"Serious readers should be reading [Scott] Turow, because he is not just one of our best crime novelists; he is also one of our better novelists," declared writer/critic Wendy Lesser in the New York Times Book Revie w. Lesser went on to...

Two ex-convicts pleaded guilty to robbing and killing an aspiring British politician last summer in Georgetown.Christopher Piper, 26, and Jeffrey Rice, 23, pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder and robbery charges in the death of Alan Senitt, whose throat was slashed July 9 as he...

A Marine corporal has agreed to plead guilty to unpremeditated murder in the death of an Iraqi man last year, a newspaper reported Wednesday, citing the corporal's attorney.Cpl. Trent Thomas was scheduled to enter his guilty plea Thursday, lawyer Victor Kelley told the North County...

A Marine corporal has agreed to plead guilty to unpremeditated murder in the death of an Iraqi man last year, a newspaper reported Thursday, citing the corporal's attorney.Cpl. Trent Thomas was scheduled to enter his guilty plea Thursday, lawyer Victor Kelley told the North County...

A man prosecutors say was paid about $2.6 million to be a professional plaintiff — and helped a prestigious New York law firm get lucrative class-action lawsuits — pleaded guilty Thursday to obstruction of justice and two other charges.After reaching a plea deal, Seymour Lazar,...