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Police: Ohio captive suffered 5 miscarriages
Prosecutors said Thursday they may seek the death penalty against Ariel Castro, the man accused of imprisoning three women at his home for a decade, ...
Feds in NYC: Hackers stole $45M in ATM card breach
A worldwide gang of criminals stole $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining ...
Man held in 3 Kansas deaths, child 'presumed' dead
Authorities in eastern Kansas said Thursday they have arrested a 27-year-old convicted felon in the deaths of three people whose bodies were found on ...
Arias trial now turns to whether she lives or dies
Jodi Arias will spend the weekend on suicide watch and return to court next week when jurors are expected to consider whether the death penalty should ...
Ore. smokejumpers skydive into illegal pot garden
A team of smokejumpers parachuting into a fire in the mountains of Southern Oregon landed in an illegal marijuana garden being prepared for growing ...
Police: Dead Boston bombing suspect buried
The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was entombed in an unknown gravesite Thursday after police said an anonymous person ...
NJ woman, parents admit roles in ex's slaying
When Kathleen Dorsett heard her ex-husband scream in agony in the backyard of her home in 2010, she finished changing their daughter's diaper knowing ...
Petitioners ask marathon to let them finish in '14
Runners who couldn't complete this year's Boston Marathon because of the bombs at the finish line have created an online petition asking organizers ...
NTSB investigating Honolulu helicopter crash
The president of a helicopter company whose small copter crash-landed on a downtown Honolulu street praised the pilot Thursday, while the National ...
Sheriff: Search for Calif. suspect like 'warfare'
Sheriff's SWAT teams are proceeding extremely carefully as they search a rural part of Northern California where an ex-convict suspected of fatally ...
Conn. man thought linked to heist gets 2½ years
A reputed Connecticut mobster was sentenced Thursday to 2½ years in prison in a weapons and prescription drugs case that revealed federal authorities' ...
Deal reached in Mont. university sex-assault probe
Federal officials reached agreements with the University of Montana after a yearlong investigation into mishandled sexual assault reports on campus ...
Mass. panel: No profanity on rapper's headstone
Commissioners at a Massachusetts cemetery have said no to profanity on headstones. Sonny Santiago, 23, was a rapper who died in a car crash in ...
Detroit adds watches to the list of stuff it makes
Detroit has a long history of manufacturing — cars, steel, even popcorn. Now, the city is home to a facility devoted to the production of an item not ...
Ripple effect after fire takes out Wyo. town store
It all began when a man with black shoe polish smeared all over his face exited Interstate 25 and barreled into town one evening last winter.
Hope can be painful for families of missing kids
The miraculous rescue of three missing women has given hope to many families whose loved ones have vanished. Yet hope, when searching for a long-lost ...
NJ vet gets back dog tag he lost in World War II
Carol Wilkins leaned over the side of her father's wheelchair and handed him the small red box, a heart-shaped cutout revealing its contents: a ...
Judge rules for cheerleaders in Bible banner suit
A judge ruled Wednesday that cheerleaders at a Southeast Texas high school can display banners emblazoned with Bible verses at football games. But the ...
Saga of Boston Marathon suspect's body drags on
Nineteen days after Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev died following a gunbattle with police, cemeteries still refused to take his ...
Jodi Arias says she prefers death penalty
Jodi Arias spent 18 days on the stand sharing intimate, emotional and oftentimes X-rated details of her life before a rapt television and online ...
Bodies on Kansas farm belong to missing mom, 2 men
Authorities on Wednesday identified two men and a woman found slain on an eastern Kansas farm and continued searching for the woman's 18-month-old ...
Cheers, tears at Arias 1st-degree murder verdict
The jury has found Jodi Arias guilty of first-degree murder in the death of her one-time boyfriend in Arizona. Arias initially denied involvement and ...
Widow of Boston bomb suspect hires criminal lawyer
The widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has hired a prominent criminal lawyer with experience defending terrorism cases as she ...
Cleveland man charged with 3 women's kidnap, rape
A man suspected of keeping three women captive inside his decrepit house for a decade was charged Wednesday with kidnapping and rape, accused of ...
APNewsBreak: 5 charged in CA immigration scam
Four federal law enforcement officers were charged with accepting cash, a TV, and plane tickets among bribes dating back more than a decade to help ...