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Search for body of UNH student put on hold
The search for the body of a 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student was suspended Sunday ahead of the arraignment for a martial arts ...
Suspect charged in death of missing UNH student
An actor and martial arts instructor was charged in the death of a 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student who disappeared last week, and the ...
Missing NH college student dead; suspect charged
A martial arts instructor active in community theater was charged Saturday in the death of a 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student who ...
A public law school faces trial over liberal bias
Praised by colleagues as smart, friendly and passionate about the law, Teresa Wagner was a leading candidate when two jobs came open to teach writing ...
Kyrgyz ex-president's son arrested in London
The fugitive son of Kyrgyzstan's deposed president has been arrested by police in London on a U.S. extradition warrant on suspicion of fraud, British ...
Authorities: Body is that of missing Colo. girl
The weeklong search for a 10-year-old Colorado girl became a murder investigation after authorities identified a body found in a suburban Denver park ...
Anticipation builds in Maine prostitution case
The anticipation is building for residents of this seaside community waiting to find out the names of those accused of giving business to a Zumba ...
Body encased in concrete identified as Fla. man
Authorities on Friday identified the body of a man who was found entombed in concrete in the backyard of a northeast Georgia home. The man has been ...
Chicago schools CEO replaced after 17 months
Just three weeks after Chicago teachers returned to the classroom following a bitter strike, Mayor Rahm Emanuel replaced his schools CEO with a ...
Feds: Passenger had murder directions on computer
A teacher arrested at Los Angeles International Airport wearing a bulletproof vest and with checked bags containing knives, body bags, a smoke grenade ...
Maine town's agony prolonged in prostitution case
Residents of this seaside community will have to wait at least the weekend to learn which of their friends and neighbors stand accused of giving ...
Ind. doctor nabbed in Italy gets 7 years in prison
A former Indiana surgeon arrested on a snowy Italian mountainside after five years on the run was handed a stiff prison term Friday for billing ...
Mom gets 99 years in prison for gluing tot's hands
A Dallas woman who beat her 2-year-old daughter and glued the toddler's hands to a wall was sentenced Friday to 99 years in prison by a judge who ...
Colo parents anxious as police search for abductor
Anxious parents kept close and protective watch over their children Friday after the FBI warned them that a 10-year-old girl who vanished a week ...
Moscow: US denial of bail to Russians unfair
Russia's Foreign Ministry has deplored a U.S. judge's decision to deny bail to Russian citizens accused of conspiring to illicitly sell advanced ...
Des Moines baby a numerologist's delight
A dream alignment for numerologists has come true in the delivery room of a Des Moines hospital. The Des Moines Register reports (http://dmreg.
Jury: Detroit dad guilty in missing child's death
A Detroit father who prosecutors say faked a carjacking to cover up the slaying of his 2-year-old daughter was found guilty Friday of first-degree ...
In Pakistan, Christian teen accused of blasphemy
Pakistani police have opened a blasphemy case against a teenage Christian boy accused of sending derogatory text messages about Islam's prophet to ...
French upset by lenient sentences in rape trial
Lenient sentences and acquittals for 14 men accused of gang raping two teenage girls are causing a stir in France, where women's organizations decry ...
Somali pirates release Greek-owned ship for ransom
A Liberian-flagged Greek-owned ship and its crew of 21 Filipinos who were held hostage by pirates for eight months have been released following the ...
Report: 3 militants escape from prison in Lebanon
Lebanon's state run news agency says three members of an al-Qaida-inspired group have escaped from a prison in eastern Beirut. It was not immediately ...
Berezovsky to pay Abramovich $56M in legal costs
A British court has ordered self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky to pay 35 million pounds ($56 million) in legal costs to fellow Russian Roman ...
Oil rises slightly on unrest in the Middle East
The price of oil is falling as worries about unrest in the Middle East are offset by new predictions of declining demand. Benchmark oil 41 cents ...
Decades of Miss Subways smiled on NYC straphangers
It was an ad campaign conceived as eye candy to bring attention to other advertisements in New York's transit system. But the "Meet Miss Subways" ...
Crews to search for 4th victim in garage rubble
Crews planned to resume their search Friday morning for the last person missing two days after a parking garage collapsed at Miami Dade College's west ...