Topic: Lawrence King

New research has linked high county-level incarceration rates to higher rates of drug deaths and economic decline in the United States.

A group of data-literate sociologists say they've developed a new data analysis technique for identifying corruption in government.

A California teenager killed a gay classmate with premeditation motivated by extremist beliefs, a prosecutor said as his trial opened Tuesday.

Hundreds of teenagers marched Saturday to honor a Southern California 15-year-old killed in school in an alleged hate crime.

A 14-year-old Southern California boy could face an adult trial for a hate crime for the fatal shooting of another teen in a school classroom.

An eighth-grade California boy died Wednesday, a day after being shot by a classmate during English class in a computer lab at their school, authorities said.

Six Cubans convicted of hijacking a jetliner from Havana to Key West, Fla., were sentenced to 20-24 years in prison Wednesday in Miami.

A Key West, Fla., jury convicted six Cubans of hijacking Thursday for commandeering a passenger plane over the Isle of Youth and taking it to Florida.

In "Bayou Farewell," Mike Tidwell has written a gripping account of the causes and consequences of the disappearance of the Louisiana bayou. This rich and beaut

Although momentum and public opinion against the Florida ban on gay adoptions appeared to build this week, chances of abolishing the law soon still don't look g