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Gregory Salcido, who was elected Pico Rivera councilman in 2000, was fired from the post after the disparaging comments became public.

A 16-year-old Florida boy was charged with first-degree murder after investigators found out that he beat a 15-year-old friend to death with a baseball bat.

The Arizona girl was 11 years old when she disappeared on Jan. 2, 1999 from near her Mesa home.

After being charged with three counts of criminal sexual conduct, Patrick Hickey decided to resign from his Washington Local Board of Education seat.

The husband and son of a woman who was found with her legs decomposing in an apartment complex in Atlanta, Georgia, are facing felony charges of neglect.

The drug, reportedly has a "zombie-like effect," and contains high concentrations of pyrethroids.

The suspect reportedly detonated a bomb in the area outside Woodspring Suites and Red Roof Inn on South I-35, Austin, Texas, and shots were fired. It is not yet clear if the suspect carried a gun.

Sacramento police department said officers were responding to a call of a person breaking car windows nearby.

The vessel was blown apart during World War II's Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942, killing nearly 700 sailors, including the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa.

The sister of a nanny accused of slaying two children in 2012 said the suspect sounded disturbed hours before the alleged killing.

An illegally built fairytale-esque cabin in Washington state contained child pornography.

A New York subway worker fell onto a track and died early Tuesday morning, causing mass transit delays during commute hours.

The photos and a video of the creature was shared by Jeff Warren, who spotted it while out boating with his son around Wolf Island National Wildlife Refuge in Golden Isles on Friday.

The statements that Noor Salman provided on June 12, 2016, just hours after her husband gunned down 49 people, were submitted to the court in Florida where her trial is going on.

Footage of a western lowland gorilla showed the animal at Philadelphia Zoo walking upright on two legs, rather than the typical knuckle-to ground stance.

Cirrhosis is a "late stage of scarring (fibrosis) of the liver caused by many forms of liver diseases and conditions, such as hepatitis and chronic alcoholism."

The study showed marijuana smoke affected the expanding of arteries for 90 minutes.

Logan Blyth, 15, of Payson, Utah, was barred from climbing up the Boy Scouts ranks, which would have made him an Eagle Scout. He was also stripped of his merit badges.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch covering Atlanta and North Georgia that was expected to expire 4 a.m. Tuesday.

Jacksonville is the latest city in Alabama to come under the tornado threat, with the state university and the Reserve apartments already reporting substantial damages.

A family of four that was thought to be homeless was found dead in a minivan in Garden Grove, California, possibly of carbon monoxide poisoning.

A police department posted a picture of a group of teenagers smiling during an arrest on St. Patrick's Day.

After three explosions in recent weeks, two men were injured Sunday night in a roadside bomb.

This year, St. Joseph's Day falls on Monday when the Italian community among Catholics will come together to celebrate the festivity.

The ads targeting H-1B visa holders, paid for by Progressives for Immigration Reform, have come up on the walls of San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) stations and trains.

The study involved 18 men and 11 women with average age of 69, suffering from Type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Multiple people were taken to hospital following the crash that occurred after a tractor-trailer carrying stones and gravel lost its load leading to a multi-vehicle collision, which blocked traffic for several miles.

The El Paso County Sheriff's Office has released very few details about the circumstances behind Nain Dominguez's death and disappearance.

The bill christened Kokito's Law, if passed by the Senate, will give pets traveling in planes the same rights as humans.