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Answers hard to find after deadly NY gun rampage
A man killed by police after a shooting rampage that left four people dead was a mystery in a small town, a stranger to his neighbors and a man of few ...
Social workers visited home before hatchet killing
Child welfare workers investigated reports of violence and drug use at the Sacramento home where authorities say a 9-year-old boy was allegedly killed ...
Anschutz says sports company no longer for sale
AEG, the company that owns the NHL's Los Angeles Kings and the Staples Center, is no longer for sale, its billionaire owner Philip Anschutz said ...
Police: 3 found in Ind. creek were mother, kids
A mother and her two children who were found dead in a shallow creek in southern Indiana had recently moved from Washington state, police said ...
Mich. woman wraps up testimony in grandson's death
A 75-year-old Detroit-area woman on trial for killing her grandson stumbled Thursday when a juror asked a key question: Why confront a rebellious ...
Newtown gunman had interest in other mass murders
The man who killed 26 people inside a Connecticut elementary school last year showed interest in other mass killings, people close to the ...
The Jesuits, veterans of tense times with Vatican
While the Vatican has picked the highly disciplined Jesuits as advance men for planning papal pilgrimages and to run its worldwide broadcasting ...
US warns Afghan leader's comments threaten troops
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan warned his troops to be ready for increased violence because of a series of anti-American statements by Afghan ...
Seattle station asked to post killing on Facebook
A man who told a TV newsroom that he had killed his wife and asked the station to post that message on Facebook was arrested Thursday after a ...
Lew to meet with new Chinese leaders in Beijing
Jacob Lew will travel to China next week for his first overseas trip as U.S. Treasury secretary, underscoring the importance of the nations' economic ...
NTSB: Flash in sky before Okla. helicopter crash
A witness reported seeing a flash in the sky before a medical helicopter crashed into the parking lot of an Oklahoma City nursing home, killing two ...
Iowa officer stops speedy SUV, helps deliver baby
An Iowa City police officer pulled over a speeding SUV — then helped the driver and his passenger deliver a baby. When Officer Kevin Wolfe stopped the ...
Ohio woman, 106, finally gets high school diploma
A 106-year-old central Ohio woman who completed classes but didn't graduate in a dispute over a book has received her high school diploma. The News ...
Poll finds attitude shift among working moms
Working mothers increasingly want full-time jobs, and tough economic times might be a big reason, according to a national survey. In the Pew Research ...
Is mushing limited by age? Only if you have 4 legs
Last year, the youngest musher ever to win Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race said his 25-year-old stamina gave him the advantage to get his dogs ...
4 killed at 2 upstate NY businesses; man holed up
A man neighbors called a loner coolly walked into an upstate barbershop, asked the owner if he remembered him and then abruptly opened fire with a ...
Acquittal in Philly fight that cost man his eye
A Philadelphia jury has acquitted a man of assault in a bar parking lot fight that cost another man his left eye. The Philadelphia Inquirer ...
NY mom holding baby falls 8 stories, dies; baby OK
A woman clutching her baby son in her arms plunged eight stories out of an apartment window to her death in an apparent suicide on Wednesday, but the ...
Prosecutor raises voice at Arias in Arizona trial
A prosecutor spent much of Wednesday pointing at Jodi Arias and angrily raising his voice, clearly frustrated with her unresponsive answers on the ...
Police: Couple brings kids along for UT bank heist
Police in Utah say they've arrested a husband and wife bank robbery team that took their two children along for the illegal excursion. An arrest ...
Mich. grandma who killed grandson: I feared him
A 75-year-old woman charged with first-degree murder sobbed on the witness stand Wednesday as she told jurors how she repeatedly shot her teenage ...
Mass. judge sends 2 drug lab cases to high court
A justice of the state's highest court agreed on Wednesday to ask the full court to decide two cases in which prosecutors are challenging how lower ...
Villanova's Vatican interns get view of history
Talk about a baptism by fire: On the first day of Lauren Colegrove's journalism internship at Catholic News Service in Rome, the pope announced his ...
Gov't doesn't appeal Lindh prison prayer ruling
A federal prison in Indiana on Wednesday was expected to begin allowing American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh and other Muslim inmates housed in ...
Marvel, circus producer to team up on live show
The people who bring you The Greatest Show on Earth will be taking Spider-Man, the Hulk, Thor and the X-Men on a worldwide road show.