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A new State Department program would allow U.S.-based Latino parents to bring over children left in home countries. More than 57,000 children made the trip across the U.S.-Mexican border this year.

The city is home to some 20,000 strays. They roam the streets, they beg for food, they howl and fight at night and they often need medical help.

The food system is awash in chemicals and additives. One woman has made a career out of investigating them. But a cadre of critics says she's creating more confusion than clarity about food.

Humanitarian parole is a rare example of empathy in the black and white bureaucracy of immigration policies. But in the Southwest, who gets it is determined by the agent at the gate.

NBC's Peter Pan Live! production seems to be utterly in earnest — but TV critic Eric Deggans wonders if the show will need a viewership boost from critics snarking on Twitter to really succeed.

Anthony Marshall, son of socialite Brooke Astor, was convicted in 2009 of defrauding his mother. Marshall was sentenced to prison but appeals delayed him from serving any time until 2013.

They were young men when they went to prison in 1975 for a murder they did not commit. The last two of them were freed this month, releasing a joy they could finally savor together.

Marissa Alexander had been sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing what she said was a warning shot at her husband and his two children in 2010. Under the plea deal, she would serve 65 more days.

California's longest-serving wrongfully incarcerated prison inmate is free. Michael Hanline's name was cleared after the California Innocence Project at California Western School of Law in San Diego took up his case.

Armando Gabriel Perez, 41, who was acting as his own attorney, faces life in prison in the Oct. 12, 2010, slaying of Diana Gonzalez. Opening statements in his trial were scheduled for Monday morning.