The need for such authority to order someone quarantined emerged as lesson No. 1 from the case of the Atlanta lawyer who went to Europe despite having a dangerous form of tuberculosis .
Police arrested the owner of a private hospital in eastern Pakistan and three doctors after they were implicated in the illegal trade and transplant of kidneys, police said Saturday.
A woman whose malnourished, developmentally disabled 22-year-old daughter was found wearing only a T-shirt and four soiled diapers has pleaded no contest to second-degree abuse of a vulnerable adult.
The mother of a woman accused of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves tried to bribe a victim's relative to make the case go away, prosecutors said.
Pandemonium breaks out when spectators get entirely too close to the implosion of the New Haven Coliseum.
A man accused of dressing as a firefighter and sexually assaulting a co-worker in her apartment bought items online for the attack, including firefighter's gear and chemicals to make smoke bombs, prosecutors said Thursday.
The office of Attorney General Roy Cooper will announce that he is dismissing all charges against three Duke Lacrosse players, ABC News has learned from sources close to the case. The reasons that will be cited for the dismissal are not yet known.
Shah, 44, pleaded guilty to conspiring from October 2003 through May 2005 to provide martial arts and hand-to-hand combat with weapons training to fighters knowing that al-Qaida was engaged in terrorism .
Too many people coast along in their careers like bored students, getting by with mediocre marks - even though they are capable of scoring straight As, Cork, the president of Toronto-based career coaching company, says.
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A prosecutor said Friday he will seek the death penalty against a man accused of being the Baseline Killer, a serial predator who terrorized residents here for more than a year.
Defense lawyers want the word "terrorist" banned as too inflammatory in the U.S. trial of Jose Padilla and two other men charged with conspiring to aid Islamist extremists overseas. The word conjures up visions of someone with a bomb belt blowing up himself and others in a crowded cafe, Jeanne Baker, an attorney representing co-defendant
Two senators who watched Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confess to planning the Sept. 11 attacks and other plots said Friday that his allegations of mistreatment by U.S. captors should be taken seriously and investigated.
woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to swinging her 4-week-old son like a bat to hit her boyfriend during a fight, fracturing the infant's skull in the process.
Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor in Libya accused of making false claims of torture have pleaded not guilty to charges of slander.
Frustrated with buying a new CD and then spending 20 minutes in the parking lot trying to get through the shrink-wrap so that you can actually listen to it on the way home?
Christopher R. Henkel and Lee. N. Shobe, both Iraq war veterans, entered their pleas Wednesday in U.S. District Court to a single count each of stealing government property and are scheduled to go on trial April 16, according to the clerk's office.
Shocking Admission Of Lying By Government In Ramos/Compean Case Under questioning by Rep. John Culberson, a Department of Homeland Security representative admitted that his department did NOT have evidence to back up a number of claims made to members of Congress last fall to bolster its case against imprisoned agents Ramos and Compean, including:
Libby: Don't Release Grand Jury Tapes

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald plans to play hours of recordings of that testimony in court next week to bolster his case that Libby lied and obstructed the investigation. "Scooter" Libby is fighting to keep his grand jury testimony about the leak of a CIA operative's name from being released and broadcast in the media.
Federal prosecutors are preparing to seek indictments against a former top CIA official and a San Diego defense contractor linked to the bribery scandal that sent former U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham to prison, two government officials familiar with the investigation said Wednesday.
Not all lies are created equal. It is understood that there is a chasm of importance between little white lies and big black ones. Most would agree that lying about a consensual sexual affair, even by the president, is of significantly lesser concern than lying about the proliferation of nuclear weapons as an excuse to take the nation to war. H
Journalists will take center stage at the CIA leak trial as Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald begins calling reporters as witnesses.
White House bigwigs are called to testify in defense of former Vice Presidential aide 'Scooter' Libby. Among them, are presidential advisor Karl Rove and White House communications director Dan Bartlett.
Former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's perjury trial continues to expose the inner workings of the White House media machine.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Prosecutors call Thomas Lubanga a Congolese warlord whose militias plucked children off the streets as they walked to and from school and forced them to fight and die in a brutal rebel conflict.
Second day of the Scooter Libby trial: Ted Wells, the defendant's attorney, continued challenging the memories of the prosecution's witnesses to confuse jurors. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald called first witness, Marc Grossman, who was No. 3 at State Dept. Libby's previous testimony refuted.
Opening statements are heard in the trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff. Libby is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in the Valerie Plame Wilson leak investigation.
The perjury trial of former White House official Lewis "Scooter" Libby begins on Tuesday, but the investigation has already laid bare the Bush administration's internal workings and damaged the independence of the news media.
The former music director of a church where former President Bush once worshipped pleaded guilty on Monday to possessing child pornography.
Steve Case, who brought the Internet into millions of homes with AOL, is wagering tens of millions of dollars that consumers will eventually pay about $100 a year to subscribe to premium services on his new Web site. In launching RevolutionHealth.com today, Mr. Case says he aims to transform a "broken industry by putting health care back ...
"Fool me a couple of dozen times, and shame on me -- but also shame on what passes for journalism on television. This truism comes to mind after my appearance on "Paula Zahn Now" on CNN this week to discuss the Duke rape case. I'm not naive about these kinds of shows -- which I know are not really about journalism but about..."







