Law & Society

A judge in California expressed his disbelief at a crime case that landed in his court, saying he could not "understand" the murder of five people, three of them children, by two half-brothers immersed in a dispute over properties in Mexico.

Mexican troops have killed 19 people suspected of being members of the Sinaloa Cartel in a shooting that took place in the northwestern state of the country, the ministry of defense said.

Sebastian Rogers, a 15-year-old boy with autism, vanished from the Hendersonville, Tennessee, home he shared with his mother and stepfather Feb. 25.