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Suspected 1970s serial killer Bruce Lindahl, who has been dead for decades, has now been identified as the culprit in a 1979 cold case murder, Illinois authorities announced Wednesday. On March 29, 1979, Kathy Halle, 19, left her apartment to…

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Monday blocked votes on a ballot initiative to expand medical marijuana after it ruled the measure didn’t fully explain what it would do, calling it “misleading.” The proposed constitutional amendment would have expanded the definition…

A Massachusetts man has been awarded $3.3 million 5 1/2 years after a collision with a parked military helicopter on a snowmobile trail. U.S. District Judge Mark Mastroianni on Monday found the federal government primarily responsible for the crash, attributing…

The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrat Dick Durbin of Illinois, has called for an enforceable code of conduct for U.S. Supreme Court justices following the latest controversy involving Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife. Durbin’s Senate floor speech on Tuesday…

California officials canceled an AMBER Alert on Friday for siblings Wyman Bryant and Willow Bryant, who were found safe more than two weeks after their disappearance. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced that 4-year-old Wyman Bryant and 2-year-old Willow…