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A Virginia woman who pretended to be a psychologist, treating hundreds of patients and even testifying as a medical expert during custody hearings in court, was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison. Family after family testified in court in Stafford County on Friday about the damage done by Sharonda Avery. These families trusted Avery so much and were so…

Kaylene Bowen-Wright — a Dallas mother who faked her son’s illness for eight years — causing him to get surgeries he didn’t need was sentenced to six years in prison Friday.

A young Ohio mother who prosecutors said killed and buried her unwanted newborn in her backyard just days after her senior prom so that she could keep her “perfect life” was acquitted of murder Thursday.

The upcoming trial of a Chinese national on federal charges that she trespassed at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and lied to the Secret Service is potentially a circus wrapped in mystery. Rejecting the strong recommendation of U.S. District Judge Roy Altman, Yujing Zhang fired her public defenders in June to act as her own attorney – a longshot move...

Assistant federal public defender Kristy Militello wrote in court documents last week that Yujing Zhang wouldn’t meet with a psychologist, but has appeared mentally competent in interviews with her attorneys.

Assistant federal public defender Kristy Militello wrote in court documents filed in Florida this week that Yujing Zhang wouldn’t meet with a psychologist, but in interviews with her attorneys appears mentally competent.

Metta World Peace took time to sit down and talk about the new Showtime documentary based on his life, “Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story.”

Prosecutors will ask Judge Elizabeth Scherer on Tuesday to order a psychologist and an orthopedic clinic turn over Nikolas Cruz’s records.

A Virginia woman is accused of posing as a psychologist and treated hundreds of adults and children for years, police say.

With an increasing number of men discussing abuse suffered in the past at a Texas ranch that takes in children, the reckoning some had hoped for hasn’t happened.

Brazilian doctors are reporting the world’s first baby born to a woman with a uterus transplanted from a deceased donor. Eleven previous births have used a transplanted womb but from a living donor, usually a relative or friend. Experts said using uteruses from women who have died could make more transplants possible.

In the years after Steve Perry left Journey, he didn’t sing for anyone — not even for himself. No songs in the shower, humming tunes on the radio, or private concerts for family or friends. He was that burnt out, despite owning one of the most powerful voices in rock ‘n’ roll. But a misstep in a relationship forced him...

A Miami-Dade Police lieutenant accused of molesting a young girl appeared before a judge Friday where he was ordered held without bond.

A Miami-Dade police officer has been arrested amid allegations he molested an underage girl.

Bill Daily, the comic sidekick to leading men on the sitcoms “I Dream of Jeannie” and “The Bob Newhart Show,” has died, a family spokesman said Saturday. Daily died of natural causes in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Tuesday, at his home where he had been living with his son, spokesman Steve Moyer told The Associated Press. Daily was not a...

Prosecutors on Wednesday released video of the interrogation of confessed Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz, redacting the substance of his confession, as required by Florida law.

Two and half hours after the Stoneman Douglas High shooter was detained, video recorders began rolling at the Broward Sheriff’s Office where the suspect was taken. For the next 11 hours, until shortly after 5 the next morning, the suspect would confess his crimes, but also reveal much more.

A judge has ruled a Florida man not guilty by reason of insanity in the killing a popular restaurant owner.

As grounds, public defender Howard Finkelstein argues release “will cause significant trauma to an already beleaguered community, impede the defendant’s constitutional right against self-incrimination, as well as his right to a fair and impartial trial.”

Esteban Santiago, the accused gunman of the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting in which six died, has been declared mentally competent and will plead guilty next week.