Man pleads not guilty in Colo. to smuggling drugs (AP)
AP - A man charged with helping smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine from Mexico to the U...

Ohio doctor gets 20-to-life in wife's poison death (AP)
AP - An Ohio judge has handed down a life prison term for a doctor convicted of killing his wife ...

Accused Letterman extortionist pleads guilty (Reuters)
Robert Joel Reuters - A television producer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trying to extort $2 million from U.S...

Man who caused Newark airport breach pleads guilty (AP)
Haisong Jiang appears in Newark Municipal Court on a charge of defiant trespassing, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Jiang is accused of breaching security at Newark Liberty International Airport in January. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Lara, Pool)AP - A graduate student from China who slipped under a rope barrier at Newark Liberty Internation...

Eritrean pleads not guilty to aiding terrorists (AP)
AP - A prosecutor says the government has an extensive confession from an Eritrean charged with p...

Assisted suicide network members indicted in Ga. (AP)
FILE - In a March 17, 2009 file photo, Thomas E. Goodwin, former president of the Final Exit Network, is pictured during an interview with The Associated Press, in Atlanta. A Georgia grand jury indicted Goodwin and three other members of the assisted suicide group Final Exit Network Tuesday, March 9, 2010 on charges they helped a 58-year-old with cancer kill himself. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)AP - A grand jury indicted four members of an assisted suicide group Tuesday on charges they help...

Calif. serial killer asks jury to spare his life (AP)
AP - Convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala has asked a California jury to spare his life.

Producer admits to attempted Letterman shakedown (AP)
FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2009 file photo, Robert J. Halderman is arraigned in State Supreme Court in New York on charges of trying to blackmail David Letterman for $2 million to keep quiet about the comic's sexual affairs. Halderman, a CBS producer, pleaded guilty Tuesday, March 9, 2010 to attempted grand larceny. He is being sentenced to six months in jail and 1,000 hours of community service. (AP Photo/Steve Hirsch, Pool, File)AP - A former television producer pressured by debt and riven by jealousy admitted Tuesday he tri...

Probation report cites predatory traits of suspect (AP)
FILE - This undated file image provided by the Dubois family shows Amber Dubois. Authorities in Southern California say the skeletal remains of Dubois, a 14-year-old girl who disappeared a year ago while walking to school, have been found in a remote area of the Pala Indian Reservation. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Dubois family, File) NO SALESAP - A decade-old probation report on a sex offender accused of murdering California teenager Che...

Suspect in Fla. shooting rampage pleads not guilty (AP)
AP - A man accused of a January shooting rampage in Florida that left three people dead has plead...

Tenn. woman pleads guilty to faking breast cancer (AP)
AP - A Tennessee woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to faking breast cancer in a scam that netted thous...

Police want to interview Roethlisberger (AFP)
Police in Georgia said on Monday they hope to interview Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, pictured in 2009, regarding a sexual assault accusation against him, an accusation a lawyer for the Steelers quarterback denied.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Karl Walter)AFP - Police here said on Monday they hope to interview Ben Roethlisberger regarding a sexual ass...

Judge considers sending ex-Edwards aide to jail (AP)
Andrew Young, former aide to former Senator John Edwards, and his wife Cheri Young listen to the prosecutions' arguments during a hearing at the Chatham County Superior Court House in Pittsboro, N.C., Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)AP - A judge said Tuesday he is considering whether to send a former John Edwards aide to jail fo...

9/11 Trials: Can Graham Help Forge a White House Deal? (Time.com)
Time.com - Caught short on civilian trials for terror suspects and closing GuantÁnamo, the Admini...

20 years added to sentence of ex-Army Ranger (AP)
AP - A former Army Ranger originally sentenced to 24 years for leading a 2006 military-style bank...