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A former Ontario deputy attorney general will scrutinize the Nova Scotia police and public prosecution's investigation into the case of Rehtaeh Parsons, the Cole Harbour girl who died after she was bullied online. More...

Police in the Halifax region are warning that anyone who takes direct action against suspects in the Rehtaeh Parsons case will face legal consequences. More...

Friends, family and supporters of the four boys allegedly involved in the Rehtaeh Parsons case have taken their voice to the streets of Halifax. More...

Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter announced Monday there will be an independent review of the Rehtaeh Parsons case. More...

Now that a charge has been laid against Michael Sona in the case of misleading automated robocalls in Guelph, Ont., in the last federal election, we take a look at what happens next. More...

AP - A senior U.S. official says the Obama administration is in "intense discussions" with Egypt to resolve the legal case against 16 American democracy advocates that has badly damaged ties between the countries "in the coming days" More...

AP - Conservative interest groups and Republican lawmakers want Justice Elena Kagan off the health care case. Liberals and Democrats in Congress say it's Justice Clarence Thomas who should sit it out. More...

AP - All the judges in Penn State's home county removed themselves from potentially presiding over the child sex-abuse case against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and will be replaced by outside jurists, the Pennsylvania court system announced Thursday. More...

AP - A former Goldman Sachs board member surrendered to federal authorities Wednesday to face criminal charges stemming from a massive hedge fund insider trading case. More...

Conspicuous spending -- not technical sleuthing -- unearthed what may be the largest login-stealing botnet yet known, according to one expert working on the case. More...

(CNN) -- Willie Nelson settled his latest pot bust with a plea deal that reduced the marijuana possession charge to possession of drug paraphernalia and imposed a $500 fine, his lawyer said Tuesday. The charge will drop from Nelson's criminal record if he stays out of trouble for 30 days...

New York (CNN) -- Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, pleaded not guilty Monday to seven charges involving a May 14 incident in which a housekeeping employee at New York's Sofitel hotel accused him of sexual assault. Strauss-Kahn, who was considered a...

New York (CNN) -- Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, pleaded not guilty Monday to seven charges involving a May 14 incident in which a housekeeping employee at New York's Sofitel hotel accused him of sexual assault. Strauss-Kahn, who was considered a...

New York (CNN) -- Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, is expected to be arraigned Monday on sexual assault charges in connection with an incident at a posh New York hotel last month. Strauss-Kahn, who was considered a front-runner in France's next...

(CNN) -- The case against Anthony Sowell is grounded in his Cleveland backyard. There, in October 2009, investigators unearthed remains of five of the 11 women -- ages 25 to 52 -- found on Sowell's property. On Monday, jury selection for Sowell's trial begins in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Sowell...

York Regional Police's homicide division has taken over the case of a Markham woman missing since April. Police said 40-year-old Fang Lin disappeared on April 21, leaving behind her 14-year-old son. Her purple Porsche Cayenne was found abandoned a few days later in a plaza on Highway 7 after...

Washington (CNN) -- John Edwards' lawyer Greg Craig was in North Carolina on Friday amid signs that the former senator and 2008 presidential candidate likely either will be indicted or he and the Justice Department will agree on a plea deal, a source with knowledge of the investigation said...

AUSTIN, Texas – Lance Armstrong is adding two lawyers to his legal team who previously won a major legal victory against federal investigators in a doping case. John Keker and Elliot Peters of San Francisco represented Major League Baseball players as they won a key appeals court case two years...

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Lindsay Lohan rejected a plea agreement Thursday offered by prosecutors that included a guaranteed return to jail in a case involving the theft of a $2,500 necklace. The "Mean Girls" actress appeared in a courtroom and told a judge she agreed to delaying her case until an April 22 preliminary...