IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A lawyer for a conservative scholar who was passed over for University of Iowa law school jobs is requesting a retrial and has raised criticism about how a judge oversaw the mixed verdict.

Attorney Stephen Fieweger on Thursday asked a federal court to reinstate Teresa Wagner's claim of discrimination under the 1st Amendment

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit brought by a man who was injured in an explosion at an International Paper Co. mill in Mississippi in 2008.

Jeb D. Slade settled his lawsuit Thursday after a hearing in U.S. District Court in Natchez. The terms were not

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Media in Cyprus are hailing it as a miracle.

A 2-year-old Syrian boy who was believed dead after his family inadvertently left him behind as they fled shelling in Damascus last summer has been reunited with his parents in Cyprus, a lawyer said Friday.

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NEW YORK (AP) - A nanny suspected of stabbing two young children to death in a luxury apartment near Central Park was in critical condition Friday with apparently self-inflicted injuries.

The children's mother, Marina Krim, came home with her 3-year-old daughter on Thursday