Law

A young Ohio couple was arrested Thursday after police discovered they had given their neglected 2-year-old daughter to a neighbor 10 days earlier.

A Cherokee County man has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for stealing cattle from a friend who was paying him to "cow sit" his herd while he was out of the country.

Conservative political and social pundit and former presidential candidate Patrick  Buchanan has a grim view of America's future.  Buchanan believes America is dying, and worse, it's dying by its own hand -- committing suicide. That's the title of Buchanan's latest book:  Suicide of a Superpower.

Florida state lawmaker Rep. Brad Drake recently had a conversation about the death penalty with a constituent at a local Waffle House restaurant. At issue: the legal battle surrounding the execution of convicted killer Manuel Valle.

Central Texas Congressman Michael McCaul of Austin is pushing Congress and the Obama administration to designate murderous Mexican drug cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations" -- a move he says will strengthen the U.S. war on the drug trade.

Amanda Knox, the American woman convicted of murder by an Italian court in 2009, has been freed after an appeals court overturned the decision on Monday. Her co-defendant and former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, was cleared as well.

A three-judge federal panel has issued a temporary injunction against the state of Texas, saying the state's new redistricting maps cannot be implemented until they are cleared by a federal court in Washington, D.C.

Texas lakes and waterways -- that once were good places to fish and swim -- aren't as fun or safe as they used to be.  State officials say more and more dangerous exotic fish are turning up.  The latest is a real live meat-eating piranha, caught, in of all places, a recreational lake at a county park outside Houston.