Nation Sep 11 OxyContin maker agrees to tentative settlement, attorneys say Attorneys representing some 2,000 local governments say they have agreed to a tentative settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over the toll of the nation's opioid crisis.
Nation Apr 26 Police release footage after shooting on unarmed black couple in Connecticut Facing protests and concerned about losing the community's trust, Connecticut officials were unusually quick to release police body camera and surveillance videos of a shooting by two police officers, who opened fire on a young, unarmed couple in their car…
Nation Apr 17 Appeal focuses on Newtown officials' actions before shooting A Connecticut appeals court is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit alleging Sandy Hook Elementary School officials failed to order a lockdown that could have saved lives before a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators in 2012.
Arts Apr 10 Charles Van Doren, figure in game show scandals, dies at 93 The handsome scion of a prominent literary family, Van Doren was the central figure in the TV game show scandals of the late 1950s and eventually pleaded guilty to perjury for lying to a grand jury that investigated them.
Nation Mar 14 Gun maker can be sued over Newtown shooting, court rules Justices reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit against Remington and overturned the ruling of a lower court judge, who said the entire lawsuit was prohibited by a 2005 federal law.