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Autopsy: Russian adoptee's Texas death an accident
The death of a 3-year-old adopted Russian boy has been ruled an accident by West Texas authorities, but officials said Friday they are still ...
Rapist sentenced to life in prison
A Connecticut man accused of being the "East Coast Rapist" in a series of assaults over more than a decade from Rhode Island to Virginia was sentenced ...
Vt. town ponders exhibit honoring Soviet dissident
Residents of the southern Vermont town that was once the home-in-exile of former Soviet dissident and writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn are considering ...
US Speedskating eyeing sexual abuse allegations
U.S. Speedskating began an investigation Friday into the report of a female skater accusing former Olympian and organization president Andy Gabel of ...
1st Polaroid-branded photo store opens in Fla.
The first in a chain of Polaroid-branded photo shops opened here Friday, with its backers hoping to reinvigorate the digital world's interest in ...
Famed free NYC college may start charging tuition
For more than a century, Cooper Union has been a one-of-a-kind meritocracy: Open to any student qualified to walk through its doors. For free.
1 of nation's oldest teachers retires in LA at 94
One of the oldest fulltime schoolteachers in the nation has retired at the age of 94. Rose Gilbert has been educating kids in Los Angeles for the past ...
Meet Gladys Stones, Ohio zoo's youngest gorilla
A baby gorilla that was recently moved to the Cincinnati Zoo from Texas now has a name. Cincinnati Zoo officials say the female baby gorilla has been ...
NM art teacher remembered in fatal stabbing case
Friends say Victoriano "Mo" Moises Byrne-Gonzales was an expectant father and art teacher who had just been promoted to assistant director at his ...
Pocket dialing calls police to Oregon drug deal
Police in the Oregon town of Molalla say a dispatcher received a cellphone call and overheard a drug deal taking place. A phone in the woman's pocket ...
Defendant puts on scrubs, walks out of NM hospital
A man arrested in a drug case is back in custody after donning scrubs and then walking out of an Albuquerque hospital where a police officer had left ...
Local history buffs munch on muskrat in Michigan
Most of the menu read like a typical buffet, with soup, salad, turkey, pork and potatoes. But the first offering at the annual Muskrat Dinner in ...
2 US Navy sailors convicted in Okinawa rape
Two U.S. Navy sailors were convicted and sentenced to prison on Friday for raping and robbing a woman on Okinawa in a crime that outraged many on the ...
Arias weeps as testimony turns to killing of lover
Jodi Arias sobbed uncontrollably, burying her face in her hands as a prosecutor relentlessly questioned her about the day she stabbed and shot her ...
Vegas shooting suspect arrested in Los Angeles
A self-described pimp was arrested Thursday in Los Angeles, ending a weeklong manhunt that began after a shooting and spectacular, fiery crash that ...
Fries anyone? Ketchup crash snarls traffic in Nev.
They didn't need any ambulances, but they could've used some fries. What looked like a potentially grim mess Thursday on U.S. Interstate 80 in Reno, ...
NY dismemberment defendant dons trash bag in court
A man charged with killing and dismembering his mother and dumping her body parts in the trash appeared in court Thursday dressed in a garbage bag and ...
Minn. man charged with murdering missing wife
A missing Minnesota woman's husband was charged Thursday with murder, after investigators found blood on the floor, furniture, walls and stairs of the ...
GI pleads guilty in WikiLeaks case, faces 20 years
Bradley Manning, the Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that could ...
Recordings heard in fatal 'good Samaritan' NM case
A New Mexico man accused of killing a preschool teacher who was trying to stop him from beating his girlfriend later told his girlfriend that he made ...
Slain Calif police officers were taken by surprise
In this tolerant beach town where a mayor once hosted a medical marijuana giveaway and cars sport "Keep Santa Cruz Weird" bumper stickers, there is ...
Livestrong Foundation charts post-Armstrong course
Leaders of the cancer charity founded by Lance Armstrong struck a determined, sometimes defiant tone on Thursday as they declared the organization ...
Boys' deaths add urgency to Conn. gun debate
The family of two young boys killed in an apparent-murder suicide — and state police — said Thursday they want to know why the boys' grandmother, with ...
Michelle Obama: 'hard choices' needed on guns
Michelle Obama says people worried about youth gun violence have to do more than simply tell children they care about the problem and then wind up ...
Fort Hood shooting suspect trial set for May 29
The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage is to go on trial in three months, after several delays in the case, ...