SHIRLEY. Mass.--William "Lefty" Gilday had been in prison 40 years when the dementia began to set in. At 82, he was already suffering from advanced Parkinson's disease and a host of other ailments, and his friends at MCI Shirley, a medium security prison in Massachusetts, tried to take care of him as best they could.

SAN FRANCISCO—If you were to get arrested in Kentucky, Wisconsin, Illinois, or Oregon, or other jurisdictions such as Washington, D.C.; Broward County, Florida; or Philadelphia,

When she heard about President Obama's announcement about offering temporary immigration relief to undocumented immigrant youth who came to the United States as children and were educated here, Judy Mendez, 29, thought it was too good to be true.

(CNN) -- Getting children to eat their veggies may be as simple as a good marketing strategy, says a new study.

(CNN) -- Before 2000, you had to pick one: White, black, Asian, American Indian, Alaska Native or some other race. But now you can tick multiple boxes on the U.S. Census Bureau's race category.

Despite trading barbs on the campaign trail, President Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney don't differ that much on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.

The legacy of Richard Aoki as an activist, scholar, and educator remains at the center of recent claims that he had worked as an FBI informant over a period of 16 years since 1961.

(CNN) -- Thousands of green card applicants will no longer "age out" and have to go to the back of the line if they turn 21 during the protracted U.S. immigration process, an appeals court has ruled in a defeat for the federal government.

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) -- Philadelphia Judge M. Teresa Sarmina ruled Friday to stay the execution of Terrance Williams and grant a new penalty phase in the case.

BALTIMORE, Md.--Any day now a Fanny Mae representative could padlock Sharon Marie Smith out of the house she's called home for 37 years.