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NEW YORK (AP) -- Within five months of each other, two of the men who helped make "60 Minutes" the most distinctive news show on television have died....

Salon.com: U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border by Glenn Greenwald:

One of the more extreme government abuses of the post-9/11 era targets U.S. citizens re-entering their own country, and it has received far too little attention. With no oversight or legal framework whatsoever, the Department of Homeland Security routinely singles out individuals who are suspected of no crimes, detains them and questions them at the airport, often for hours, when they return to the U.S. after an international trip, and then copies and even seizes their electronic devices (laptops, cameras, cellphones) and other papers (notebooks, journals, credit card receipts), forever storing their contents in government files. No search warrant is needed for any of this. No oversight exists. And there are no apparent constraints on what the U.S. Government can do with regard to whom it decides to target or why.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Misha McLamb helped keep fighter jets flying during a military career that took her halfway around the world to the Persian Gulf. But back home, the Navy aircraft specialist is barely getting by after a series of blows that undid her settled life....

CHICAGO (AP) -- They call this place the Back of the Yards, a neighborhood in the middle of the city once filled with acres and acres of stockyards....

CHICAGO (AP) -- They call this place the Back of the Yards, a neighborhood in the middle of the city once filled with acres and acres of stockyards....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lakeside gardens, dining rooms hovering over water, grassy new amphitheaters and underground pavilions at the foot of the Washington Monument have emerged as finalists in a design competition to overhaul neglected sites on the National Mall....

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Police arrested two men suspected in a deadly shooting rampage that terrorized Tulsa's African-American community, and said online postings indicated one may have been trying to avenge his father's death....

Plaintiff was civilly committed as a sex offender, and his 161 audio DVDs and CDs were seized to see if they were sexually explicit. It took months to do the review. Because there had been no prior case on it, the officials involved were entitled to qualified immunity. As for the merits, he has a right to the discs, but the institution has an institutional security need to evaluate them for sexually explicit materials. Ahlers v. Rabinowitz, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 7035 (2d Cir. April 6, 2012).

This Circuit has not articulated the standard by which to analyze censorship of mail in the civil commitment context. "Restrictions on prisoners' mail are justified only if they 'further[] one or more of the substantial governmental interests of security, order, and rehabilitation ... [and] must be no greater than is necessary or essential to the protection of the particular governmental interest involved.'" Davis v. Goord, 320 F.3d 346, 351 (2d Cir. 2003) (alterations in original) (quoting Washington, 782 F.2d at 1139). With regard to legal mail, "an isolated incident of mail tampering is usually insufficient to establish a constitutional violation. Rather, the inmate must show that prison officials 'regularly and unjustifiably interfered with the incoming legal mail.'" Id. (citations omitted) (quoting Cancel v. Goord, No. 00 CIV 2042 LMM, 2001 WL 303713, at *6 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 29, 2001)). In the context of civil commitment, this formula is easily adapted. A patient must show regular and unjustifiable interference with incoming legal mail; the actions of facility staff in restricting civilly committed individuals' access to legal mail are justified if they advance or protect the state's interest in security, order, or treatment and the restrictions imposed are no greater than necessary to advance the governmental interest involved.

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) -- Authorities say a man killed his mother, stepfather and girlfriend at their Mississippi home before he climbed a cellphone tower and plunged about 300 feet to his death....

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) -- Authorities say a man killed his mother, stepfather and girlfriend at their Mississippi home before he climbed a cellphone tower and plunged about 300 feet to his death....

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) -- Authorities say a man killed his mother, stepfather and girlfriend at their Mississippi home before he climbed a cellphone tower and plunged about 300 feet to his death....

JSOnline: Beloit to pay $265,000 to settle strip search lawsuit; Milwaukee investigation may leave taxpayers on the hook by Gina Barton:

The City of Beloit has agreed to pay a teenage boy $265,000 to settle a federal lawsuit claiming police violated his constitutional rights by strip-searching him on the street and slamming his head into a car window.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- Even if he doesn't have a place in the champion's locker room at the Masters, Louis Oosthuizen can say he has a spot in the Albatross Club with Gene Sarazen....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Within five months of each other, two of the men who helped make "60 Minutes" the most distinctive news show on television have died....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Within five months of each other, two of the men who helped make "60 Minutes" the most distinctive news show on television have died....

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Police have arrested two men in a shooting rampage that killed three people, terrorizing Tulsa's African-American community, and said one suspect might have been trying to avenge his father's shooting two years ago by a black man....

CHICAGO (AP) -- They call this place the Back of the Yards, a neighborhood in the middle of the city once filled with acres and acres of stockyards....

CHICAGO (AP) -- They call this place the Back of the Yards, a neighborhood in the middle of the city once filled with acres and acres of stockyards....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Within five months of each other, two of the men who helped make "60 Minutes" the most distinctive news show on television have died....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Students like Delano Coffy are at the heart of brewing political fights and court battles over whether public dollars should go to school vouchers to help make private schools more affordable....