Adverbs may be an unpopular part of speech with best-selling authors like Stephen King, but they’re beloved by members of the legal profession. So reports The Wall Street Journal.

A Los Angeles court handed down a rare second-degree murder conviction in a dog-mauling case to a man who repeatedly ignored complaints about his dangerous pit bulls. So reports the Associated Press.

A federal judge upheld a jury’s $1.3 million unjust-enrichment award in a suit that wrestler-turned-politician Jesse Ventura brought against the author of the best-seller "American Sniper." So reports the Pioneer Press.