
Nov 20 - By Mayra Pertossi, Associated Press Writer
Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago — even when they don't want to know their birth parents. Complete Story...
Nov 17 - By Associated Press
A Minnesota judge has closed the case of a teenager forced by the court to undergo chemotherapy against his family's wishes.
Nov 7 - By Associated Press
A Minnesota teen who fled the state to avoid chemotherapy has finished his cancer treatment.

Oct 26 - By Amy Forliti, Associated Press Writer
The parents of a southern Minnesota teenager who once fled the state to avoid chemotherapy went before a judge Monday and asked for the court's role in the case to end, saying they are following the advice of doctors and making sure their son gets the best medical care.
Oct 14 - By Samantha Henry, Associated Press Writer
A woman accused of forcing girls from Africa to work in New Jersey hair braiding salons for no pay was convicted Wednesday of human trafficking and visa fraud in a case her lawyer says highlighted African cultural norms that failed to translate in America.

Sep 4 - By Amy Forliti, Associated Press Writer
A Minnesota teenager who once fled the state to avoid chemotherapy has finished his chemo treatments.
Aug 17 - By Associated Press
Five people who lured Guatemalan women to Los Angeles, where the women were beaten and forced into prostitution, have been sentenced to federal prison terms of 30 to 40 years.
Aug 13 - By Associated Press
Police say a western Pennsylvania woman and her boyfriend forced the woman's sons — a 6-year-old and a 9-year-old — to fight each other as the couple watched.

Jun 23 - By Amy Forliti, Associated Press Writer
A 13-year-old boy with cancer who fled Minnesota to avoid chemotherapy said Tuesday he is angry a judge has ordered him to continue the treatment because doctors say it has significantly shrunk the size of his tumor.
Jun 15 - By Amy Forliti, Associated Press Writer
A Minnesota judge has denied a request to seal the medical records of a 13-year-old boy who gained national attention when he fled the state last month to avoid chemotherapy to treat his Hodgkin's lymphoma.

May 28 - By Patrick Condon, Associated Press Writer
A 13-year-old boy cancer patient who fled the state with his mother rather than face chemotherapy underwent a round of the treatment he feared Thursday, a family spokesman said.

May 22 - By Maria Sudekum Fisher, Associated Press Writer
Phillip Cloudpiler Landis was raised Mormon in western Washington and didn't think much about what he considers his American Indian heritage until he went to prison.

May 21 - By Jeff Baenen, Associated Press Writer
The family of a 13-year-old cancer patient who fled Minnesota with his mother because they objected to chemotherapy are using the Web to raise money for expenses that could mount as he restarts the therapy Thursday.

May 20 - By Amy Forliti, Associated Press Writer
A courtroom clash between medicine and faith took a criminal turn, with police around the country on the lookout Wednesday for a Minnesota mother who fled with her cancer-stricken 13-year-old son rather than consent to chemotherapy.
May 20 - By Melissa Trujillo, Associated Press Writer
A Massachusetts man who fled chemotherapy treatments more than a decade ago denies being with a Minnesota teenager who's running away from them now.

May 19 - By Amy Forliti, Associated Press Writer
Authorities nationwide were on the lookout Wednesday for a mother and her 13-year-old cancer-stricken son who fled after refusing the chemotherapy that doctors say could save the boy's life.

May 15 - By Amy Forliti, Associated Press Writer
A Minnesota couple who refused chemotherapy for their 13-year-old son was ordered Friday to have the boy re-evaluated to see if he would still benefit from the cancer treatment — or if it may already be too late.
May 2 - By Associated Press
An airman in Alaska has been sentenced to almost 10 years behind bars after being found guilty of trying to force his wife to miscarry by lacing her food with ulcer medication.
May 1 - By Associated Press
A court-martial is under way in Alaska for an airman on charges he laced his wife's food with ulcer medication to force her to miscarry.

Apr 15 - By Associated Press
A small plane has made an emergency landing on a school playground at a west Phoenix elementary school, but no one was hurt.
Feb 11 - By Associated Press
Five people have been convicted of forcing Guatemalan women and girls into prostitution in Los Angeles.
Aug 24 - By Julie Watson, Associated Press Writer
The towering black gate opens silently to an alley with walls of corrugated metal. Scrawled in large white letters on one wall is: "The End."

Aug 16 - By Mansur Mirovalev, Associated Press Writer
Russian troops and their armed allies forced Georgian men to clean the streets of South Ossetia's bombed-out capital Saturday, avenging Georgia's attack on the breakaway province a week ago.

Mar 10 - By Juan Carlos Llorca, Associated Press Writer
Guatemala's first trial on "forced disappearance" charges began Monday in connection with six civilians who went missing during the nation's 36-year civil war.
Mar 4 - By Associated Press
The state has agreed to pay $15,000 to a man who claimed he was forcefully catheterized after being arrested for investigation of drunken driving, authorities said.