It was announced today that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords reads the final chapter of her memoir in the accompanying audiobook. Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope was co-written by Giffords' husband Mark Kelly and he reads the rest of the book. Giffords has reportedly been struggling with language, so as with all aspects of…
Attorneys for Jared Loughner, who's accused of murdering six people and wounding 13 during an Arizona shooting spree, have been arguing that doctors in the Missouri psychiatric facility where he's being held shouldn't be able to force him to take his medication. His doctors say that the medication could make Loughner…
For the first seven months of her recovery, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was told little about the shooting that left six people dead and 13 people, including herself, injured. Those close to her feared that the trauma of learning the details of what happened would stunt her recovery, and that she'd be unable to process the …
Well, this is the weirdest take on the Casey Anthony case we've seen so far: if only Caylee's dad had been around, he could have saved her from death.
Casey Anthony is such a reviled figure that some say she's been offered plastic surgery in order to hide from her haters. But she also has some support — strangers have donated over $200 to her prison account since she was acquitted.
The fine folks in Florida have recalculated the numbers and, lo, Casey Anthony will not leave the clink on July 13; now she'll be free on July 17. There's been no explanation as to the miscalculation or new release date — maybe those extra four days are to teach her a lesson!
A tipster called our attention to Etsy, where people are letting off some steam about the Casey Anthony trial in the form of crafting. There are certainly worse ways to react in a situation like this, but does the world really need a series of Casey Anthony bumper stickers, t-shirts, and necklaces? The following Etsy…
"My mom is going to kill me." A phrase used so often it has lost its urgency and true meaning.
Casey Anthony will be a free woman on Wednesday, July 13, 2011. This morning, Judge Belvin Perry essentially threw the book at Anthony, sentencing her to one year in jail for each of the four misdemeanor counts of lying to police, ordering them to run consecutively instead of concurrently, along with a $,1000 fine for…
Following Casey Anthony's shocking acquittal
Now that Casey Anthony's been found not guilty, the deluge of media offers can begin. Sadly for everyone, satisfying our morbid curiosity is probably the only way Anthony can make money.
Today Rep. Gabrielle Gifford's chief of staff Pia Carusone gave the most forthcoming update yet on her medical state. As the tidbits fed to the media have suggested, she's doing remarkably well — for someone who suffered such a devastating injury. However, Carusone's comments seem to confirm that as we suspected
Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa stooped to new levels of awfulness in his post claiming "black women are significantly less physically attractive than women of other races." His racist remarks could cost him his job at the London School of Economics.
In a strikingly candid interview on 60 Minutes, Lara Logan described in detail the sexual assault she suffered in Egypt, and directly addressed those who say women shouldn't report from war zones.
Journalist Lara Logan has begun giving interviews offering details of her sexual assault
A day after a Newburgh, New York mom killed herself
For months since the Arizona shooting, we've heard new details about Gabrielle Giffords that seems to suggest she's making an incredible recovery. While it's true that Giffords has been making great progress, a Newsweek feature suggests her abilities may have been exaggerated in the media.
Today the Education Department fined Virginia Teach $55,000, the maximum amount allowed, for failing to adequately warn the campus that a shooter might be on the loose prior to the April 16, 2007 massacre that left 30 dead.
As more details emerge about Lara Logan's assault, a predictable debate begins: should female journalists be barred from war zones?
Six weeks after Gabrielle Giffords was shot, her doctor tells CBS New that she's making remarkable progress and interacting with friends and family, but she still doesn't know exactly what happened to her. "She certainly knows that there's been a traumatic event here," said Pia Carusone, Giffords' chief of staff. "The…
CBS reporter and sexual assault survivor Lara Logan is now recovering at home, and she could be back at work in a few weeks. Meanwhile, President Obama is demanding justice for her attackers — and CNN has made a strange decision in its coverage.
Now that CBS has made public Lara Logan's sexual assault
More encouraging news on Gabrielle Giffords's recovery: Yesterday she was taken outside to see Tucson one last time before she's transferred to a Texas rehabilitation facility today. Doctors also say she's been scrolling through an iPad and trying to talk.
Gabrielle Giffords is expected to be released to a rehab in Texas tomorrow, just 13 days after being shot. She still isn't speaking, but she stood up yesterday and her husband Mark Kelly says she'll be walking in two weeks.
In a long interview, Gabrielle Giffords's husband Mark Kelly said his wife predicted she might be shot — and added that he hoped she didn't return to Congress.
Shooter Jared Loughner's unhinged YouTube rants and strange behavior has many people asking if we're doing enough to protect Americans from mentally ill people. But that's the wrong question.
As Rep. Gabrielle Giffords lies in an induced coma, the country's begun to argue about the causes of her brutal shooting — and, less contentiously, to honor those who stepped in to protect her.
The Rutgers sex-spying case is the latest in a string of tragic stories about people committing suicide after having been allegedly bullied, harassed, or violated. But can people truly be "driven" to suicide?
A report released Wednesday shows the many lapses by California parole authorities that allowed Phillip Garrido to hold Jaycee Dugard in his yard for 18 years — and the changes that need to be made so others avoid her fate.
Yesterday, Iranian ambassador Mohammad Hassan Ghadiri told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that the bullet that killed young Neda Agha Soltan was not Iranian, and thus her killers were CIA operatives or terrorists.
