Law & Society

The state of Georgia has agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit filed by a black transgender inmate whose case drew the attention of the Justice Department after she complained that the correction officials did not give her proper medical treatment.

Arkansas State University students working on a video project sparked reports of armed men near the student union on Sunday, leading to a lockdown of about an hour at ASU's Jonesboro campus.

Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer is being investigated for allegedly choking a woman, which his rep has denied.