(CNN) -- The judge overseeing the Trayvon Martin case in Florida set bond for George Zimmerman at $1 million on Thursday.

A controversial case may allow the Mississippi Supreme Court to determine if statutory rape is a violent crime under state law.
Chris Taylor got a life sentence as a habitual offender. The sentence could only be imposed if one of his convictions was a violent crime –in this case, statutory rape.

 

Two outcomes in the final days of his seventh year on the court offer some clues for reassessing what kind of chief justice Roberts is and intends to be.

A Mississippi man is mentally competent to stand trial in August on charges he shot at three men in what prosecutors call a racially motivated attack in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, a federal magistrate ruled Monday.

(CNN) -- The family of a former Marine fatally shot by police inside his White Plains, New York, apartment filed a $21 million federal lawsuit Monday morning.

(CNN) -- Out of power since Friday, Bethesda, Maryland, resident Jacqueline Hirsch went to the library to seek relief from the heat, only to find hundreds of others had the same idea.

(CNN) -- The Marines plan to swell the arsenal of their newest small drone over the next five years by more than 12 times the current level -- the largest proportional increase of any of the military's unmanned aircraft.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- When the National Rifle Association decided to keep track of those House members on both sides of the aisle who voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress last week, it was also sending a message to a number of embattled Democratic congressmen seeking re-election in conservative districts in the fall.

JACKSON, Mississippi (CNN) -- A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Sunday that will allow the only abortion clinic operating in Mississippi to stay open -- for now.

(CNN) -- The priceless, 8,000-piece collection of rare African-American memorabilia Nathaniel Montague spent decades collecting could be dismantled if a buyer doesn't come forward by mid-July.