Illegal immigrants could become citizens in 15 years under legislation being drafted by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers, a timeline two years longer than under a similar Senate bill.

A group of Colorado sheriffs and members of the firearms industry have filed a lawsuit to overturn gun restrictions recently passed in the state, a key testing ground in the national debate over gun control.

"Get it in writing," goes the popular caveat. Oxnard's ballooning legal dispute over two movie theaters, sparked by an unfinished plan for distributing $8 million and now a purported handshake-deal to skip loan payments, may be a case in point.

Leo is a big, fluffy boy waiting for a home. He is a neutered male. Leo gets along with the cats in the shelter's cat room.

Marcia Coyle skillfully reports on the aggressive turn the Supreme Court has taken under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

At his confirmation hearings for the position of chief justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr. parried skeptics with a reassuring metaphor: "Judges are like umpires," he memorably testified. "Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical to make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role."

Detective Inspector Jack Caffery and Sgt. Flea Marley investigate strange occurrences at a psychiatric hospital and the disappearance of a footballer's wife.

Since introducing Detective Inspector Jack Caffery 14 years ago in "Birdman," Mo Hayder has written some of the grisliest crime fiction in recent memory. Caffery's cases in London and, later, in Bristol's Major Crime Investigation Team, have included the murder and bizarre postmortem autopsies of women by a surgically trained serial killer, abducted children and sadistic African rituals. That's enough evil to keep readers awake long after the cases are solved.