A judge has sentenced "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis to time served and a year of probation for filing false income tax returns. ...more

November 7, 2009

An Arkansas man's finger-twisting handshake with a co-worker in North Carolina has left him facing a half-million-dollar legal judgment. ...more

March 5, 2009

"Dark Knight" indeed. Christian Bale can be heard in newly surfaced audio delivering a long, profanity-laced verbal thrashing to a cinematographer and anyone who tried to calm him down on the set of the upcoming "Terminator Salvation." ...more

February 4, 2009

The children of Coretta Scott King and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. faced off in an Atlanta courtroom Tuesday in a dispute over their mother's personal papers that could derail a lucrative book deal. ...more

October 15, 2008

The fees that cell phone carriers charge customers who break service contracts took a big hit in a California courtroom when a judge said such charges by Sprint Nextel Corp. likely violate state law. ...more

July 30, 2008

A 23-year-old woman is accused of stabbing to death a pregnant woman, cutting her unborn child out of her womb and trying to pass the baby off as her own. ...more

July 2, 2008

More than a third of the 143 million pounds of California beef recalled last week went to school lunch programs, with at least 20 million pounds consumed, officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday. ...more

February 22, 2008

Heidi Klum wants to help Britney Spears. ...more

February 18, 2008

Authorities said Saturday that they think a hiker who disappeared in the northern Georgia woods on New Year's Day is dead, and they charged the man who was reportedly last seen with her with kidnapping. ...more

January 6, 2008

Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien will return to late-night TV with fresh episodes on Jan. 2, two months after the writers' strike sent them into repeats, NBC said Monday. ...more

December 18, 2007