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AP EXCLUSIVE: Taliban offer to free US soldier
The Afghan Taliban are ready to free a U.S. soldier held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their senior operatives imprisoned at Guantanamo ...
4 shot, 3 dead in Ky. condominium complex shooting
A domestic situation apparently prompted the midweek shooting at a condominium complex in an upscale Louisville neighborhood that claimed three lives ...
10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. TALIBAN OFFERS TO FREE US SOLDIER FOR GITMO ...
Attorneys meet to discuss Jodi Arias case
Jodi Arias returns to court Thursday for the first time since the penalty phase of her case ended in mistrial last month as lawyers discuss plans for ...
Bulger trial: The hit man of Country Club Lane
He parks his silver Mercedes-Benz sedan behind his condo, below a deck decorated with white and pink flowers, where a couple of small dogs bark at the ...
Zimmerman jurors reveal personal details
One potential juror at George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial belongs to the National Rifle Association. Another says she was the victim of a ...
Texas auction house to sell John Brown leg irons
The leg irons that restrained abolitionist John Brown after his failed 1859 raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry are being sold Saturday in ...
Developer: Kan. caverns could preserve human race
After most of the world's population is wiped off the map by a wayward meteorite or hail of nuclear missiles, the survival of the human race might ...
Victims' relatives to testify in Bulger trial
After hearing three days of testimony from a hit man who admitted killing 20 people, jurors in the trial of James "Whitey" Bulger will soon get to ...
Police: Disabled Pa. man who died suffered neglect
A 32-year-old Pennsylvania man with Down syndrome was so severely neglected by his family that his body was covered in scabies and he weighed just 69 ...
OH man to be sentenced in dying blink murder case
An Ohio man found guilty in a murder trial that hinged on a paralyzed victim blinking his eyes to identify his shooter is scheduled to be sentenced.
New Colo. wildfire prompts evacuations of homes
A new wildfire in the foothills southwest of Denver forced the evacuation of dozens of homes Wednesday as hot and windy conditions in the West made ...
10 Things to Know for Thursday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday: 1. BERNANKE SPEAKS, DOW DROPS His ...
Cops: Disabled Pa. man dies after gruesome neglect
A Pennsylvania woman and her two daughters were charged Wednesday with murder in the death of their 32-year-old son and brother, who had Down ...
Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe
Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory ...
Father, son acquitted in NY of sex trafficking
A judge who heard prostitutes testify that a father-and-son pimp team made them feel like family cleared the two men of sex trafficking charges ...
Officials: Urban Outfitters pulls pill glasses
Retailer Urban Outfitters Inc. has responded to a multi-state campaign and stopped selling flasks, shot glasses and pint glasses that look like ...
Fluffy cows: Old beauty practice gains attention
Grooming cows so they look like unusually large poodles is a well-known beautification practice in the show cattle industry. But although it may be ...
FBI ends Michigan search for Hoffa's remains
Beneath a swimming pool, under a horse farm and now a weed-grown field north of Detroit. For at least the third time in a decade, FBI agents grabbed ...
Ohio woman allegedly enslaved spent time in jail
A mentally disabled Ohio woman who authorities say was enslaved for two years with her daughter recently spent time in jail after pleading guilty to ...
Aug. trial set for Ohio man in kidnapping of women
A man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them in his home and raping them over a decade was given a late summer trial date Wednesday.
Todashev's body brought to Russia for burial
The father of a Russian man killed while being questioned about ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says he has brought the body to Russia ...
Ex-Bulger cohort to spend 3rd day on witness stand
A former enforcer for James "Whitey" Bulger is expected to face more tough cross-examination by Bulger's lawyers when he returns to the witness stand ...
One of FBI's Ten Most Wanted nabbed in Mexico
Mexican authorities have arrested a former university professor of gender development on charges of sexual exploitation of children and traveling ...