A judge in the case of a former neighborhood watch leader accused of shooting Florida teenager Trayvon Martin has denied a defense request to delay the trial.
On February 2, 2013 the Dothan Police Department responded to a residence located in the 1200 block of Hamilton Street after receiving a call of a man driving a vehicle into the residence.
Virginia College in Homewood has more security patrolling the campus because someone has been firing
paintballs at the doors and windows of the cosmetology program.
Authorities say a 15-year-old was stabbed five times after an argument with a younger boy began on a school bus and ended in a fight in their Valdosta neighborhood.
The new judge in the Fort Hood shooting case is to decide this week whether to spare Maj. Nidal Hasan a possible death sentence and let him plead guilty in the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military installation.
Now that the U.S. Justice Department's criminal probe of BP PLC is resolved, the company faces billions of dollars more in civil penalties for its role in the 2010 massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.