A federal judge says he'll order an investigation into the apparent destruction of evidence in a lawsuit over mass arrests during 2002 protests against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said Thursday that he is tempted ...

A federal judge has approved settlement talks in a decade-old discrimination lawsuit filed by American Indians against the U.S. Agriculture Department. Both sides asked Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington for 60 days of settlement talks. Sullivan moved a status hearing that had been scheduled for ...

Three Haitian men were sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday for kidnapping an American teenager and her Haitian classmate for ransom. The victims, identified only by their initials, were taken in May 2006 by gunmen who hijacked their driver on their way to school in ...

A judge on Friday dismissed a major international drug case and ordered that the alleged dealer not be charged again after the prosecution fell apart. Chinese-Mexican businessman Zhenli Ye Gon has been jailed for two years on charges of importing methamphetamine from Mexico into the United States. Authorities said they ...