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The jurors who will hear George Zimmerman's murder trial will have to be sequestered for up to a month, the judge ruled on Thursday.

"Edward Snowden is a national hero and should be immediately issued a full, free and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret National Security Agency surveillance programs." And so reads a White House "We the People" online petition established Sunday

Jury selection for the trial of George Zimmerman, who is charged with the second-degree murder of a Florida teenager, kicks off on Monday.

George Zimmerman, the former Neighborhood Watch volunteer who is on trial for shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, wants to testify in his defense, RadarOnline.com exclusively reported today.

A Florida judge placed limits on what George Zimmerman's lawyer can say about the 17-year-old teen he fatally shot during the neighborhood watch leader's murder trial next month.

The court has been besieged by a flurry of last-minute filings in the case of George Zimmerman, whose neighborhood watch shooting of Trayvon Martin is supposed to head to a procedural hearing on Tuesday.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Atlanta Wednesday to protest "Stand Your Ground" laws, marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton has proposed anti-racial profiling legislation to mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

Attorneys for George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed teen-age Trayvon Martin in February 2012, asked the judge Wednesday to delay the trial.

George Zimmerman must remain under 24-hour GPS monitoring while awaiting trial in the fatal shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin and must stay in the county despite the defense's concerns about his safety, a judge ruled Tuesday.
The Texas prosecutor responsible for investigating public corruption among state officials said Tuesday that he has opened an investigation into the state's troubled $3 billion cancer-fighting agency.

George Zimmerman sued NBC on Thursday, claiming he was defamed when the network edited his 911 call to police after the shooting of Trayvon Martin to make it sound like he was racist.
George Zimmerman sued NBC on Thursday, claiming he was defamed when the network edited his 911 call to police after the shooting of Trayvon Martin to make it sound like he was racist.
Big Tex, the metal cowboy whose slow drawl of "Howdy, folks!" made him an icon of the State Fair of Texas for 60 years, was destroyed Friday when flames engulfed his 52-foot-tall frame.

A judge on Wednesday set a tentative trial date next year for a neighborhood watch volunteer charged with fatally shooting Trayvon Martin.
He claims he was acting in self-defense; attorneys for Mr. Martin's family say he did not need to pull his weapon.
I think the more people armed, the better," she said, adding that the media reports only furthered her belief that Mr. Zimmerman was defending himself when he shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.