Japanese politicians are generally not very vocal when it comes to their views on capital punishment, mainly because a large majority of the public supports the death penalty. Read more ...

Death Notices for Tuesday, April 22: Solomon Barnhouse, Orland Hoppe, Lillian Lang, Louis Marler Jr., Ruth Massmann and Raymond Mendenhall.

More and more pet owners are abandoning their animals at the Humane Society of Northwest Georgia. The problem has gotten so out of hand, the center has installed security cameras.

A man who killed a woman and her 11-month-old baby daughter in 1999 when he was 18 was sentenced to death by a Japanese court on Tuesday. The case, in which the youth strangled and raped the woman and killed her daughter, prompted a ...

Nearly two months after a South Bend man was beaten to death inside a federal prison in Chicago, his family is frustrated by the lack of information they have received.