Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. Recently, Emily Bazelon talked with ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A church deacon has been sentenced to life in prison for trafficking a teenage girl in Decatur, authorities announced Thursday. According to the DeKalb County District Attorney’s ...

KENDALL COUNTY, Ill. (WGN) – An Oswego man has been sentenced to natural life in prison for sexually assaulting several children who were members of his own family. The Kendall County State’s Attorney ...

It’s an age-old question. Was there ever life on Mars? Earth just got closer to an answer — maybe. A rover built and managed in Southern California, with a mission to understand the Red Planet has ...

A former U.S. soldier will spend the remainder of his life in prison for sexually abusing two boys at Georgia’s Fort Stewart more than eight years ago, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Austin ...

WATERLOO — A Waterloo man has died in prison while serving time for allegedly robbing his ex-girlfriend in 2022. Kevin Paul Walker died at 3:10 p.m. Thursday in a hospice room at the Iowa Medical and ...

The couple is accused of cruel indignity after cruel indignity. Chaining a girl to a toilet. Confining her to a dog crate. Holding the teen captive for six years inside a South Jersey home that ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- A Rogers woman who kidnapped her kids from foster care and took them across the country in a pickup in 2023 was sentenced to prison Tuesday for stalking her... Ron Wood has been a ...

Erin Patterson, who murdered three relatives with poisonous mushrooms, has been given a life prison sentence by the supreme court in Australia. Patterson will likely spend the rest of her life in ...

A Frederick County judge on Monday sentenced a man to life in prison, plus 20 years, for raping and killing a woman in her Brunswick home early last year. Juwaun Terry Stewart, 18, pleaded guilty on ...

JERUSALEM/CAIRO/NEW YORK, Sept 7 (Reuters) - There is a "narrow window" to prevent famine from spreading further in Gaza, a top U.N. official said on Sunday, calling on Israel to allow unimpeded aid ...