Music producer Phil Spector faced a judge in a Los Angeles courtroom Friday and received a sentence of 19 years to life for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson six years ago.

In the black market of prison life, cell phones have become perhaps the hottest commodity.

Life imitated art in Paris on Saturday.

A U.S. soldier convicted of murdering an Iraqi family spoke out for the first time Thursday, issuing a public apology for his crimes. “I know that I have done evil,” Steven Green said at a hearing in which he came face to face with his victims.

It probably would have been just another ho-hum city council budget meeting.

Meet Kaden, bomb-sniffing dog in training. At 4 months old, Kaden, above right, is a playful basenji being schooled at Georgia K9 National Training Center. His detective skills can potentially save thousands of lives in an era where law enforcement agencies are fighting against drugs and terrorist attacks.

Sonia Sotomayor grew up in a Bronx public housing project. Her dad died when she was 9, leaving her mom to work six-day weeks to support the family. Sotomayor thrived in the Ivy League and on the federal bench. Now, she has her sights on the Supreme Court.

The mother and brother of a 31-year-old woman found strangled with her two young sons in the bedrooms of their home filed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday against the alleged killer — the husband and father of the victims.

Attorneys for imprisoned former football great O.J. Simpson on Tuesday appealed his conviction to the Nevada Supreme Court, claiming his trial was “fundamentally unfair.”

Prosecutors alleged Friday that Drew Peterson tried to hire a hitman to kill his third wife. The disclosure came at a bond hearing for Peterson, a former police officer accused of killing ex-wife Kathleeen Savio and suspected in the October 2007 disappearance of fourth wife Stacy Peterson.