US prosecutors today dropped a burglary charge against actor Rip Torn, clearing the way for him to seek special probation that might settle charges that he broke into a bank while drunk and armed in January.

A US judge will allow the public and the media to view a videotape in court that prosecutors allege shows singer R Kelly having sex with an underage girl.

A US judge will allow the public and the media to view a videotape in court that prosecutors allege shows singer R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl.

Illinois governor George Ryan cleared the state’s death row, commuting 167 condemned inmates’ sentences in the broadest attack on capital punishment in decades.