Klansman kidnapped youths in race trial: witness
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JACKSON, Mississippi  - A former Ku Klux Klansman on trial for kidnapping two black men murdered in Mississippi in 1964 helped abduct, beat and kill the teenagers, a key prosecution witness told a court on Tuesday.
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Testimony from former inmates is to be heard at the trial of the alleged ringleader of the Abu Ghraib prison abuses.
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A civil rights lawyer accused of aiding terrorists began testifying Monday in her defense, telling jurors she transformed herself from a 1960s Harlem school librarian into a lawyer fighting for the downtrodden.
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JACKSON, Mississippi  - A former Ku Klux Klansman was sentenced to three life terms on Friday for his role in the 1964 killings of two black men in a case that highlights white supremacist violence during the civil rights era.
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A key witness in the trial over the murder of British backpacker Caroline Stuttle said he saw a man running from the bridge after the victim fell to her death but that man was not the accused.
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A Kurdish security officer testifying Tuesday in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial showed the court body burns he allegedly received when Iraqi troops attacked his northern village in March 1988.
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Relatives of a man who murdered a family of four testified Friday that his childhood was filled with abuse, but jurors deciding whether he should be executed also heard a witness describe being stabbed in his mouth, face and neck in another merciless attack the defendant confessed to.
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At the trial of her sexual harassment lawsuit against the Knicksâ Isiah Thomas, Anucha Browne Sanders testified that he verbally abused her almost from the day they met.
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A witness's testimony will prove that a former undercover agent who sent dozens of blacks to prison on bogus drug charges perjured himself, a prosecutor said in opening statements Tuesday.
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A witness in the trial of actor Chris Langham is recalled by the court after his evidence is contradicted.
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A former Ku Klux Klansman is jailed for life in the US for his role in the abduction and murder of two black teenagers.
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A witness who claimed he was coerced into testifying against a blind Chinese activist has been taken away by local police on the eve of a retrial of the case, the activist's lawyer said Sunday.
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The trial of Saddam Hussein for   genocide against Kurds resumed on Thursday in a central Baghdad   courtroom, with a witness taking the stand to describe how his   village was attacked in 1988 by artillery and warplanes.
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Authorities in central Mississippi arrested a reputed former Ku Klux Klan leader on charges of killing three civil rights workers in 1964.
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A key prosecution witness was afraid to testify against a group of black teens she said she saw brutally attack three white women, fearful that taking the stand would endanger her and her 1-year-old son.
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A Muslim witness identified 11 men accused of killing 14 people during riots in 2002 in a high-profile retrial seen as key to delivering justice for  victims of the country's worst religious violence in a decade.
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A former Kurdish guerrilla fighter   accused Saddam Hussein of poisoning him with chemical weapons   strikes when he appeared as a witness at the ousted Iraqi   leader's genocide trial on Monday.