
Possible 9/11 plane landing gear part found in NYC
A rusted 5-foot-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been discovered near ...

Syrian rebels call on world to put words to action
Syrian opposition groups called Friday for international action after the Obama administration said U.S. intelligence indicates President Bashar ...

Daycare owners arraigned in Calif. swaddling case
Two sisters facing charges that they endangered the lives of infants at their Northern California daycare center by binding them too tightly in ...

Tax cheats pony up $5.5 billion in amnesty program
The Internal Revenue Service has recouped more than $5.5 billion under a series of programs that offered reduced penalties and no jail time to people ...
Feds: Cartel-linked man arrested on NM dance floor
Federal officials say a suspected drug trafficker affiliated with the deadly Sinaloa Cartel couldn't dance his troubles away. Omar Cota was taken into ...

'South Park' creator skips Kauai court hearing
Trial has been delayed for a man accused of burglarizing "South Park" co-creator Trey Parker's home on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, after Parker ...
NY DA: Too late to prosecute school abuse case
A systemic pattern of suspected sexual abuse existed at an elite New York City prep school from the 1970s until the mid-1990s, but the statute of ...

SC woman pleads guilty, mentally ill in 4 slayings
A South Carolina woman with multiple personalities was seized by one that didn't know right from wrong when she killed four relatives and tried to pin ...

Man named in ricin mailing case goes into hiding
A Mississippi man whose home and business were searched as part of an investigation into poisoned letters sent to the president and others has dropped ...

Chile hunts sect members accused of burning baby
Chilean police are searching for three people accused of burning a baby alive in a doomsday ritual. Police began searching for the suspects on Friday ...
Correction: In Cold Blood-Records story
In a story April 23 about a legal dispute over investigation materials from the 1959 murder case in Kansas that inspired the book "In Cold Blood, The ...

Air Force secretary stepping down after 5 years
Air Force Secretary Michael Donley will step down after a five-year tenure during which he improved the service's handling of nuclear materials, but ...

Boston bombing suspects' mom in terror database
U.S. intelligence agencies added the mother of the Boston bombing suspects to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings, two ...

Famed UK publicist charged with indecent assault
Prominent celebrity publicist Max Clifford has been charged with 11 counts of indecent assault, British officials said Friday. The 70-year-old public ...

Court rejects Pussy Riot member's early release
A Russian court on Friday rejected a plea for early release from prison by a member of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, whose provocative songs and ...

Mom of 4 kids killed in SC fire faces more charges
The mother of four South Carolina children killed in an accidental mobile home fire was charged Friday in their deaths, authorities said.
Dutch cyberattack suspect arrested in Spain
A Dutch citizen has been arrested in Spain in connection with what experts described as the biggest cyberattack in the history of the Internet, one ...

Will.i.am rebuts accusations of song theft
Will.i.am says he's been unfairly accused of stealing a song from a Russian dance producer for use on his new album. The producer-rapper-singer has ...

In Caribbean, gridlocked courts stall lives
Claudette Johnson still has a hard time sleeping at night a decade after her son was fatally shot in a confrontation with Jamaican police and 15 years ...
Wash. judge tells police to return marijuana
Police in Tacoma could soon be in real trouble over pot. The department could be found in contempt if they continue to refuse to return a small amount ...

President arrested in Bosnia corruption crackdown
Bosnian police on Friday arrested one of the country's presidents along with 18 other people as part of a corruption investigation in one of the ...
Indian spy on death row hurt in Pakistan prison
A top Pakistani prison official says an Indian spy on death row was critically injured when he was attacked with a brick inside a prison in the ...

UK terror plot leader jailed for minimum 18 years
The ringleader of an al-Qaida-inspired plot to detonate knapsack bombs in England was sentenced Friday to at least 18 years in jail. Judge Richard ...
Lil Danger convicted of murder in Spokane shooting
A rapper who goes by the name "Lil Danger" faces life in prison without parole after his conviction in a shooting that killed another rapper at an ...
Arrest in shooting at Calif. Little League game
A man has been arrested for investigation of attempted murder after he allegedly shot at the father of a player in a Little League T-ball game ...