A jury has convicted two men of gunning down a family of four on a Florida turnpike to settle a drug debt.
California Supreme Court justices heard arguments Thursday on lawsuits seeking to overturn the state’s voter-approved ban on same-sex nuptials as thousands demonstrated outside the courthouse.
A Palestinian driver rammed a construction vehicle into a bus and police car on a highway Thursday, wounding two officers before he was shot dead, police said – the latest in a string of attacks by militants using heavy machinery against Israeli targets.
A car bomb exploded Thursday in a crowded livestock market selling sheep, cattle and goats south of Baghdad, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens, Iraqi police and medical officials said.
The case against members of an assisted suicide ring charged with helping a Georgia man kill himself has exposed a rift in the “right-to-die” movement as key players, including Dr. Jack Kevorkian, rush to distance themselves from the group’s practices.
A man accused of beheading and cannibalizing a passenger on a Greyhound bus apologized to police when he was arrested and begged officers to kill him.
When a North Carolina company that collected human body parts for transplants and other medical procedures was closed in 2006, regulators cited inaccurate paperwork and poor record-keeping.
Two explosions shook parks near busy thoroughfares in military-ruled Myanmar’s largest city Tuesday night. An official said there were no casualties, although onlookers saw one man being led to an ambulance.
Investigators who looked into the e-mail retention practices of former Gov. Matt Blunt asserted Tuesday that his administration violated Missouri’s public records laws.
The alleged leader of a Ku Klux Klan group pleaded not guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder in the shooting death of an Oklahoma woman who police said was killed during an initiation at a remote campsite in southern Louisiana.
Crews on Saturday used sonar to search the bottom of the Colorado River for a car and a 5-year-old girl that disappeared in the icy water.
Girls in Pakistan’s Swat Valley will be allowed to attend school but must wear veils in line with local norms, a top official said Monday following a government pledge to impose Islamic law during peace talks with Taliban militants there.
A mile-long avalanche near the Wyoming-Idaho state line swept three snowmobilers to their deaths, authorities said Saturday.
Corpus Christi police didn’t have to go far to examine the scene of one crime – the theft of guns from a police car.
As top diplomats pledged billions of dollars for war-ravaged Gaza on Monday, ordinary people here – from merchants to housewives – said they’d rather have open borders than handouts.
The Coast Guard on Monday narrowed the search area for two NFL players and a third man missing since a weekend fishing trip off the Florida Gulf Coast after crews rescued a fourth man clinging to their capsized boat.
NEW YORK - Investors' despair about financial companies and the recession have brought the Dow Jones industrial average to another unwanted milestone: its first drop below 7,000 in more than 11 years.
A suspected separatist group holding an American U.N. worker in Pakistan says it will kill him in four days if its demands are not met.
Christine Pochot buys croissants in her corner bakery, votes in French elections and is as French as her president – but lives a hemisphere away, on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
Two NFL players are among a group of boaters reported missing off Florida’s Gulf Coast.
