A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred Arizona from using a state law to prosecute an online merchant who sells shirts that list names of thousands of troops killed in Iraq.
For more than a year, Jose Luis Nazario Jr. has waited for his day in federal court to face allegations he killed unarmed detainees in Iraq -- the first time such charges have been brought under a federal law that allows the prosecution of former military service members for war crimes.
The German government on Wednesday approved a law that would allow it to block moves by foreign investors to take large stakes in German companies, if it concludes that they endanger the country's interests.
Two longtime Vermont activists have filed a complaint alleging that independent gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina is violating the state's campaign finance law.
A convicted rapist admitted to a 1998 murder and was sentenced to a long prison term Monday as another man once blamed for the crime called him a coward who ruined lives.
Peru's government declared a state of emergency Monday in remote jungle regions where Indian groups are blocking highways and oil and gas installations to protest a law that makes it easier to sell their lands.
Democratic Gov. John Lynch believes wearing seat belts saves lives, but isn't sure a mandatory seat belt law for adults will work -- a hot topic for years in a state that doesn't require adults to be belted.
A federal judge says the state of New Hampshire must reimburse the group that challenged a law that would have required doctors to notify parents before performing abortions on minors.
The sister of a man who disappeared in California in 1985 and is presumed dead demanded yesterday that Clark Rockefeller shed his aliases and explain what happened to her brother and sister-in-law.
With young motorists losing their driver's licenses like never before under a tougher state law targeting teen speeders, state hearing officers are increasingly overwhelmed with desperate youths pleading to keep their licenses.
Nicknamed "Yolanda's Law" after a Plymouth teenager who eloquently testified before legislators about her struggles with bipolar disorder, a bill aimed at improving mental health care for an estimated 100,000 Massachusetts children now awaits Governor Deval Patrick's signature.
The gay marriage fight in Massachusetts may not be over after all. Opponents of same-sex marriages have filed paperwork for a ballot question that would repeal a new law that nullified a 1913 statute that prevented gay and lesbian couples from getting married here if their union wouldn't be legal in their home state.
