Women's Prison Segregated Lesbians in 'Butch Wing'

For more than a year, Virginia's largest women's prison rounded up inmates who had loose-fitting clothes, short hair or otherwise masculine looks, sending them to a unit officers derisively dubbed the "butch wing," prisoners and guards say.

U.N. Expert Says Haitian Kids Being Used as House Slaves

A U.N. human rights expert says Haiti is suffering a "modern form of slavery" in the widespread use of children as house laborers.

Neb. Doctor to Perform Late-Term Abortions in Kansas

Dr. LeRoy Carhart declined to discuss his plans in detail during a telephone interview with The Associated Press, but insisted 'there will be a place in Kansas for the later second- and the medically indicated third-trimester patients very soon.'

Deadly Museum Shooting

Gunman opens fire at Holocaust Museum, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot, injured

Mentally Disabled Teen Gets 100 Yrs in Child Sex Case

Attorneys and advocates are questioning why an 18-year-old East Texan with profound mental disabilities was sentenced to 100 years in prison in a child sex abuse case.

Georgia Girl, 11, Ordered to Leave U.S. Over Paper Error

Eleven-year-old Ewelina Bledniak, who has been in the U.S. since she was 2 years old, faces getting thrown out of America if she doesn't "voluntarily leave" the country by July 23.

Al Qaeda Chief Strapped for Cash, Asks for Money

Al Qaeda's top commander in Afghanistan urged Turkish Muslims in a new audio message Wednesday to send money to militants fighting coalition troops in the country, saying they are low on funds