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Fox News aired the name of the underage victim in the Steubenville rape trial during a report about the case on Monday. Two high school... Katherine Fung http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katherine-fung/

New details have emerged in the investigation of the deadly Newtown shooting that suggest the killer fed his obsession with violence by keeping meticulous records... Simon McCormack http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-mccormack/

No need for a gag order on this one. Cody Larson, 24, allegedly vomited up 14 bags of heroin in front of police officers Sunday.... Hilary Hanson http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-hanson/

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Federal prosecutors say a Birmingham man has pleaded guilty to using the social networking site Twitter to threaten the life of President... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-wing/

A 15-year-old girl was shot dead over the weekend in suburban Calumet City, just south of Chicago's Far South Side. Police say the teen girl,... Kim Bellware http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-bellware/

Science can get pretty weird. For every experiment that makes sense, such as, say, the effects of anti-gravity on sex, there is one that is... Cracked.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-moye/

Beth Ditto was arrested early Saturday morning in Portland, Ore., for disorderly conduct. The Portland Mercury reports that the Gossip lead singer was arrested at... Youyoung Lee http://www.huffingtonpost.com/youyoung-lee/

St. Patrick's Day had barely begun before police had to break up a riot by University of Dayton students, the Dayton Daily News reports. Reports... William McGuinness http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-mcguinness/

The Jodi Arias murder trial is set to resume in Arizona on Monday with the defense calling their psychologist to the stand again. Arias concluded... David Lohr http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-lohr/

STROUDSBURG, Pa. -- A former Pennsylvania pastor was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole in the fatal bludgeoning of his second wife in... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-griffo/

PONTIAC, Mich. — An 75-year-old woman "hunted down" her teenage grandson in her suburban Detroit home and shot at him 10 times over a six-minute... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-abbeylambertz/

Convicted hacker Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer was sentenced Monday to 41 months in prison for collecting thousands of email addresses from AT&T's servers and disclosing them... Gerry Smith http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerry-smith/

By Liz Ryan, TakePart Jonathan McClard was 16 years old when he was arrested and convicted as an adult for a shooting at a Jackson,... Eleanor Goldberg http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eleanor-goldberg/

The daily injustices suffered nationwide by indigent defendants are staggering. Many are without lawyers at bail hearings, which leaves people incarcerated until trial because they cannot afford bail. Vanita Gupta http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vanita-gupta/

CHICAGO -- She inspired a novel and a movie starring Robert Redford when in 1949 she lured a major league ballplayer she'd never met into... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-erbentraut/

ANKARA, Turkey -- Istanbul's police chief says a man suspected of killing a New York City woman in Istanbul was caught in Syria in a... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-mclaughlin/

Could Lindsay Lohan be tempting fate? LiLo is due in California court this morning (March 18) for a hearing that will determine her future and... Liat Kornowski http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liat-kornowski/

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A small private aircraft clipped two houses before smashing into a third and snapping in half, killing two people inside the... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-griffo/

NEW YORK -- More than a hundred New Yorkers, police officers, scholars and lawmakers are expected to testify about the police department's controversial tactic of... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inae-oh/

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A man accused of killing a Syracuse woman and raping her 10-year-old daughter during a carjacking was beaten and suffered a broken... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-hanson/