Believing that Satan wanted her to drown her five children, Andrea Yates knew killing them was wrong and therefore wasn't insane as defined by law, a forensic psychiatrist testified Friday during her second murder trial. Complete Story
A military judge on Friday denied a motion to dismiss a rape charge against an Air Force Academy graduate, leaving the case where it was a year ago when he halted it because of a therapist's refusal to turn over the accuser's medical records.
Elaine Doherty was the typical patient to whom drug maker Merck & Co. marketed its former blockbuster painkiller Vioxx: a senior citizen with arthritis and other ailments common among older folks, including heart disease.
Merck & Co. won a crucial legal victory on Thursday, when jurors decided that the drugmaker's Vioxx painkiller, now the subject of at least 16,000 product liability lawsuits, did not cause a 68-year-old woman's heart attack.
Andrea Yates knew that drowning her five children in the bathtub was wrong, although she thought she was sending them to heaven to protect them from herself and Satan, a forensic psychiatrist testified Thursday during her second murder trial.
Six former inmates of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, insisted Wednesday on their innocence in closing arguments of their trial in Paris on charges of links to terrorism.
Merck & Co. won a crucial legal victory on Thursday, when jurors decided that the drugmaker's Vioxx painkiller, now the subject of more than 13,000 product liability lawsuits, was not responsible for the heart attack of a 68-year-old woman.
A judge in the trial of an Air Force Academy graduate charged with rape demanded to know Wednesday why medical records of his accuser had not been obtained as he ordered more than a year ago.
A sheriff's deputy who overheard Andrea Yates' interview with a jail psychiatrist the day after she drowned her five children in the bathtub testified Wednesday that she said she decided to do it the night before and knew it was wrong.
A Bosnian immigrant was convicted Wednesday on charges he concealed his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre so he could get into the United States but was acquitted of other charges.
A former state senator and lobbyist was placed on probation for two years and fined $20,000 Tuesday for lying to a grand jury investigating corruption in former Gov. George Ryan's administration.
Jurors in the seventh trial over withdrawn painkiller Vioxx began deliberating Wednesday morning over the plaintiff's claim that the former Merck & Co. drug caused her 2004 heart attack.
The defense in Andrea Yates' murder trial rested Tuesday after her best friend tearfully told jurors that the woman who drowned her five children in the bathtub "misses them terribly."
Five Muslim teenagers appeared in court Monday accused of involvement in a thwarted terrorist plot that prosecutors say was aimed at disrupting this city's millennial celebration last year.
A videotaped jail interview played for jurors Monday showed Andrea Yates weeping after she told a psychiatrist why she drowned her five children in a bathtub.
The judge called a two-week recess in the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, hoping to end a boycott of the trial by the former Iraqi leader and his lawyers. But he warned that if they won't come back, court-appointed lawyers will make Saddam's closing arguments.
Saddam Hussein and his lawyers announced they would boycott his trial even as its final phase began Monday, saying the court was unfair and demanding better security after the slaying of a senior member of the defense team.
Nineteen alleged al-Qaida members accused of plotting to assassinate Westerners and blow up a hotel used by Americans were acquitted Saturday by a judge who also exonerated some of fighting U.S. troops in Iraq.
The convictions of Mayor Richard M. Daley's former patronage chief and three other one-time officials on federal charges are guaranteed to cast a shadow over next year's election, experts say.
The case of a former Army private charged with slaying and raping an Iraqi woman and killing her family will be presented to a grand jury this month.
A psychiatrist testified Friday that she warned Andrea Yates not to have any more children after she tried to commit suicide twice within months of having her fourth child in 1999.
A former top aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley and three other one-time city workers were convicted Thursday in a scheme to load the city payroll with campaign workers.
A former Army private charged with raping an Iraqi woman and killing her and her family entered a plea of not guilty through his public defenders Thursday.
Nearly two months before Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family bathtub, her two oldest sons rushed into the living room and asked their grandmother why their mom was filling the tub with water, the older woman tes
The abduction of 22-year-old Dru Sjodin from a shopping center parking lot and the discovery of her body five months later, after an emotional search, has led to major revisions of sex offender laws in two states and to North Dakota's first federal death penalty case.