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Man sentenced to death in Texas courthouse killing
After disrupting his capital murder trial several times with profanity-filled outbursts, a Texas man erupted in one final chaotic fit when a jury ...
Texas inmate executed for fatal drug-deal robbery
A Texas death row inmate convicted of killing a fellow drug dealer while robbing him outside of a Waco convenience store 10 years ago was executed ...
Reports show gun homicides down since 1990s
Gun homicides have dropped steeply in the United States since their 1993 peak, a pair of reports released Tuesday showed, adding fuel to Congress' ...
Disabled couple seek life together in group home
With the beaming smiles of newlyweds, Paul Forziano and Hava Samuels hold hands, exchange adoring glances and complete each other's sentences.
RI prayer banner case student to get Playboy award
An atheist student who fought to have a prayer banner at her Rhode Island public high school removed is getting an award named for Playboy founder ...
NY group buys Tesla property, plans science center
A New York community group that raised $1.3 million in a six-week online fundraising effort has purchased a laboratory once used by visionary ...
Evidence challenged: Miss. court blocks execution
The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday's scheduled execution of Willie Jerome Manning amid questions involving evidence in the ...
Discovery of 3 women recalls past abduction cases
The discovery of three women in a Cleveland home who all had gone missing separately about a decade ago brings to mind cases of abductions elsewhere.
19 dead in gas tanker explosion near Mexico City
A gas tanker truck exploded on a highway lined with homes in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec early Tuesday, killing at least 19 people and injuring ...
Police: Aryan Nations dispute ends in death
A 26-year-old volunteer firefighter trying to distance himself from a white-supremacist group was found beaten to death last month in a cornfield in ...
Transcript of long-missing woman's 911 call
A transcript of the 911 call placed Monday by a woman missing since 2003, when she was 16. (unintelligible) Caller: Help me. I'm Amanda Berry.
3 missing women found in Ohio, 3 brothers arrested
Three women who went missing separately about a decade ago were found Monday in a home just south of downtown and likely had been tied up during years ...
Mass. funeral director chasing burial offers
A Massachusetts funeral director said Monday he has received burial offers for more than 100 out-of-state graves for the body of a Boston Marathon ...
Limo driver: Fire took 3 minutes to claim 5 lives
First came the tapping. Over the blasting music, limo driver Orville Brown heard someone in the backseat knock on the partition behind him, saying ...
New satellite appears to be working flawlessly
A new satellite hovering nearly 450 miles above the Earth appears to working flawlessly as it embarks on a 10-year mission to document the planet's ...
Jurors deliberate Arias fate amid spectacle
It has become a real-life soap opera watched by people around the world and dozens of fanatics who camp out on a Phoenix sidewalk in the middle of the ...
Unlikely NY scribe handwrites Good Book in 4 years
In the beginning, Phillip Patterson decided to write out every word in the Bible. On empty pages, he wrote of Adam, an ark, locusts, loaves, fishes ...
Boston bomb suspect's pal released pending trial
A Massachusetts funeral director says the mother of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect wants the body returned to Russia for burial. But Peter Stefan ...
Medal of Honor Society honors Newtown educators
The six educators killed in the December massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School were honored Monday by an organization comprised of Medal of Honor ...
Items from Hemingway's Cuba home go to JFK Library
While most Americans have never seen Ernest Hemingway's home in Cuba where he wrote some of his most famous books, a set of 2,000 recently digitized ...
Pa. abortion trial jury continues deliberations
A Philadelphia jury reviewed laws addressing murder and manslaughter without reaching a verdict Monday in the high-profile case of an abortion ...
Mississippi prepares new push on education
It's early on a Friday morning, and high school chemistry students in Victoria Dawson's class are working equations at the board. Dawson is peppering ...
Bride, 4 others die in limo fire on Calif. bridge
Investigators are trying to determine why a stretch limousine burst into flames on a San Francisco Bay bridge, trapping and killing five of the nine ...
Utah cabin had uninvited guests _ 60,000 bees
It was the biggest beehive that that Ogden beekeeper Vic Bachman has ever removed — a dozen feet long, packed inside the eaves of a cabin in Ogden ...