1 day ago - The FBI and Cook County authorities are investigating the alleged abuse of employee sick time and family leave at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
2 days ago - A woman accused of exposing her barefoot daughters to subzero temperatures in Grand Forks has pleaded guilty to two counts of abuse or neglect of a child.
2 days ago - A Missouri mother said she never should have been prosecuted for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old girl who ended up committing suicide.
2 days ago - A federal judge has tentatively thrown out the convictions of a Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who ended up committing suicide.
2 days ago - A former Pennsylvania state senator convicted of a multimillion-dollar fraud is seeking a new trial on corruption charges, alleging the jury was tainted.
3 days ago - A 61-year-old woman faces a prison term of 16 years and eight months in the stabbing of her two daughters at their Roseville home last August.
3 days ago - Two more people on Thursday pleaded guilty in a wide-ranging public Cuyahoga County corruption investigation, bringing to four the number of people expected to help federal prosecutors in return for sentence leniency.
3 days ago - A Mexican national has pleaded guilty to carrying a gun while he and six others held 30 people hostage inside an El Mirage home last January.
3 days ago - A St. Paul woman has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of her boyfriend's wife, who blamed the defendant for spreading venereal disease to the couple.