Nature vs. nurture... It’s the age-old debate, especially when considering the heinous crimes of adults. But what about when the perpetrators are children? Accidents aside, just how twisted does a ...

A 70-year-old Southfield man is headed to prison for molesting two children in his family. At a sentencing hearing Monday in Oakland County Circuit Court, Judge Daniel O’Brien ordered Lawrence Miles ...

Two Burlington-area college students indicted on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine were sentenced to prison terms recently in U.S. District Court in Rutland. Steven O'Reilly, 22, of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Julie Poehlmann, University of Wisconsin-Madison (THE CONVERSATION) Across ...

The Texas judge whose lenient sentencing of the drunk-driving teen who killed four people yet was given probation is being pressured to sentence him to prison, the Christian Science Monitor reports.

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