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Family wants answers on missing W.Va. 3-year-old
Her mother is in prison for welfare fraud. Her stepfather is lying low. Her six siblings, some just infants, are in the custody of child welfare ...
Egypt's chief forensic doctor says Mubarak is well
Egypt's chief forensic doctor told a state-run newspaper in an interview published Saturday that Hosni Mubarak has never suffered a stroke and that ...
Suspect in Guatemala killings extradited to US
A former Guatemalan soldier accused of taking part in a massacre during that country's civil war more than a quarter century ago has been extradited ...
Guatemalan massacre suspect extradited to US
A former Guatemalan soldier accused of being involved in a 1982 massacre during that country's civil war was extradited Friday to California where he ...
Woman takes helm following Air Force sex scandal
The Air Force handed the reins of basic training to a woman Friday following a sex scandal in which 42 female recruits say they were improperly ...
4 more sentenced in sexual assault of Texas girl
Four men who pleaded guilty in the repeated sexual assault of an 11-year-old Texas girl were each sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison, terms they ...
Family toasts mother after murder conviction
Relatives of Kimberly Vaughn marked a bittersweet day with her favorite drink — a lemon drop martini, a family spokesman said Friday.
Mitch Albom, charity sued over Haiti orphanage
Operators of a Haiti orphanage have sued journalist Mitch Albom and one of his charities, claiming the best-selling author broke terms of an agreement ...
Bond at risk for Ohio Amish hate-crime defendants
Nine of 16 Amish convicted in beard- and hair-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio have remained free, but the government asked Friday to have them ...
Corruption trial opens for former Detroit mayor
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick repeatedly stuffed his bank account and paid off credit cards with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, the ...
326 convicted in Turkey military coup plot
A Turkish court on Friday convicted 326 military officers, including the former air force and navy chiefs, of plotting to overthrow the nation's ...
Strikes spread to gold sector in South Africa
Strikes in South Africa have spread in the gold mining industry, inspired by an illegal and violent work stoppage that netted workers at a platinum ...
No ethics charge for Democratic Calif. Rep. Waters
California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters won't be charged with ethics violations following allegations she steered a $12 million federal bailout to ...
Police probe alleged poisoning of dogs in Moscow
Vera Lesovets held up photographs of her dog, Yasha, a spunky 5-year-old corgi, nipping playfully at the heels of a German shepherd twice her size.
Family: Minn. Somali left to join al-Shabab
A Minnesota man recently traveled to Somalia to join al-Shabab, a spokesman for his family said, renewing fears that the terror group is continuing ...
Judge says anti-Muslim clip can stay on YouTube
A 14-minute film trailer blamed for protest violence in the Middle East will remain on YouTube, after an actress lost her legal challenge to take it ...
Colo. suspect in court, this time without red hair
Seeking to avoid any delays in the Colorado movie theater shooting case, prosecutors gave up their fight to see a notebook the suspect sent to a ...
Ex-top cop in China scandal gets verdict Monday
The ex-police chief at the center of a seamy political scandal will be sentenced Monday as Chinese leaders move to dispatch a messy affair that has ...
Is China's scandal-tainted Bo headed to trial?
A fallen star in Chinese politics appears headed to trial after he was implicated by the government this week as an accessory to the murder of a ...
Wis. woman convicted in fetal-abduction case
A Milwaukee woman who confessed to trying to steal a baby by attacking a pregnant woman and slicing out her full-term fetus was convicted Thursday of ...
Fiona Apple arrested for hashish in West Texas
Singer-songwriter Fiona Apple was arrested for hashish possession at a West Texas Border Patrol checkpoint after a drug-sniffing dog detected ...
Amish guilty of hate crimes in Ohio hair attacks
Sixteen Amish men and women were convicted Thursday of hate crimes for a series of hair- and beard- cutting attacks on fellow sect members in a ...
Judge denies request to stop anti-Muslim film clip
An actress who appeared in an anti-Muslim film trailer that sparked violence in the Middle East lost her legal challenge on Thursday to have the ...
Video shows Lohan-pedestrian encounter at NY club
Grainy surveillance footage released Thursday shows Lindsay Lohan's car driving toward a man who says she hit him outside a nightclub and kept going, ...
UK judge says Litvinenko inquest to open in 2013
A long-awaited inquest into the poisoning death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko should consider whether Russian authorities were ...