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A judge in California has ruled that a 13-year-old boy who shot and killed his neo-Nazi father will serve up to ten years in a state juvenile facility, according to the Associated Press.
A federal appeals court on Thursday put the brakes on a judge’s ruling that ordered New York City’s police department to reform its controversial stop-and-frisk policy and assigned the case to a different judge.The 2nd U.S.
A new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) documents an unprecedented series of legislative initiatives in 2011 and 2012 that aimed to undermine worker rights and lower labor standards for both union and nonunion workers.
Federal investigators will probe the strange death of Georgia teen Kendrick Johnson, whose body was found rolled up in a gym mat at his high school in January, they announced Thursday.U.S. Attorney Michael Moore said in a news conference in Macon, Ga.
An octogenarian jewel thief with a criminal past said to stretch five decades is in custody in California on suspicion of swiping a ring worth more than $22,000 from a jewelry store, police said.
In 2013, it's difficult to believe that in many parts of the country, it's legal to fire workers for their sexual orientation or gender identity. In fact, 52% of the LGBTQ population lives in states that do not prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Studies show that more than one in five LGBTQ workers report discrimination on the job.
A Florida woman serving 20 years in prison for firing a shot into the wall during a fight with her husband will get a new trial in March and can argue next week to be released on bail, a judge ruled Thursday.
It has been a half-dozen years since the shooting at Virginia Tech left 33 people, including the gunman, dead on the school’s campus. The legal proceedings stemming from the massacre finally reached an end in a Richmond, Va. courtroom Thursday.
Sure, working families have been under attack for years, but people across the country are rolling up their sleeves and fighting back to protect workers’ rights and raise living standards for everyone. See 10 ways they’re doing it after the jump.
