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"Caleb's Crossing" (Penguin Group), by Geraldine Brooks: The latest novel from Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks is a fascinating glimpse of domestic life on 17th-century Martha's Vineyard as the author weaves a tale based on the life of the first American Indian to graduate from Harvard College.
"Stories I Only Tell My Friends" (Henry Holt), by Rob Lowe: Imagine a 10-year-old Rob Lowe boldly knocking on the door of Liza Minnelli's suite in a Columbus, Ohio, hotel.
"The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost: A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure" (Bantam), by Rachel Friedman: Maybe it's an age thing. But do packed bookshelves really need another travelogue-cum-memoir written by a middle-class, white American young woman who is trying to find herself?
A conservative radio talk show host has sued an Islamic civil rights group for copyright infringement over the organization's use of a portion of his show in which he called the Quran a "book of hate."
An atheist pleaded with a federal appeals court to remove the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" from U.S. currency, saying the references disrespect his religious beliefs.
A conservative radio talk show host sued an Islamic civil rights group on Monday for copyright infringement over the organization's use of a portion of his show in which he called the Quran a "book of hate."
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that collecting DNA evidence from nonviolent drug offenders doesn't violate their privacy rights.
An electronic privacy group challenging President Bush's domestic spying program scored a minor victory after a judge ordered the federal government to release information about lobbying efforts by telecommunications companies to protect them from prosecution.
The state Supreme Court will seek an amendment to the California constitution that would change the death penalty appeals process to help ease the court's backlog of cases, the chief justice said Monday.
The state Supreme Court will seek an amendment to the California constitution that would change the death penalty appeals process to help ease the court's backlog of cases, the chief justice said.
For veterans of Ramadi, it seems like a different place and a different war.
The women received their first paychecks a few weeks ago — about $500 for a month's work as police officers. They paid rent, bought food, wiped out debts. But the seemingly simple transaction has left at least one woman in fear for her life, another threatened with divorce.
Gabriel Herrera was drawn to the National Guard by the poster of an infantryman rappelling from a Blackhawk helicopter — and by the fact he was unlikely to see combat.
Two members of the U.S.-led coalition force were killed and 40 others were wounded in an attack at Camp Victory, a sprawling base near Baghdad's airport that houses the headquarters of U.S. forces in Iraq, the military said Thursday.
Sixty prisoners, 10 of them youths, raised their hands Wednesday and swore to live a peaceful life. In return, U.S. authorities set them free.
An official Iraqi investigation into a deadly shooting involving Blackwater USA security guards raised the number of Iraqis killed to 17 and found the gunfire was unwarranted, the government said Sunday. It also said the shootings amounted to a deliberate crime and recommended those involved face trial.
A joint U.S.-Iraqi commission reviewing American security operations after a deadly shooting of Iraqi civilians allegedly at the hands of Blackwater USA guards met for the first time on Sunday, the U.S. embassy said. Across the Iraqi capital, bombings killed at least nine Iraqis in three separate attacks, including one near Iran's embassy, police said.
Bombings across Baghdad killed at least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 12 in three separate attacks early Sunday, including one near Iran's embassy, police officials said.
A car bomb exploded Thursday morning near people on line at a gas station, killing four civilians and wounding eight others, police said.
Tony was 12 when he sexually assaulted the 10-year-old sister of his best friend. Now 20, he's about to be released following eight years of treatment.
Two women are accused of soaking a homeless, drug-addicted prostitute with gasoline and burning her to death after she reported that one of them had robbed her.
No one doubted LaShuan Harris was mentally ill when she killed her three children.
LaShuan Harris took her three children on a train from Oakland into San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2005. She bought the little boys hot dogs, and they walked along Fisherman's Wharf. Then Harris undressed the three boys, ages 16 months, 2 and 6, and dropped them one at a time over the low railing into chilly San Francisco Bay, police say.
After two months behind bars in Colorado and California, John Mark Karr walked free when a judge dismissed child pornography charges against the former JonBenet Ramsey slaying suspect.
The author at the center of an elaborate literary hoax is finally coming clean — or so she says.
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