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A 14-year-old girl may be forced to register as a sex offender and may face up to 17 years of jail because she posted over 30 sexually explicit photos of herself on the social networking site, Myspace. Under the restrictions put in place by “Megan’s Law,” the girl can be charged with possession and distribution of child pornography...

To address the numerous complaints that have accumulated during the Bush Administration, concerning violations of labor laws, the United States Department of Labor is hiring 150 investigators

Since 1997, the students who graduate from Texas high schools in the top 10 percent of their class are granted automatic admission to Texas public universities, including the prestigious Unive

Though the final determination is months in the making, investigators in the private plane crash, which fell to the earth in sight of the Butte, Montana airport killing all fourteen passengers, are considering icing of the plane as a possible cause of the airplane accident.  According to reports of the weather conditions just prior to the crash and the inordinate loss of control of the plane leading to a nosedive...

When a Pennsylvania lab technician lashed out against her husband’s mistress, she did not expect to be charged with a terrorist act. Carol Bond stole potassium dichromate from a lab where she worked as a microbiologist. She then applied the chemical, which is deadly if ingested, to her victim’s car door handle and exhaust pipe...

Since 2006, hundreds of Florida homeowners have gone through a litany of repairs and medical problems as the result of an unknown sulfurous odor, often described as the smell of rotten eggs, emanating from their homes.  The fumes of this odor, which is possibly iron disulfide, hydrogen sulfide, carbonyl sulfide, sulfur dioxide, or carbon disulfide, have been directly linked the defective Chinese-manufactured drywall...

When her son was killed by a drunk driver, Michigan resident Debbie Moskwa went on a mission to change Kentucky’s laws. The man who caused the accident, which occurred shortly after the Kentucky Derby in 2002, was released from prison within a year of the accident.

Investigators at the site of the plane crash in a Butte, Montana cemetery are still attempting to piece together the evidence available surrounding the plane crash that killed fourteen individuals.  According to the NTSB, the private plane...

Nevada State Police will begin cracking down, this month, on drivers who have illegally tinted windows. The Department of Public Safety will supply the law enforcement officials with special devices, which will allow them to measure the degree of tint that a car has.

In the state of Texas, schoolchildren in the public school system have a moment in their day, where they are required to pray, reflect or remain quiet.

A woman from North Carolina has announced that she will take Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda for court over the 2005 movie, “Monster-in-law.”

Well-known disc jockey DJ AM, whose given name is Adam Goldstein, has filed suit following the highly publicized plane crash last September that killed four members of his entourage, as well as injured him and fellow musician Travis Barker...

A black man in Nassau County was recently beaten within an inch of his life. The police charged the man who attacked, but did not say that he had committed a hate crime.

Police Departments around the country are joyously welcoming additional revenue from the Obama administration’s stimulus package.

In a highly controversial move, the United States government is thinking again about making radical changes to patent law.

Following a fatal fire, which tore through a co-op complex in New York, several counties are considering changes to the necessary regulations on fire hydrants.

One of Obama’s transition team officials is now saying that a mining law, which has been around for 137 years should have some changes made to it.

On Thursday, a new law will go into effect in Washington state.

Though reports have come back from Cuba, saying that the Guantanamo Bay prison- held by the United States as a detainment facility for suspected terrorists, is being well-run, President Obama se

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court ruled that those individuals who have been convicted of crimes related to domestic violence are no longer allowed to carry or own firearms. The passing of this ruling has been the work of several agencies and organizations, which promote non-violence, gun control and domestic harmony.