A veterinary clinic in Texas allegedly convinced a family to euthanize their 5-year-old Leonberger for health reasons, only to secretly keep the dog alive in a feces-covered cage for six months for blood transfusions.

First things first: The crime that brought Clayton Lockett to Oklahoma's death chamber did not present a hard case, as violent murders go. Lockett was sentenced to death almost 15 years ago for the murder of 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman, who he shot and then, with friends, buried alive off a country road. His guilt was not in dispute in his final set of appeals. The arguments were all focussed on the way he was going to die, about the sources and kinds of drugs that were going to kill him.

A couple that leapt to their deaths from the George Washington Bridge on Monday allegedly murdered a man in Suffern, N.Y. just before their joint suicide.

After a Beaverton, Oregon woman stopped by City Hall to pay a fine, she and two friends were seen twerking outside the building and "exposing themselves." Coura Valzquez, 20, and her two friends are now charged with disorderly conduct.

A Montana man was charged with deliberate homicide on Monday, two days after he shot and killed a German exchange student he found in his garage after setting a trap for burglars.

The person who has been arrested more than anyone else in Los Angeles in the past six years is not a drug dealer or a gang member. It is Annie Moody, a 59 year-old homeless grandmother who lives on skid row.

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences uses statistical techniques to estimate that one in every 25 death row inmates in America would be exonerated, given enough time and attention.

The NYPD's great week of publicity continues: Thursday night, an allegedly drunk on-duty NYPD officer shot his partner in the wrist while the two were drinking at a restaurant in Queens.

Frazier Glenn Miller, the ex-klansman and lifelong bigot who faces trial for killing three people at two Kansas Jewish centers earlier this month, ran up quite a rap sheet—including the time cops caught him in a car having sex with a black male prostitute dressed as a woman.

Four Americans, all of them Muslims, are suing the FBI, charging that the agency unfairly placed them on its "No-Fly List," and tried to use that as leverage to turn them into informers.

As 19-year-old Dallas Archer was being booked into the Kingsport, Tenn. jail on Monday, corrections officers allegedly discovered something unusual hidden in her vagina: a loaded revolver.

An Oberlin professor has accused another professor of trying to murder him. In response, the alleged would-be murderer is suing his accuser for sullying his good name. Life in academia can be killer.

Michael Egan III and his mother take questions from the media during a news conference on Monday. Egan, who previously accused X-Men director Bryan Singer of sexually abusing him when he was a teen, has sued former TV programming executive Garth Ancier, accusing him of abuse when Egan was 17. Image via Nick Ut/AP.

Today, The Atlantic has published a long story by Roy Klabin in which Klabin writes about shadowing several drug dealers as they do business. But some of the numbers in his story do not seem to add up.

A man is charged with aggravated assault against his girlfriend after an Easter egg decorating party went horribly awry Sunday, leaving the woman with a black eye and the man under arrest after attacking cops with a sword.

On Wednesday, a woman hosting an Easter egg hunt party for her four-year-old son discovered a dead body under her deck.

A construction worker faces a large fine for stealing government property after he failed to pay for a drink refill during his lunch break at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital.

He's just a man. A man with a dream. A dream of not getting pulled over all the time because of the name he inherited. Also, a dream of allegedly doing some drugs, which, you know, irony!

A Tampa Bay-area high school teacher was arrested this week after admitting she'd had sex "20 to 30 times" with an underage student and aborted a pregnancy that resulted from the illicit relationship.

A 34-year-old man faces charges of felony assault and assault with a bodily fluid after he allegedly licked the eyeball of a police officer attempting to arrest him on Saturday.