Six veteran homicide detectives are leading a new task force investigating the unsolved 1997 killing of Notorious B.I.G., a Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman said Monday. The new probe comes in the wake of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the rapper's mother, Voletta Wallace, and other relatives, who claim rogue police officers were involved in the killing.

Six veteran homicide detectives are leading a new task force investigating the unsolved 1997 killing of Notorious B.I.G., a Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman said Monday.

Michael Gansas, the former Staten Island ferry captain in command of the Andrew J. Barberi when it was involved in a fatal crash that killed 11 people, lost Monday in a bid to sue the city for firing him.

The lawyer for a former FBI agent told a jury that Vioxx caused his client's heart attack and the blockbuster drug's maker Merck & Co Inc. ignored danger signs from its withdrawn pain medicine as the second federal trial opened in New Orleans on Monday.

The lawyer for a former FBI agent told a jury that Vioxx caused his client's heart attack and the blockbuster drug's maker Merck & Co Inc. ignored danger signs from its withdrawn pain medicine as the second federal trial opened in New Orleans on Monday.

CHICAGO -- A woman claims an unsecured toilet seat in a Borders Bookstore caused her to fall and become “permanently disfigured.”

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) -The widow of a man who was critically injured and later died after trying to stop a purse snatching has sued the hospital where he was treated and two of his doctors.

The California Supreme Court ruled today that the trustees of California State University must prepare a new environmental impact report on a planned expansion of a campus in Monterey County.

(AP) _ The family of a teenager killed by officers has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Brownsville Police and border authorities. Brownsville police and U-S Customs and Border Protection Agents

NEW YORK (AP) - Fox News has settled a lawsuit with four women who claimed a vice president sexually harassed them, creating a hostile workplace, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Monday. The settlement, submitted for approval in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, includes $225,000 for the women, the EEOC said in a statement. The settlement also requires that Fox News take steps