Backers claim the tests can predict a child’s risk of autism using a strand of hair or a mother’s blood, but critics say they are not ready for the market.

TALLAHASSEE — Attorneys for condemned killer Frank Walls have gone to the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-ditch attempt to prevent his scheduled Thursday execution. The attorneys Monday filed a petition ...

A doctor trained as a pediatrician has been arrested on charges he allegedly sexually assaulted a teenager with intellectual disabilities in an Elgin hotel swimming pool restroom. Trevor J. Roston, 33 ...

Executions in the U.S. nearly doubled in 2025 over the previous year as Florida executed more prisoners in a 12-month span than ever before, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The ...

For people with autism—especially those with intellectual disabilities, or others with extensive support needs—communicating needs and ideas can be difficult. Many rely on intense individualized ...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 10, heard oral arguments in Hamm vs. Smith, a capital case that could reshape how courts evaluate intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia and its ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from execution.There was no ...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appeared to side with the state of Alabama during the execution case of Joseph Clifton Smith on Wednesday. The Supreme Court heard two ...

FLINT TWP., Mich. (WNEM) - What began as online “friendship” turned into manipulation, police said, ending with a Flint Township man kidnapping an 18-year-old intellectually disabled woman from ...