A federal judge has permanently barred Washington state from enforcing a 2025 law that would have required Catholic priests to report child abuse learned in the confessional, ruling that the measure ...

PITTSBURG — An Idaho man was freed from jail through a plea deal that required him to plead guilty to lesser offenses in the brutal sexual assault of a teen girl in 2002. But first, 50-year-old Eric ...

OLYMPIA — Clergy in Washington will remain mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect, but prosecutors will not enforce the law when abuse is disclosed solely during religious confession, ...

Officials in Washington state have agreed to back off a controversial effort to force priests there to violate the seal of confession as part of a mandatory abuse reporting law. A motion filed in ...

The twisted Staten Island teen accused of killing his mother’s boyfriend allegedly gave a full, gory confession — including that he planned to liquify the body in a blender and flush it down the ...

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An hour into the police interrogation that would dramatically alter the course of his life, Robert Springsteen repeatedly insisted he had nothing to do with the 1991 murders of four teenage girls in a ...

More than two weeks after Charlie Kirk, the conservative firebrand and close ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, attorneys for his suspected ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — The CBS6 exclusive on-camera confession from Lorenz Kraus — accused of killing his parents — has been viewed millions of times and picked up by national outlets, raising ...