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Lawyer: Girl's assault was shared in photos, texts
The parents of a 15-year-old California girl who took her own life after she was sexually abused and an explicit photo of the assault circulated among ...
Lawyer: Girl saw details online of sex assault
Fifteen-year-old Audrie Pott passed out drunk at a friend's house, woke up and concluded she had been sexually abused. In the days that followed, she ...
Canada police reopen investigation of alleged rape
Authorities are reopening the case of a teen who hanged herself after she was allegedly raped and bullied for months, the Royal Canadian Mounted ...
Student charged in Va. mall shootings; 2 wounded
An 18-year-old college student was charged Friday with shooting and wounding two women at a mall branch of a southwest Virginia community college ...
Dealer auctions ex-LAPD cop's gun for donation
A southern Nevada gun dealer wants to auction a handgun once owned by a rogue former LAPD officer who killed four people and fatally shot himself ...
Police: hostage-taker gave no signs of compromise
As a gunman held four firefighters hostage in his Georgia home, police tried to buy time and create a rapport by meeting his initial demands. But when ...
Jury awards $12M to Fla. billionaire in wine spat
A Florida billionaire awarded $12 million Friday by a Manhattan jury in his dispute over phony vintage wine vowed to do more to expose wine frauds.
Colo. teen pleads not guilty in girl's slaying
A Colorado teen pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and kidnapping in the kidnap-slaying and dismemberment of a 10-year-old girl that panicked ...
Driver in Texas bus wreck also drove in '98 crash
The driver of a bus that swerved off a North Texas highway, leaving two passengers dead and dozens injured, was at the wheel in another fatal accident ...
3 Rodin sculptures head to NYC auction
Three early casts from Auguste Rodin's masterpiece "The Gates of Hell" will be featured at a New York City auction. Sotheby's says "The Thinker" could ...
X-rays show NH man swallowed ring, police say
Police say the X-rays don't lie: A man who tried to flee from a New Hampshire jewelry store with a diamond ring worth $3,200 swallowed it.
Water main break swamps Ohio neighborhood
People were warned to boil water as a precaution after a broken 36-inch main swamped an Akron neighborhood, submerging cars, trapping residents and ...
US team using Twitter, Facebook to fight militants
The U.S. official who oversees American efforts to counter al-Qaida and other militants in the online battlefield keeps a quote on his desk from a ...
Medgar Evers to be remembered 50 years after death
The widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was killed by a white supremacist outside his Jackson, Miss., home in 1963, laments that her ...
Honolulu court screeners find pet duck in bag
Security screeners at a Honolulu courthouse noticed something moving inside a defendant's bag as it passed through an X-ray machine earlier this week.
2nd man arrested in probe of prison chief's death
A second white supremacist prison gang member whose name surfaced during an investigation into the slaying of Colorado's prisons chief was arrested ...
Hawaii fisherman gets up close with hungry shark
A Hawaii fisherman has an unbelievable fishing tale: a close encounter with a 9-foot shark that jumped dangerously near his kayak. But, he has the ...
2 killed, dozens injured in bus crash near Dallas
At least two people were killed and more than 40 were hospitalized Thursday after a charter bus careened off a North Texas highway and flipped onto ...
Financial crises for Ga. man who held firefighters
A gunman who lured firefighters to his Georgia home with an emergency call, then held four of them hostage for hours before being shot to death faced ...
3 teens arrested for assault after girl's suicide
Eight days after allegedly being sexually battered while passed out at a party, and then humiliated by online photos of the assault, 15-year-old ...
Bat-swinging Chicago store owner fends off gunmen
Bail is set at $750,000 for one of two men facing charges in the shooting of a Chicago shop owner whose resistance with a baseball bat was captured ...
Rick Warren: Son used unregistered gun in suicide
Pastor Rick Warren said his son killed himself with an unregistered gun he purchased through the Internet. Warren sent a tweet Thursday saying he ...
Millionaire Marsh indicted on sex assault charges
A Texas grand jury indicted eccentric millionaire artist Stanley Marsh 3 on charges that he sexually assaulted six teenagers, according to documents ...
Correction: Nobel Prize Winner-Auction story
In a story April 10 about a letter being auctioned, The Associated Press erroneously reported on the first auction of a Nobel medal. The auction was ...
Warrant: Texas suspect interested in cannibalism
A man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a Houston-area college told investigators that he had fantasized about cannibalism and ...