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Edward Kovari’s 18-day ordeal began Sept. 12, 2016, when some guys in a van showed up to take him from a jail in Virginia to Texas, where he was wanted on charges that he had stolen a car. The trip ...

Defense attorneys say evidence was withheld that would have helped prove the innocence of a southwest Missouri man convicted of killing his wife after her Christmas Day 2006 death initially was ruled a suicide. At issue is testing on the ...

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley hesitated when asked about his party’s core message to voters. “That message is being worked on,” the New York congressman said in an interview this past week. “We’re doing everything we can to simplify ...

Missouri became the final state to create a prescription drug-monitoring program after Republican Gov. Eric Greitens signed an executive order Monday aimed at combatting a scourge that killed more than 900 residents last year. The monitoring program could be operating ...

The Trump administration is shutting down the least restrictive alternative to detention available to asylum-seekers who have entered the U.S. illegally, The Associated Press has learned. Immigration activists consider the move a callous insult to migrants fleeing traumatic violence and ...

If prosecutors want the building blocks for a claim that President Donald Trump interfered with a federal investigation, legal experts say fired FBI Director James Comey has handed those over by recounting details of interactions that could show the president ...

A lawyer on Wednesday asked for a new trial for a Wisconsin man convicted in a case profiled in the “Making a Murderer” Netflix series. Steven Avery’s conviction was based on planted evidence and false testimony, attorney Kathleen Zellner says ...

President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the FBI is a white-collar defense lawyer with a strong law enforcement background. Senate Republicans and some Democrats praised the nomination. Trump surprised Washington early Wednesday by tweeting that he intended to nominate Christopher ...

John Taylor didn’t like the idea of being forced by the Federal Aviation Administration to register his drones. The requirement was “authoritarian,” the Maryland attorney said, and wouldn’t deter reckless fliers. So the aviation law novice — he works in ...

Two people were sent to jail during the trial of North Carolina church minister charged in the beating of a gay congregant, but neither was on trial in the case. The jury was in its second day of deliberations Tuesday ...

A teenager charged with using text messages to encourage her boyfriend to kill himself played a “sick game” with another person’s life, a prosecutor said Tuesday. In dozens of text messages and telephone calls, Michelle Carter, then 17, repeatedly urged ...