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A Lynwood, Ill., police officer accused of killing one man and wounding two others in a two-state shooting spree was released from jail Tuesday evening after his alibi was verified, NBC affiliate WMAQ of Chicago reported.

The United States apologized for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which government medical researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan inmates with syphilis.

Actress Lindsay Lohan is sent back to jail, without bail, after failing a court-ordered drug test.

The first woman to be executed in the U.S. in five years has been put to death in Virginia for arranging the killings of her husband and a stepson over a $250,000 insurance payment.

Forty-one-year-old Teresa Lewis died by injection at 9:13 p.m. Thursday. She became the first woman executed in Virginia in nearly a century. Supporters and relatives of the victims watched her execution at Greensville Correctional Center.

Another warrant, another court hearing for Lindsay Lohan. Lohan has been ordered to appear at a hearing on Friday after a judge issued an arrest warrant for failing a drug test less than a month after she was released from inpatient rehab.

Per the terms of her probation in her DUI case as laid out last month by Judge Elden S. Fox, Lohan was "advised that any positive or missed test will result in 30-day jail sentence."

A device designed to control unruly inmates by blasting them with a beam of intense energy that causes a burning sensation is drawing heat from civil rights groups who fear it could cause serious injury and is "tantamount to torture."

Philip Markoff, the man accused of killing a masseuse and robbing a prostitute he met on Craigslist, was found dead in a Boston jail, officials say ...

Lindsay Lohan has been released from jail, but she's not exactly a free woman.

Police were using helicopters and dogs Saturday to search for three convicted murderers who escaped from a northwest Arizona prison, kidnapped two semi-truck drivers at gunpoint and used the big rig to flee.