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Mexicans protest dog detentions, tests negative
Dozens of protesters chanting "Free the dogs, arrest the criminals!" demonstrated outside Mexico City police headquarters Friday, demanding the ...
3 hurt in blast that levels North Texas house
An explosion Friday in a North Texas neighborhood leveled a home that is part of a nonprofit group's affordable housing program, injuring three men ...
Witness: Calif. student smirked while firing shots
Morgan Alldredge had just finished her oceanography test when a classmate she knows well suddenly walked in the open door to her science class with ...
NY looks at 800 rape cases for possible DNA errors
The New York City medical examiner's office confirmed Friday that it is reviewing hundreds of rape cases for possible errors in DNA analysis.
No charges for NBC host over ammunition magazine
NBC journalist David Gregory won't face charges for displaying a high-capacity ammunition magazine on his "Meet the Press" news program last month, ...
Human remains found in missing Fla. boy's yard
Investigators found human remains Friday in the former backyard of a South Florida couple whose baby hasn't been seen in more than a year.
Delay in plea by Holmes disturbs victims, families
A stunned silence settled over a courtroom Friday after the father of a woman killed in the Colorado theater shootings loudly cursed defendant James ...
Trial nears in 2003 case that terrified NC town
Bobby Fisher knew something was wrong. It was late summer of 2003, and police in this North Carolina town had just found the body of his 85-year-old ...
Missing 13-year-old Utah girl found unharmed
A 13-year-old girl who disappeared this week without shoes or a coat in chilly weather has been found unharmed, but questions abound about where she ...
Va. ex-Marine who shot at Pentagon gets 25 years
An ex-Marine convicted of firing shots at the Pentagon and other military targets in 2010 was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison, despite a recent ...
Man mauled by tiger at NYC zoo pleads not guilty
A man who jumped into a tiger den at the Bronx Zoo and was mauled by a 400-pound animal told police, "Everyone makes choices," a court complaint says.
Indiana boy abducted in '94 found in Minnesota
Authorities on Friday identified a 24-year-old man discovered living in Minnesota under an assumed name, nearly two decades after his grandparents ...
Texas court asks: Is man's best friend priceless?
They say all dogs go to heaven. But if they get there before their time, should someone pay up? The Texas Supreme Court began mulling Thursday whether ...
Mom convicted of exploitation in graphic NH trial
The allegations were almost too heinous and far-fetched to be believed. A New Hampshire lawyer who graduated at the top of her class and credited her ...
Sheriff: Calif. teen planned attack on classmates
A 16-year-old student armed with a shotgun walked into a rural California high school on Thursday, shot one student and fired at others and missed ...
Locals say shifting sea ice frees trapped whales
About a dozen killer whales trapped under sea ice appeared to be free after the ice shifted, village officials in Canada's remote north said Thursday, ...
Judge: Colorado shooting suspect to face trial
A judge ruled late Thursday that there's enough evidence for James Holmes to face trial on charges that he killed 12 people and injured 70 others in ...
Large pet reptile found guarding Calif. pot stash
Authorities in Northern California made a snappy discovery during a routine probation check: An alligator-like reptile named "Mr. Teeth," who was ...
Hawaii-based US Navy sub damaged in Persian Gulf
A Pearl Harbor-based submarine was damaged early Thursday when one of its periscopes struck an unidentified vessel in the Persian Gulf, the U.S.
Mexicans doubt dog-death theory, despite evidence
In a country beset by the most gruesome forms of drug violence, many residents of the capital are rejecting the theory of prosecutors that stray dogs ...
NY captain: Ferry suffered mechanical failure
The captain of a commuter ferry that crashed into a lower Manhattan wharf told federal investigators Thursday that the vessel had a mechanical failure ...
Newtown parents want police to stay at schools
Since the elementary school massacre in her hometown, Sarah Findley has found herself driving by her children's schools in Newtown, checking to make ...
NYC firm hit hard on 9/11 gives $10M in Sandy aid
Dozens of New Yorkers from a neighborhood ravaged by Superstorm Sandy lined up in a school auditorium Thursday to receive $1,000 debit cards from a ...
Faulkner estate settles lawsuit over newspaper ad
The estate of William Faulkner has settled a copyright lawsuit against Northrop Grumman Corp. and The Washington Post Co. for using a Faulkner quote ...
Owners try to ID items stolen in NY burglaries
It wasn't Francesco Venturiello's night. The Schenectady man whose home was burglarized in May was among the hundreds of people who came to the ...