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Authorities say non-violent offenders in southern Alabama will have a new choice: Go to jail, or go to church every Sunday for a year.

A new study has found that in most shootings in which Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies fired at suspects who appeared to be reaching for a weapon, the suspect turned out to be unarmed. And in the last six years, all but two of those people shot were black and Latino, according to the study [...]

An inmate in the St. Louis city jail escaped Friday after fighting off more than a dozen correctional officers using a self-made pair of nunchucks then climbing to his freedom over a barbed wire and razor fence, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The prisoner, 31-year-old Lorenzo Pollard, was caught and back in the jail by [...]

Should the state offer FREE tattoos to the convicted?

As the UK riots continue for a third consecutive day and 10,000 extra police are sent to guard the streets of London tonight, France 24 takes a look at the reasons behind the most violent riots the country has seen in decades.

A 36-year-old Vancouver woman was arrested after investigators said she tried to sell her infant son at a Taco Bell. The Clark County Sheriff’s Office said Heidi Knowles–also known as Heidi Gasaway–approached a woman who was eating at a Taco Bell restaurant on Thursday, handed the woman her her 3-day-old son, and offered to sell [...]

U.S. law-enforcement agencies are increasingly obtaining warrants to search Facebook, often gaining detailed access to users’ accounts without their knowledge. A Reuters review of the Westlaw legal database shows that since 2008, federal judges have authorized at least two dozen warrants to search individuals’ Facebook accounts. Many of the warrants requested a laundry list of [...]

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp could face probes by U.S. authorities for possibly violating bribery laws, compounding the media mogul’s problems after a phone-hacking scandal in Britain. The Obama administration has significantly stepped up enforcement of anti-bribery laws in the last two years, winning big settlements from the likes of Daimler AG and BAE Systems Plc [...]