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A brazen TJ Lane wore a T-shirt reading "KILLER" and flipped off family members of the victims of the Chardon High School shooting at his sentencing Tuesday morning. Lane walked into the courtroom in a blue button-down shirt before sitting down and revealing the white T-shirt with letters handwritten in black marker.

Graphic sexual photos of Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander posing naked on Alexander's bed just minutes before Arias stabbed and shot him to death were shown to the jury in her murder trial today.

Last week, Iowa’s all-male high court upheld the legality of terminating a female employee because her boss found her too attractive.

The withdrawal of murder charges against 270 South African miners for the killings of 34 co-workers by police followed intense public pressure - including a report that the victims were shot execution-style or crushed by police vehicles.

His hair dyed orange-red and a dazed look on his face, the man accused of going on a deadly shooting rampage at the opening of the new Batman movie appeared Monday in court for the first time.

George Zimmerman’s not guilty plea on a second-degree murder charge in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin was accepted Tuesday afternoon at Sanford, Fla., court arraignment.

One of two men accused of driving around a US city with their friend's corpse in the back seat thought the dead man was just drunk, a court hears.

The next time Lindsay Lohan comes to court she may need to bring a toothbrush. A tough-talking Superior Court Judge Keith Schwartz told the troubled actress Wednesday that the only way he'll accept a plea bargain in ...

A French court found former Vivendi chief executive Jean-Marie Messier guilty of misappropriation of company funds and divulging misleading information when he headed Europe's biggest entertainment group.

A Massachusetts court Thursday added $81 million in punitive damages to $71 million in compensatory damages it had already awarded to the family of a woman who died of lung cancer.