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Panel recommends parole for Manson family member
A former Charles Manson follower imprisoned for 40 years in a double murder engineered by Manson won a recommendation of parole Thursday in his 27th ...
Ex-Ill. powerbroker sentenced to year in prison
A federal judge sentenced former Illinois powerbroker William Cellini to a year in prison Thursday for conspiring to shake down a movie producer, ...
Newest Navy destroyer pays tribute to SEAL
The U.S. Navy's newest warship will not be named for a former president, distinguished member of Congress or some historic figure from the past.
Detectives detail malnourished teen's confinement
A Georgia teen was so malnourished he still had his baby teeth at age 18 and was so isolated that his sisters who lived in the same home had no ...
Criminal freed over Mass. lab scandal now fugitive
A career criminal and convicted rapist whose bail was reduced after a chemist was accused of mishandling drug samples at a state lab failed to show ...
Man gets 10 years for firebombing abortion clinic
A homeless man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on Thursday for the New Year's Day firebombing of a violence-plagued abortion clinic in the ...
Feds charge 91 people in $429M Medicare fraud
A federal strike force has charged 91 people, including a hospital president, doctors and nurses, with Medicare fraud schemes in seven cities ...
NY teens pay valets to store devices
Thousands of teenagers who can't take their cellphones to school have another option, courtesy of a burgeoning industry of sorts in ...
Man begins life sentence for killing wife, kids
A Massachusetts man who stabbed and beat his wife and mother-in-law to death in their home and then turned on his two young children has begun serving ...
Second gator found in NY supermarket parking lot
An alligator has been found in a supermarket parking lot on New York's Long Island, just a day after another gator was discovered in the same lot.
Katrina victims take on hurricane tour operators
Some New Orleans residents and city officials are pushing back against tour operators who bus out-of-towners into the city's Lower 9th Ward, where ...
Man accused of being Russian agent set for court
The allegations that a naturalized U.S. citizen obtained military technology through his Texas export firm for Russia have the makings of a 1980s spy ...
Chicago police find about 1,500 pot plants in city
In Chicago, a bustling urban metropolis where skyscrapers are as likely to sprout up as anything a farmer might plant, someone decided there was just ...
2nd Detroit police chief accused of sex scandal
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing was elected to replace a scandal-plagued predecessor after promising to clamp down on crime. But following allegations of a ...
Grandfather of Aurora victim begs for photos back
The grandfather of a 6-year-old girl killed during the Aurora theater shootings wants a thief to return pictures of the child that were stolen from ...
NYC seeks footage for Central Park jogger lawsuit
Lawyers for the city are seeking access to footage gathered by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns in research for his movie about the five men exonerated ...
Authorities face tough territory in border probe
Investigators searching a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border for clues into the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent face a treacherous territory ...
Secret Cold War tests in St. Louis raise concerns
Doris Spates was a baby when her father died inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of cancer, and she survived cervical cancer.
Court spares Pa. inmate from Wednesday execution
The state's high court on Wednesday halted Pennsylvania's first scheduled execution in more than a decade, at least temporarily sparing the life of ...
US: Immigrant stole military technology for Russia
An American success story of an immigrant from Kazakhstan who made millions off his Texas export firm took a Cold War-era turn on Wednesday when U.S.
'Batman' charged with obstructing Michigan police
The search for a driver who fled an accident scene in northern Michigan over the weekend was apparently a job for a dog, not a bat. State troopers ...
Kin ready for last trial in NJ schoolyard killings
In a Newark courtroom this week, jurors and a packed gallery will hear how four college-bound friends gathered at a schoolyard one summer night five ...
Vatican police testify in trial of pope's butler
Vatican police said Wednesday they found thousands of documents hidden inside the home of Pope Benedict XVI's former butler, including original ...
Police find high-speed chase suspect in hot tub
Authorities say they captured a runaway suspect trying to hide in a backyard hot tub in southwestern Michigan following a more than 100 mph chase.
Referee charged in husband's death due in LA court
A nationally known professional tennis referee is due in court as lawyers set the stage for a trial in the bizarre coffee cup death of the woman's ...