In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

Physicists have long wondered why particles can only have an electric charge of +1, -2 or any whole number. Now we ...

This month, five Ohio law schools stopped their race-based scholarship programs. Those law schools were at Cleveland State, ...

A 14-year-old boy was stabbed in broad daylight Thursday as a fight with another teen spilled out of a Brooklyn deli — just hours before another boy knifed a would-be robber in Upper Manhattan ...

Edmonton police have charged a 12-year-old boy with aggravated assault and possession ... Amy Lind, a senior associate with Liberty Law, said these kinds of cases are very unusual.

The first Proud Boys leaders to seek pardons for their Capitol riot sedition convictions are asking President-elect Donald Trump directly two months before he takes office, foregoing the more ...

The homicide of a 7-year-old Houghton boy was solved, finally ... perseverance of investigators and advancements in forensic science. It turns out, Wisconsin officials said last week, that ...

The law enforcement agency said the boy and his mother took a nap together early Saturday afternoon and when the parent woke up around 5:30 p.m., little Joshua was gone, according to a missing ...

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But time and again reports emerge of terrifying attacks on people or pets. We can only conclude that the law does not go far enough to protect the public from dangerous dog breeds. On action to ...

An investigation found the boy’s death “did not involve criminal intent or recklessness sufficient to warrant criminal charges for involuntary manslaughter under the law,” said Andrew Murray ...

Three men have been arrested in connection with a house explosion, which killed two people including a seven-year-old boy. Archie York and 35-year-old Jason Laws died in the blast in Violet Close ...