Crime

Registered sex offenders who have been banned from social networking websites are fighting back in the nation's courts, successfully challenging many of the restrictions as infringements on free speech and their right to participate in common online discussions. Read More

Montreal police have issued a Canada-wide warrant for a 29-year-old male suspect in connection with a dismembered torso found in their city and two body parts found in the mail in Ottawa. Read More

Former newspaper proprietor Eddie Shah has been charged with several sex offences, including the rape of a teenage girl, police say. Read More

A Hazlet man is accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy for almost 11 months, after serving more than four years in prison for earlier sexual assaults, according to a report on APP.com. Robert J. Schwarz, 45, is charged with second-degree aggravated sexual assault and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child by engaging in sexual acts with the teenager from July 2011 until Saturday, according to the report. Read More

Brian Banks spent more than five years in prison for a rape and kidnapping that, as the courts now find, he did not commit; the repercussions of how the case sorts itself out in the justice system will take a lot longer than that. Read More

A man found dead in a car in a Royal Oak parking lot Wednesday morning may be the person responsible for the death of a woman who was shot to death in a van near her home on West Outer Drive in Detroit on Tuesday night as a child watched, police said. Read More

ESSEX, Md. Baltimore County police are looking for a man wanted in the death of a man whose body was found in a burning work truck in Essex. Read More

COLLIN COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) - A Collin County grand jury has indicted a McKinney chiropractor for sexually assaulting patients. Read More

Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant coach for Penn State's football team who is now facing child rape charges, is set to go to trial next week after a Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday denied his attorneys' bid for a delay. Read More

A teenage stock clerk who in 1979 left Manhattan for the solace of his mother's south Jersey home appeared shaken and then fell ill, says a relative of the man now charged in the murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz. "When he moved home, he was really nervous and shaking all the time," added the relative, who declined to be named. Read More