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A former Las Vegas-area Democratic elected official was sentenced Wednesday to serve at least 28 years in Nevada state prison for killing an investigative journalist who wrote articles critical of his conduct in office two years ago

The extended family of Erik and Lyle Menendez will advocate for the brothers' release from prison following the 1989 killings of their parents in Beverly Hills

More than a dozen family members of the convicted Menendez brothers are calling for their release from prison following the 1989 killings of their parents

More than a dozen family members of the convicted Menendez brothers are calling for their release from prison following the 1989 killings of their parents

A Texas man who could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome is awaiting a decision on his request for clemency from a state board

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied a request for clemency for a man who this week could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied a request for clemency for a man who this week could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome

Some of the lowest-paid health care workers in California are getting a pay bump under a state law

Mexico’s former public security chief is set to be sentenced in a U.S. court after being convicted of taking bribes to aid drug traffickers

The hidden annex where the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank hid from Nazi occupiers during World War II is heading to New York