Investigators found the house, built in the 1800s, had several layers of roofing material on it, and the fire was burning in ...

President Trump, over the weekend, stoked criticism and alarm when he posted a blunt and cryptic statement seemingly ...

The state forged several firsts in racial equality and equal justice, but state laws now target all things diverse, writes ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of convicted murderer Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, ordering a lower court to review whether she got a ...

Convicted murderer JW Rover went to the gallows proclaiming his innocence. Then came the séances, ghost sightings and an ...

Lloyd Gaines, a valedictorian and aspiring lawyer, made history in the 1930s when he challenged the University of Missouri School of Law’s rejection due to segregation ...

When it comes to respecting the rulings of courts, President Donald Trump has been of two minds. If the decision goes his way ...

Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans hope to ...

Defiance so breaches the American norm that two episodes stand out, both in the 1800s, involving President Andrew Jackson’s refusal to enforce the Cherokee cases and President Abraham Lincoln’s Civil ...

Those seeking to undo Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship are looking at past legal cases ...

When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is ...