This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. All right, class. Settle down now. Stop fidgeting. Sit up straight, eyes forward, all eyes on the blackboard. Today we're going to diagram ...

Although English-language verbs generally don’t inflect or change in form to agree with the subject in number, they do so in the present tense, third-person singular. In English grammar, in this ...

Adnan Syed has always maintained his innocence in the 1999 murder of ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee for decades — but he was convicted the following year. On Monday, a Baltimore court vacated his life ...

TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — A Texas appeals court has upheld the 99-year prison sentence given to a mortician who was the subject of the 2011 film “Bernie.” The 6th Texas Court of Appeals in Texarkana on ...

Baltimore prosecutors asked a Maryland magistrate to vacate the judgment Monday afternoon in the case of Adnan Syed, whose decades-old murder conviction garnered renewed interest after it was featured ...

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday that defendants serving lengthy sentences under the state's "three strikes" law, and whose convictions have been final for years or decades, do not have the ...

SYDNEY, Dec 2 (Reuters) - An Australian former high school teacher, who was the subject of the hit podcast "The Teacher's Pet", was sentenced on Friday to 24 years in jail for murdering his wife 40 ...