Supporters of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have set up a fund to help her pay off more than $500,000 in legal fees incurred while defending herself against ethics complaints.

Three Bush administration lawyers who worked in an elite Justice Department unit face further scrutiny over their advice on how to conduct tough interrogations of terror suspects, but criminal prosecution remains only an outside possibility.

In an April 19 story about a poll finding public support for government-paid legal services for the poor, The Associated Press misidentified the poll’s sponsor. The survey was commissioned by the American Bar Association, not the Legal Services Corp.

Americans strongly support government-paid legal services for the poor, says a poll commissioned by the Legal Services Corp.

Legal experts says there’s no need for a new investigation into what caused a Kentucky nightclub blaze that killed 165 people more than 30 years ago.

Legal analysts are divided over whether the Supreme Court would re-examine expert witness rules if former Qwest Communications chief Joe Nacchio appeals his conviction on $52 million worth of illegal stock sales.

Legal roadblocks will likely doom an effort launched this week to recall U.S. Rep. Ahn “Joseph” Cao, the Vietnamese Republican who scored a surprise December victory in a predominantly black, mostly Democratic New Orleans congressional district.

DNA from key evidence in a Tennessee woman’s slaying does not match the man who spent more than two decades on death row for killing her, according to new FBI lab tests.

British insurance company Legal & General PLC posted a better-than-expected 3 percent rise in new business in 2008, but its shares dropped more than 7 percent Thursday after it failed to reassure investors about its capital position.

A blond girl heads from a playground into a women’s restroom. A scruffy man, lurking outside, darts in behind her. “Your City Commission Made This Legal,” the words on the TV screen read. And it’s true, sort of.