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NC woman sues NYPD over Empire State shooting
A North Carolina college student hit by police gunfire during a shooting outside the Empire State Building argued in a lawsuit Tuesday that the police ...
Victim 6 sues Penn State, Sandusky, his charity
A young man who testified at a child sex abuse trial last summer that former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky tickled and grabbed ...
Jury selection starts in Zumba prostitution case
A judge and lawyers used a 10-page survey and one-on-one questioning Tuesday to try to find a jury untainted by international news coverage for the ...
Prosecutor: Fla. foster girl killed by caretaker
The caretaker of foster child Rilya Wilson grew to hate the 4-year-old because of defiant behavior, finally smothering the girl with a pillow in 2000 ...
Texas college shooting was between 2 people
Authorities say the shooting at a Texas community college was the result of an altercation between two people, and at least one was a student.
APNewsBreak: Man asks to nix OH mosque fire plea
A former Marine who said he set fire to an Ohio mosque because he wanted to avenge the killings of American troops asked Tuesday to withdraw his ...
Recognition sought for church bombing victims
Nearly 50 years ago, white supremacists planted a bomb in a Birmingham, Ala., church that killed four young girls preparing to worship, an act of ...
Algeria scours Sahara for 5 missing foreigners
Algerian forces scoured the Sahara Desert on Tuesday, searching for five foreign energy workers who vanished during a chaotic four-day battle with ...
Rights group says Egypt police behaves like 'gang'
An Egyptian rights group on Tuesday accused the country's police of "acting like a gang," torturing detainees and continuing to use violence to impose ...
Dutch police: 3 arrested in high-priced art heist
Romanian authorities have arrested three suspects in last year's multimillion-dollar art heist from a Netherlands art gallery, Dutch police said ...
Bosnian convicted of abusing his stepdaughter
A Bosnian man was convicted on Tuesday of illegally imprisoning his German stepdaughter in his house for six years. Milenko Marinkovic, 52, was ...
Ex-Stanford executive gets 5 years in $7B swindle
The star prosecution witness at the fraud trial of Texas financier R. Allen Stanford expressed remorse Tuesday before being sentenced to five years ...
NY Orthodox counselor gets 103 years for sex abuse
An esteemed religious counselor in New York City's ultra-orthodox Jewish community was sentenced Tuesday to 103 years in prison for molesting a girl ...
Dallas stepmom gets 85 years in dehydration death
A Dallas woman whose 10-year-old stepson died after she denied him water, even as temperatures soared over 100 degrees, was sentenced Tuesday to 85 ...
Bound, burned doctor found dead in Philly home
The search for clues continued Tuesday in the murder of a young doctor whose body was found bound and burned inside her home in a bustling downtown ...
Owner: Hijackers release ship taken in Ivory Coast
Armed hijackers who seized control of a fuel-laden tanker in Ivory Coast released the vessel on Tuesday after making off with about $5 million in ...
Review: Robert Crais' 'Suspect' is action-packed
"Suspect" (Putnam), by Robert Crais Los Angeles police officer Scott James and his partner, Stephanie Anders, were searching for an all-night noodle ...
Bulgarian defends decision to attack politician
A Bulgarian who tried to shoot a gas pistol at the leader of his country's ethnic Turkish political party testified Tuesday that his only regret is ...
Mozambique: Man guilty in journalist's death freed
A judge in Mozambique has ordered the release of a businessman convicted of ordering the 2000 murder of one of the country's top investigative ...
Court rejects appeal from Somali pirates
The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from Somali men who were the first people convicted on federal piracy charges in nearly 200 years.
Suspects on trial over Guinea attack claim torture
Several defendants on trial in Guinea over a brazen attack on the private residence of President Alpha Conde say authorities tortured them to extract ...
Indonesia sentences UK woman to death over drugs
An Indonesian court sentenced a British grandmother to death on Tuesday for smuggling cocaine worth $2.5 million in her suitcase onto the resort ...
UK tabloid journalist charged over police bribes
The defense editor of Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid The Sun and a former police officer have been charged in connection with the bribing of public ...
German cardinal 'ashamed' at rape victim treatment
A senior German bishop is publicly apologizing after two Catholic hospitals turned away a rape victim seeking treatment that included emergency ...
Berlin police say robber used fake Dutch ID card
Berlin police say a man suspected of brazenly tunneling into a city bank's safety deposit room used a fake Netherlands identity card to rent an ...