Cash-strapped states are eyeing what some may think is an unlikely target for their budget axes: the death penalty. In what is likely to become a heated debate over policy, CNN is reporting that some states have introduced legislation to "take the death penalty off the books over financial concerns....

This week New Jersey resident Ryan Ward pled guilty to disorderly conduct related to impersonating New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain. Also this week, a Florida woman's Corvette was stolen and crashed by a man she believed to be a former Foreigner drummer. When does playing on your natural li...

The AP reports that 18-year-old Wisconsin resident Anthony Stancl has been accused of "posing as a girl on Facebook, tricking at least 31 male classmates into sending him naked photos of themselves and then blackmailing some for sex acts." Stancl was charged on Wednesday with "five counts of child e...

Many families have some kind of familiar morning routine. The parents might get up, get the kids ready for school or the day's activities, strap them into their car seats and drive off. The Miami Herald reported that one Florida family's early morning routine turned into tragedy this past Sunday whe...

A Kentucky high school football coach has been indicted for reckless homicide in the heat stroke related death of one of his players. While private litigation often follows heat related sports deaths, the criminal charge against coach Stinson is rare. The AP reports that Thursday a grand jury indict...

Only one letter removed from the innocuous "texting" everyone is familiar with, the word "sexting" has been popping up in various news stories lately. In its various forms, sexting is the transmission of suggestive material via text messages. Of course, there are wide degrees of suggestive material,...

Employees of Blackwater Worldwide, a U.S. contractor hired by the Department of State to provide personal security services in Iraq, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on manslaughter charges. They are accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad at the Nisur Square traffic circle o...

Hate crimes in the U.S. saw a slight decline overall in 2007, but crimes against gay and lesbian victims increased over the previous year, according to statistics released Monday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In its report Hate Crime Statistics, 2007, the FBI analyzes 7,624 hate crim...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld a federal law which, in part, makes it a crime to promote or advertise child pornography, whether or not the material actually exists. The "pandering and solicitation" provision of the 2003 federal law prohibits the advertisement, promotion, presentation, dist...