British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...

Florida authorities re-open family execution case after Biden commuted sentences The Escobedo family was found murdered execution-style along the Florida's Turnpike in Fort Pierce on Oct. 13, 2006.

For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.

Punakha—The Punakha Dzongkhag Court as sentenced Tshering Penjor, a 46-year-old open-air prisoner (OAP) from Trashigang, to an additional five years in prison for the criminal attempt of statutory ...

Mark Spitzer has a gut-wrenching perspective on the decision by a Sonoma County judge to reconsider the 12-year prison sentence for Dylan Morse, a Central Valley teenager convicted of a fatal drunken ...