Crystal Denean Harvell could have been sentenced to as much as 40 years behind bars after pleading guilty to wire fraud and ...

Do you ever get confused between “lie” and “lay,” particularly in the past tense? How about the proper time to use “who” and “whom”? Does trying to explain past participles make your brain cells go on ...

Wisconsin Watch has fact-checked 10 claims related to Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel.

Utterances like um, wow and mm-hmm used to be dismissed as irrelevant linguistic detritus. But some linguists now think they play an essential role in regulating conversations, and may be the hardest ...

Johnathan Jackson, of Richmond, was sentenced to 60 years in prison, with 20 suspended, for killing a man at a bus stop ...

Louisiana is scheduled to execute a man with nitrogen gas on March 18. Arkansas lawmakers are seeking to introduce nitrogen ...

The truck driver that crashed into a van off Interstate 5 in May 2023 killing seven farmworkers was sentenced to 48 years in prison on Tuesday.

Language experts point out that certain sentence constructs using 'because' or 'why' can veer off into questionable ...

And here’s the thing: the words you use matter. There are certain phrases that naturally signal confidence, self-respect, and strength. If you use them often, chances are, you have a powerful presence ...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has commuted the sentence of a White Fairfax County cop convicted in the 2023 shooting death of an unarmed Black shoplifting suspect. “I have today used the ...

In half a century, only 17 of the hundreds of women serving life sentences in Pennsylvania have been offered ... There are no written benchmarks a person can use to understand whether they might be a ...