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Phoenix gunman found dead of apparent suicide
A man who shot and killed a call-center CEO and critically wounded a lawyer at a Phoenix office building where they were meeting to discuss a contract ...
Hispanics to soon surpass whites in California
Hispanics will become the largest ethnic group in the nation's most populous state early next year, the California Department of Finance said ...
Sacrificial skull mound in Mexico puzzles experts
Archaeologists say they have turned up about 150 skulls of human sacrifice victims in a field in central Mexico, one of the first times that such a ...
Great white shark moves back to northeast
It seems Mary Lee's winter vacation in the sunny South is over. The 3,500-pound great white shark headed north after spending weeks off the Southeast ...
Pa. girl back to class after bubble gun suspension
A 5-year-old kindergartner is headed back to class in central Pennsylvania after being suspended for comments she made to another girl about a pink ...
How realistic should school shooting drills be?
"I want to see my kids! Bang! Bang!" the man shouted as he stormed into the front office of a South Carolina elementary school and pointed a handgun ...
Standoff: Ala. gunman holed up with kidnapped boy
A gunman holed up in a bunker with a 5-year-old hostage kept law officers at bay Wednesday in an all-night, all-day standoff that began when he killed ...
Suspected doc killer was patient with appointment
A retired barber accused of fatally shooting a California urologist was a patient who had an appointment with the victim and brought the gun with him ...
Victim portrayed as contradiction in Ariz. trial
Attorneys for a woman charged with killing her lover worked Wednesday at her trial to portray the victim as a liar and cheat who repeatedly deceived ...
Priest, teacher convicted in Pa. church abuse case
A jury on Wednesday convicted a priest and teacher in a pivotal church-abuse case that rocked the Philadelphia archdiocese and sent a church official ...
Fort Hood suspect still faces possible execution
The Army psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage still faces the death penalty if convicted in the worst mass shooting on a U.S.
Police: DNA ties dead man to Mo. prof's '05 murder
Authorities announced Wednesday that they know who killed a University of Missouri professor in a campus parking garage eight years ago, but that they ...
Pipe theft report leads Lincoln police to pot bust
Authorities say they discovered a budding marijuana-growing operation after residents of a Lincoln house called police to report the theft of ...
Report: NM boy offered to stay with girl in cage
The son of a New Mexico woman accused of locking an 8-year-old girl with developmental disabilities in a wooden cage said he offered to stay with the ...
France takes key Mali cities; now the hard part
French-led forces have wrested control of three key cities in northern Mali from al-Qaida-linked militants, but the fighters have escaped with their ...
Aspen reviews 14 mph speed limit to alert drivers
Aspen city council members are considering a 14 mph speed limit in a residential area of the Colorado mountain town in attempt to get the attention ...
Roaming cows create havoc at Mass. cemetery
The vandals that damaged a Massachusetts cemetery this week have pleaded "moo." Police say a small herd of cows knocked over 40 American flags and ...
AP Interview: Top US general confident in Afghans
The top commander of U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan believes government security forces have improved faster than expected and will be ready to take ...
Mexico breaks up alleged border sex-slavery cult
Mexican officials broke up a bizarre cult that allegedly ran a sex-slavery ring among its followers on the U.S. border, Mexican immigration ...
Grandson of oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens dies
A 21-year-old grandson of Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens died Tuesday after being rushed to a hospital in Fort Worth, according to police and a ...
Ex-police captain released in ex-wife's killing
A former Ohio police captain who spent nearly 15 years in prison in his ex-wife's killing was released Tuesday hours after a judge ruled that DNA test ...
Calif. woman, 70, is fatally stabbed at NH hotel
A 70-year-old California woman who was a trustee at a private school and a retired business counselor with the U.S. Commerce Department was stabbed ...