Jan Crawford Greenburg

It's a vacancy no one is clamoring to fill, even though the winner is likely to become famous--what with the television shows and newspaper articles and, of course, the photographs...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in a controversial 1991 police shooting case in which a Hoffman Estates officer was accused of using excessive force when she...

Even before jurors declared O.J. Simpson not guilty, his murder trial had produced a verdict by many Americans on the nation's criminal justice system. Whether it was the nine months...

The number of teenagers arrested for violent crimes has "soared" in the last decade and is expected to double in the next 15 years if current trends continue, a Justice...

The predictions were dire five years ago, when President George Bush signed landmark civil rights legislation designed to protect Americans with disabilities. Critics warned the new law would result in...

When federal regulators decided to try to derail the planned Microsoft Corp.-Intuit Inc. merger, they started a fight over more than just another piece of personal computer software. Instead, legal...

Delivering a sharp rebuke to Congress for horning in on state law-enforcement efforts, the Supreme Court said Wednesday that the federal government exceeded its authority by making it illegal to...

A top psychiatric consultant to the FBI warns that if officials react too harshly against right-wing militants, they'll "get a lot of agents killed, there's no question about that." Dr....

With affirmative action emerging as a dominant political issue, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand two lower-court victories for white employees who challenged programs to accelerate advancement of...

In yet another twist in the lengthy legal battle over the boy called Richard, one of the experts who was supposed to help ease the custody transition process appears to...