KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - The family of a murdered Kansas abortion doctor said on Tuesday they would not reopen his clinic, which was one of only a few in the United States willing to provide late-term abortions. George Tiller, 67, ...Read More
JEFFERSON CITY | A teenager accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbor should be sent to a psychiatric hospital because she shows signs of severe depression and anxiety, her attorney said. A judge had not approved the move Friday, though a draft ...Read More
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A teenager accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbor should be sent to a psychiatric hospital because she shows signs of severe depression and anxiety, her attorney said.
A judge had not approved the move Friday, though a ...Read More
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—A teenager accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbor was sent to a mental hospital after her attorney said she showed signs of severe depression and anxiety.
A judge ordered 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante to be taken to the Fulton State ...Read More
WASHINGTON - The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. A top Obama administration official on Thursday ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Nov. 20) - The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. A top Obama administration official ...Read More
Washington -- The fight over federal funding for abortion moved to the Senate on Thursday as opponents targeted provisions that are not as restrictive as one written by a Michigan lawmaker into the version passed by the House.
Provisions that don't ...Read More
37-year-old Jamar Pinkney Sr. is facing a first degree murder charge in the Monday shooting death of his son, 15-year-old Jamar Pinkney Jr., in a field in Detroit's Highland Park.
The incident was sparked by allegations that the younger Jamar Pinkney ...Read More
The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
A top Obama administration official on Thursday praised the ...Read More
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.—A man charged with raping and killing a 5-year-old North Carolina girl was expected in court Friday, a day after authorities revealed what they believed happened to her in her final days. Authorities said Thursday that Shaniya Davis was sexually ...Read More
Fayetteville police charged a 29-year-old man with first-degree murder Thursday in the death of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis, the missing girl found under the kudzu on a rural highway earlier this week. A medical examiner's preliminary report shows the girl killed, her ...Read More
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A man already accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl faces new charges that he raped and asphyxiated her, police said Thursday. Mario McNeill is being charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape of a child, Fayetteville ...Read More
A man already accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl faces new charges that he raped and asphyxiated her, police said Thursday. Mario McNeill is being charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape of a child, Fayetteville Police Chief Tom ...Read More
A Philadelphia jury has convicted a confessed cop killer of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a police officer on Halloween 2007. Twenty-three-year-old John Lewis was found guilty Thursday afternoon of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 54-year-old Officer Chuck Cassidy. ...Read More
Alyssa Bustamante, a 15-year-old of Missouri, was indicted today on a charge of first-degree murder of her neighbor, 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten.
Jon Beetem, the circuit judge in rural Cole County, ruled that Bustamante had been certified as an adult after he ...Read More
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Lawmakers in Veracruz made it Mexico's 17th state to pass legislation declaring life begins at conception, then adopted a proposal that requires Congress to consider amending the constitution to outlaw abortion. A majority of the country's 32 ...Read More
A police officer testified today that the 15-year-old girl accused of killing her 9-year-old neighbor confessed to the crime, saying that she did it so she would "know what it felt like to kill someone." Alyssa Bustamante was indicted today in ...Read More
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri grand jury has indicted a 15-year-old on a charge of first-degree murder in the slaying of her 9-year-old neighbor. Alyssa Bustamante is accused of killing Elizabeth Olten by strangling the girl, cutting her throat ...Read More
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A judge on Wednesday ordered that a 15-year-old girl must stand trial as an adult for the slaying of a 9-year-old neighbor, whose disappearance last month touched off a two-day search.
Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem ...Read More
A 15-year-old girl was ordered to stand trial as an adult for the murder of a 9-year-old Missouri girl, a judge ruled. Elizabeth Olten's disappearance last month on her way home from a friend's house touched off a two-day search. Cole County ...Read More
CAMDEN, N.J.—A New Jersey high school student claims in a federal lawsuit that administrators violated her religious and free-speech rights by prohibiting her participation in a silent abortion protest. The girl, identified in court papers as C.H., says she asked Bridgeton ...Read More
