Police investigating the slaying of Wesleyan University junior Johanna Justin-Jinich discovered a composition notebook with a chilling entry, “Kill Johanna. She must Die,” an arrest affidavit said. The notebook’s contents were disclosed as suspect Stephen Morgan appeared in a Connecticut courtroom.

Drew Peterson, the former police sergeant whom authorities call the prime suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, has been indicted on murder charges related to the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, the Illinois state attorney’s office said.

Four minor boys are facing felony assault charges after a 13-year-old boy accused them of sexually assaulting him in the locker room of a Tampa, Florida, middle school, authorities said Friday.

Law enforcement officials in southern California are urgently searching for a 3-year-old boy who was kidnapped at gunpoint during a weekend home invasion. Billboards have been erected along the U.S.-Mexico border. Authorities say the kidnappers haven’t made any demands.

Police say a man tossed a 3-month-old boy from a car after arguing with the baby’s mother. Emanuel Murray’s body was found by a passing motorist on Interstate 275 in Florida. Anthony McTear Jr. has been charged with first-degree murder, police said. McTear told reporters, “It’s a dirty game. A dirty game.”

A German court Wednesday rejected an effort by suspected Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk to block his expected transfer from the United States to Germany.

Monday, May 4, 2009

A medical student accused of killing a masseuse in a Boston, Massachusetts, hotel room will be charged in a hotel assault in Rhode Island, the state attorney general said Monday.

The Supreme Court will decide whether it is cruel and unusual punishment for young criminal offenders to be sentenced to life in prison with parole.

Federal Communications Commission by Michael Hamden There is presently pending before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) a proceeding in which the regulation of prison pay phone providers is being considered. (CC Docket # 96-128.) That matter involves the egregious practices of the prison pay phone industry, which, with the complicity of correctional professionals, permit the [...]