Jackie Speier: Rape in the military is epidemic, yet only a few cases go to trial — largely because commanders call all the shots. Victims deserve impartial investigations and a chance for cases to be tried in a military court.

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Military rape victims need justice

Twenty-three years after the murder of Sherri Rasmussen, a Los Angeles police officer is questioned in her death.

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Cop bristles during interrogation

U.S. Marshals are on the hunt for registered sex offenders skirting the law. CNN’s Sandra Endo reports.

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Search for missing sex offenders

A teen is violently attacked on an Atlanta street. Surveillance video recorded the attack as WXIA reports.

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Teen’s beating caught on tape

CNN’s Dan Simon reports on events leading up to the deaths of Josh Powell and his two boys.

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Powell family tragedy timeline

George Huguely and Yeardley Love’s story seems like a familiar college relationship. But something went wrong.

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UVA’s lacrosse murder trial

Minutes before he wounded his two young sons with a hatchet and set his house ablaze, killing all three of them, Josh Powell left a last voicemail to family members.

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Josh Powell voicemail: ‘I am not able to live without my sons’

A Wyoming attorney representing a convicted murderer recently pardoned by Mississippi’s outgoing governor says his client will not attend a Mississippi Supreme Court hearing this week on the constitutionality of his and some 200 other pardons.

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Lawyer: Pardoned murderer ‘not going’ back to Miss. for hearing

A three-judge pannel with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule Tuesday on whether California’s same-sex marriage ban violates the Constitution.

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Appeals court rejects Prop 8

Students at Miramonte Elementary School will return to class later this week to a new staff because administrators do not want any more “surprises” at the Los Angeles school that is at the center of two child abuse cases.

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L.A. elementary school, at center of abuse probe, replaces staff

Federal authorities Tuesday announced they had seized more than 50,000 team hats, shirts and other items of phony Super Bowl-related memorabilia and related counterfeit items valued at more than $5 million.

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Feds seize $5 million in fake Super Bowl memorabilia

The prosecutor sounded like the narrator of a hard-boiled police drama as he carefully laid out pieces of the puzzle that led detectives to arrest one of their own in a 23-year-old cold case.

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A bite, a bullet, a broken heart, a murder

A 23-year-old man prosecutors say fatally stabbed four homeless men in California will be charged Monday in connection with two other crimes: the brutal killings of a mother and son.

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Suspect in California homeless killings faces more murder charges

Georgia’s Supreme Court on Monday struck down the state’s assisted-suicide law, ruling it violates the free speech clauses in both the U.S and state constitutions.

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Court strikes down Georgia’s assisted-suicide law

A Norwegian court concluded Monday that Anders Behring Breivik — the man charged with killing 77 people last July, an attack he claimed merited a medal of honor — can legally be kept in custody until his trial starts in April, according to court documents.

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Norway shooting suspect stays jailed

It’s one thing to call a cop a pig, but it’s another to put a pig on a decal for police cars. CNN’s Jeanne Moos reports.

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Prisoners pull pig prank on police

The man accused of killing six people in an Arizona shooting rampage can receive medical treatment for another four months, a federal judge ruled Monday, after reviewing a report from a psychologist that found “measurable progress” in the suspect’s condition.

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Judge extends treatment for Arizona shooting suspect

Photographer Shaul Schwarz explains what is is like to document Mexico’s violent war on drugs.

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Photographer documents war on drugs

Agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency raided two CVS pharmacies in central Florida over the weekend, removing controlled substances and suspending the stores’ ability to handle or distribute drugs such as painkillers oxycodone and hydrocodone.

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DEA moves against two Florida pharmacies, distributor over pill sales

Lawyers for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will face off against those with SeaWorld in a Southern California federal court Monday after the animal rights group filed a lawsuit to declare that five killer whales are being held in slavery or involuntary servitude in violation of the 13th Amendment.

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PETA’s killer whale ‘enslavement’ lawsuit goes to court

A Los Angeles elementary school at the center of two child abuse cases will be closed for two days this week as the investigations continue, officials said.

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School at center of child abuse cases to close for 2 days

Shortly before he set fire to his Puyallup, Washington, house and killed himself and his two sons, Josh Powell — a suspect in the 2009 disappearance of his wife — apparently sent a three-word e-mail to his attorney.

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Blast kills kids, spouse of missing woman

The trial of a University of Virginia lacrosse player who is accused of fatally beating his ex-girlfriend, also a lacrosse player, is expected to begin Monday.

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College lacrosse player’s murder trial begins in Virginia

Showbiz Tonight’s Nischelle Turner looks at new details in the death of Leslie Carter, sister of Nick and Aaron Carter.

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Police: Carter suffered apparent overdose

A serial bank robber in California may not be elderly and could be cleverly disguised. CNN’s Kareen Wynter reports.

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‘Geezer Bandit’ may be using disguise