WASHINGTON (AP) — A seemingly divided Supreme Court wrestled today with whether teenagers can be locked away forever for their crimes. ...more

November 9, 2009

John Allen Muhammad, one of the snipers who terrorized the Washington, D.C., area seven years ago, may have shot a man on a Clearwater golf course, but authorities are skeptical whether they can prove it. The hurdle in getting the evidence is promising Lee Boyd Malvo, the accomplice in the shootings, immunity from prosecution, police say. ...more

November 9, 2009

Seven years ago, the captured "Beltway Snipers" - John Allen Muhammad, 41, and his 17-year old accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo - were in federal custody, accused of 16 shootings and 10 murders. They had set out to create a reign of terror in the Washington area to match the terrorist attacks of the year before. ...more

November 9, 2009

A Jacksonville baby sitter faces life in prison after being convicted of murdering a 2-year-old child by beating her with a flyswatter. ...more

September 4, 2009

Gov. Bill Richardson signed legislation Wednesday repealing New Mexico's death penalty, making it the second state to ban executions since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. ...more

March 18, 2009

The New Mexico Legislature has voted to repeal the death penalty. ...more

March 13, 2009

A local man was sentenced to two life sentences Monday after previously being found guilty of two counts of sexual battery on a person less than 12 years of age. ...more

February 25, 2009

A plea agreement was withdrawn Thursday and one of the men charged in the November 2007 death of Samuel Tiller will now face a jury. ...more

January 30, 2009

A local man was found guilty this week by a Highlands County jury on two counts of sexual battery on a person less than 12 years of age. ...more

January 18, 2009

Lillo Brancato, who played a bumbling aspiring mobster on "The Sopranos," was cleared Monday in New York of second-degree murder in the shooting death of an off-duty policeman. ...more

December 23, 2008