Same-sex couples in California will have to wait a while to find out if they have regained the right to get married, after the backers of the state's gay marriage ban petitioned a federal appeals court to review a split decision by three of its judges that struck down Proposition 8. […]
Identity thieves have regained the upper hand, suggests a new survey released Wednesday by fraud research firm Javelin Strategy & Research. The firm's annual survey of 5,000 consumers suggests a rise in the rate of ID theft during 2011, reversing a drop in identity-related that was found in last year's survey. The main cause of the new increa […]
A woman has become the first victim of bullets flying across the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, into El Paso, Texas, the Associated Press reported. […]
A state administrative judge has ordered the revocation of a Kansas doctor's license over her referrals of young patients to the late Dr. George Tiller for late-term abortions. […]
Jeffrey Maxwell, former vice president of his local Kiwanis chapter, faces up to life in prison after being found guilty of kidnapping his former neighbor and torturing her for 12 days. […]
An after-school fishing program is helping kids from low-income areas learn the thrill of the catch while also teaching them how to avoid peer pressure. NBC's Mark Potter reports. […]
The sheriff of a small Georgia county resigned Tuesday after he and his son were released on bond on federal charges of abusing inmates and lying to the FBI to cover it up. […]
Mustafa Elogbi is by nature a private person. But when he finally arrived home in Oregon after an ordeal at the hands of U.S. security officials that cost him six weeks and thousands of dollars, he chose the spotlight. […]