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The Florida bar is investigating a complaint against George Zimmerman’s high-profile defense lawyer, Mark O’Mara, in connection with the case, a spokeswoman told NBC News on Monday.But state bar officials wouldn’t disclose the exact nature of the grievance.

An Ohio man was held on $1 million bail Monday in the strangulation of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found in a trash dump.Jerrod E.

SANTA FE, New Mexico — A New Mexico high school teacher who questioned an African American student's decision to dress up as Santa Claus on the grounds that the mythical North Pole figure was white has been put on paid administrative leave, an official said on Monday.

WASHINGTON — An association of American scholars has voted for an academic boycott of Israeli colleges and universities in protest against Israeli policies towards the Palestinians, the group said on Monday.

Parts of the Midwest and the Northeast can't catch a break from wintry weather — even though winter hasn't officially started — as a fast-moving low-pressure system moving in Monday from Canada brought more dangerously low temperatures and new snow on the tail of the weekend's major winter storm.

Spacewalk or space delivery? That's the question facing NASA as space station flight controllers try to revive a crippled cooling loop. Half of the International Space Station's cooling system shut down last Wednesday because of a bad valve that made the line too cold.

The parents of Colorado school gunman Karl Pierson said Monday that they are "shattered" by the shooting and don't understand why he critically wounded a classmate and then killed himself.

Antibacterial soaps don’t seem to add any germ-killing power to plain old soap and water and in fact may have some health risks, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday.

A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency’s gathering of data on all telephone calls made in the United States appears to violate the Constitution’s protection against unreasonable searches.The judge, Richard Leon of U.S.

Harvard University gave the all-clear Monday afternoon for four campus buildings that were evacuated after unconfirmed reports of explosives.Students were just showing up for final exams when the school, acting on an email threat, cleared out the Thayer Hall dormitory and three academic buildings.