Libel law requires more than just a showing of false factual allegations about the plaintiff (plus, generally, knowledge/reckless/sometimes negligence as to the falsehood). It also requires that ...

State Sen. Kathy Bernier joined a bipartisan group of election and legal experts to raise the alarm about Republican efforts to undermine elections. State Sen. Kathy Bernier (R-Chippewa Falls) on...

False claims about pregnancy and COVID-19 vaccines have persisted, and a new claim that includes specific detail about a scenario in Canada is no different. A viral article, headlined, "Sudden Su...

BROADMOOR, Calif. (KRON) — The Broadmoor Police Department announced it is investigating misconduct by former top employees who allegedly abused their positions. Earlier this year the department’...

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced today that Irene Carroll, 38, of Elkridge, was sentenced to three years probation in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, following her guilty ple...

Ohio is one of the few states in the country that does not have a state “false claims” law modeled after the federal “qui tam” law. A long-overdue clean-up of all the state pensions may be coming...

Lieutenant governor candidate and state Senate President Pro Tempore Butch Miller filed legislation Monday to eliminate election drop boxes made popular by Georgian trying to avoid having to vote...

This past week, a jury found actor Jussie Smollett guilty of five felony counts of disorderly conduct for lying to police in the days after an alleged attack that has since been proved to be a ha...

The settlement -- one of the largest ever recorded for victims of sex abuse -- ends a five-year legal battle that erupted following the abuse scandal that rocked the US Olympic movement. Nassar, ...

December 13, 2021 | 2:30 PM EST Federal authorities arrested Lieber and charged him with fraud on Jan. 28, 2020. Lieber’s lab at Harvard has received grants from the US National Institutes of He...