"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...

Good news for fans of Scott Turow's "Presumed Innocent": Rusty Sabich is back on the jobTurow, speaking to The Associated Press on Saturday at BookExpo America, said he has written about one-quarter of a novel featuring the famed chief deputy prosecutor who investigated, and was...

The parents of three Guilford College football players charged with ethnic intimidation defended their sons Friday, nearly a week after an on-campus fight between the players and three Palestinian students.The parents of Michael Bates, Michael Robert Six and Christopher Barnette issued a statement Friday, asking...

A police officer pleaded not guilty Friday to killing his pregnant girlfriend, whose corpse was found in a park and whose toddler son gave investigators some of their strongest clues.Bobby Cutts Jr. could be sentenced to die if convicted in the deaths of Jessie Davis...

Forget about "The Godfather," prosecutors urged jurors at the start of Chicago's biggest mob trial in years. It sounded simple enough, until the dialogue started with a stream of nicknames and suspected code words that could have come straight from a Hollywood script.The prosecution's star...