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Woman thanks NY cop with $1K, but he can't keep it
New York State Police are trying to find the woman who handed an on-duty trooper a holiday card with $1,000 cash inside. Under New York law, members ...
48 nations join forces to fight online child abuse
Forty-eight countries united Wednesday in a global alliance to fight child sexual abuse online, a cross-border crime that experts say is increasing ...
Residents put ribbon on burned-out Pa. house
Some residents of a Pittsburgh suburb have gift-wrapped something they hope will be gone by Christmas: a charred and abandoned house that burned nine ...
Texas murder suspect surrenders after escape
A capital murder suspect stole a deputy's gun, fled a Dallas hospital and held police at bay for nearly two hours Tuesday night before surrendering ...
NYC synagogue bomb plot suspect pleads guilty
A New York man pleaded guilty Tuesday to rare state-level charges that he plotted to blow up city synagogues, saying he had wanted to "send a message ...
Suspect in deadly NYC subway push implicates self
Authorities said a suspect implicated himself Tuesday in the death of a New Yorker who was pushed onto the tracks and photographed just before a train ...
LA police: 4 arrests in killings of 4 outside home
A man accused of gunning down four people outside an overcrowded, unlicensed boarding house in Los Angeles was arrested at a Las Vegas casino-hotel ...
Obama uncle in Mass. gets new deportation hearing
President Barack Obama's uncle is getting a new deportation hearing after an appeals board ordered the agency running the U.S. immigration court ...
1 more guilty of hate crime in Miss. rundown case
A fourth man pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday in the death of a black man who was run over by a pickup truck in Mississippi, and ...
Sick girl sought after mom takes her from hospital
Emily has leukemia. She just underwent a month of chemotherapy and had her right arm amputated after suffering complications. Doctors say she is at ...
Oklahoma executes inmate for 1993 shooting deaths
An Oklahoma death row inmate whose attorneys had claimed he was mentally unfit to be executed was put to death Tuesday for the 1993 shooting deaths ...
Scare prompts look at carbon monoxide detectors
It's odorless, colorless and deadly. And if carbon monoxide is leaking in a school, it might not be detected until people are ill. A leak at an ...
Harvard recognizes group promoting safe kinky sex
Kinky sex has been admitted to Harvard. The nation's oldest university has formally recognized Harvard College Munch, a group promoting discussions ...
'In Cold Blood' murderers investigated in Florida
At the end of 1959, two families of four — one in Kansas, the other in Florida — were brutally murdered. Two men were arrested, charged and executed ...
Oil closes lower as 'cliff' negotiations drag on
Worries over the looming "fiscal cliff" and the health of the U.S. economy drove oil prices lower Tuesday. U.S. lawmakers have less than a month to ...
Atlanta debates school carbon monoxide detectors
It's odorless, colorless and deadly. And if carbon monoxide is leaking in a school, it might not be detected. Atlanta school officials are discussing ...
Coast Guardsman fired gun to avoid fatal crash
A Coast Guardsman fired several gunshots from an inflatable boat before it was slammed by another vessel in a crash that caused the first law ...
Nativity scene Jesus returned, replacement swiped
A baby Jesus figure taken from a Pennsylvania church's Nativity scene last year was found cradled in the arms of a nearby statue, just hours before ...
NJ residents could meet officials on derailment
Residents of a southern New Jersey town where a train derailment and hazardous chemical leak have disrupted life could get a chance to meet with ...
Holder to help launch alliance against pedophilia
Attorney General Eric Holder and European Union Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström will launch a global alliance targeting online child ...
Alaska suspect linked to Vermont killing, 5 others
Israel Keyes, in jail for the killing of an Alaska barista, gradually began confessing to investigators that he had killed others: a couple in ...
California sea smuggling claims Coast Guard life
The killing of a U.S. Coast Guardsman whose crew was chasing a vessel suspected of being laden with drugs appears to be the latest example of how ...
Explosives plant cleanup disrupts Louisiana town
The cleanup of 3,000 tons of explosives haphazardly stored at a munitions plant has frayed the nerves of residents who evacuated, closed the high ...
'Three Cups of Tea' co-author Relin kills self
David Oliver Relin, co-author of the best-selling book "Three Cups of Tea," said in legal filings about a year before his recent suicide that his ...
Life in prison for Detroit dad in daughter's death
A Detroit father who inspired dozens of people to look for his missing 2-year-old daughter was sentenced to life in prison for her murder Monday while ...