A costly campaign by abortion-rights advocates for state supreme court seats yielded mixed results in Tuesday’s election, ...

Amendment 4 would have protected the right to get an abortion until viability, which is generally around 24 weeks of pregnancy. Florida law bans most abortions after six weeks. Since that law was ...

Supporters say the amendment protects reproductive rights. Opponents warn it could lead to extreme, unregulated abortion laws.

An Ohio judge permanently enjoined a state law blocking abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, nearly a year after voters in the state enshrined a right to an abortion in the Buckeye State ...

The final decision to shorten the Menendez brothers’ sentences and release them out of prison rests with a judge, not the district attorney. “No matter what the DA says, no matter what the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The most far-reaching of Ohio’s laws restricting abortion was struck down on Thursday by a county judge who said last year’s voter-approved amendment enshrining reproductive ...

Judge Sentences Man Who Killed Chicago's 'Walking Man' in Arson Attack to 47 Years CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has sentenced an Illinois man convicted of killing a homeless person known as Chicago's ...

An Ohio county judge issued a permanent injunction Thursday blocking the state from enforcing its “heartbeat” abortion ban, the first time the entire law has been permanently blocked following the ...