friday to filing fraudulent tax returns and failing to report income, he and his attorney addressed reporters outside of the federal courthouse.

A federal appeals court's decision to delay the deportation of seven illegal immigrants until the Obama administration re-evaluates their cases could encourage thousands of other illegal immigrants to seek similar rulings and could open the door to uncomfortable questions about the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S, experts said.

A Menlo Park hedge fund manager was charged on Friday with making $900,000 illegally on inside information about three technology companies, the latest strand of the high-profile Galleon Group prosecutions against money managers and traders.

A former police captain was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for amassing what authorities said was one of the largest and most disturbing child pornography collections they've ever seen in Connecticut, one that included images of infants and toddlers.

SAN DIEGO &#8212 A veteran San Diego police officer was sentenced Friday to nearly nine years in prison for on-duty sexual battery and other crimes that were part of an embarrassing string of officer misconduct incidents that prompted major reforms in the department protecting the nation's eighth-largest city.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - University of Michigan officials said Friday they have ordered an outside review of campus security in the wake of a botched response to child pornography found on a medical resident's computer flash drive.

In this Aug. 23, 2011 file photo, Josh Powell, husband of missing Utah woman Susan Cox Powell, walks to a court hearing in Tacoma, Wash.