Police arrested a 25-year-old woman in Anchorage, Alaska, charging her with first degree murder for allegedly dousing her live-in boyfriend with gasoline and then setting him on fire at their apartment.
Police have begun the second day of a manhunt targeting Desmonte Leonard -- the alleged killer responsible for a shooting near Auburn University that left three people dead and three others injured. The subject of a multiagency manhunt, Leonard, 22, faces three charges of capital murder in the shooting that took place on the evening of Saturday, June 10, at an off-campus Auburn, Alabama, apartment complex, police said.
David Cameron's parenting skills have been put under question, after the British Prime Minister's office confirmed that he accidently left his 8-year-old daughter in a pub and drove off.
Miami police are investigating a possible link that Luka Rocco Magnotta, dubbed the Canadian Psycho, who killed his gay love, before being captured in Germany, could have committed an unsolved murder in 2009.
The autopsy report for Rudy Eugene, the man who attacked homeless man Ronald Poppo in Miami over Memorial Day weekend, had no human flesh in his stomach despite claims it was a cannibal attack. According to police, the autopsy found 31-year-old Eugene did not have human flesh but did have undigested pills in his stomach in addition to marijuana in his system.
The man who was shot dead by a Miami police officer after chewing another man's face on May 26 may not have been a cannibal after all, according to autopsy results.
A Colorado wildfire has forced hundreds of local residents to evacuate, and at least one person is reported missing, officials said.
Police in Auburn, Ala., have responded to a report of multiple gunshot victims at an apartment complex, the chief said Sunday morning.
Warren Buffett can afford to lay down hunks of cash for a really nice dinner at a swanky restaurant. But how much money would you spend to have lunch with the Nebraska billionaire?
In Cook County, there are now four pending lawsuits filed by employees of a suburban Chicago Heights bakery who claims that they were deprived of chance to buy into a pool of lottery tickets that won the grand prize of $118 million.
Garfield, an adorable chubby cat -- touted as the world's fattest -- is being prepared to enter his new foster home, acording to his Shelter's Facebook page.
A statement from the wife of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been released online, praising the role of women in the Arab Spring uprisings that have toppled authoritarian governments throughout North Africa and the Middle East in the past year and a half.
Junior Alexander Guy, 49, signed up for a cell phone for the first time last month and got George Zimmerman's old number and death threats.
Mister Rogers inspired creativity in countless children through Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and now PBS is trying to foster outside-the-box thinking in a new generation of kids in the auto-tuned remix of Garden Of Your Mind that has become an instant YouTube hit.
Two people and two others were wounded when a gunfight erupted in front a funeral near Atlanta, reports said. DeKalb County police said that the shootout erupted Thursday when Marcus Ventress, the man believed to be responsible for the death of person whose funeral guests were attending, showed up at Victory of the World Church in Stone Mountain.
Sounding more climate change alarms, NOAA reports the U.S. just emerged from the warmest spring recorded.
A rare citing of a 13-foot Squid's carcass, partially eaten by sharks, has made for another YouTube sensation.
Police in Los Angeles are in contact with Canadian officials to determine if Luka Rocco Magnotta -- the Canadian Psycho who allegedly murdered his gay lover before being apprehend in Germany -- was involved in the death and decapitation of a victim in Hollywood earlier this year.
A single-engine plane crashed Thursday in central Florida, claiming the lives of six members of an affluent family from Junction City, Kan., including four children, who were on their way back home from a vacation in the Bahamas.
No, it wasn't Hugh Jackman in costume or a figment of his imagination. A hiker in California named David Messa snapped pictures of a wolverine, the fourth ever to be caught on film, while on a hiking trip in the Sierras. View the slideshow to see photos of the wolverine sighting from 2008, the third sighting in the Tahoe National Forest.
The Boy Scouts of America said on Thursday it has no plans to change its longstanding policy of not allowing gays and lesbians to openly serve in the organization. It's time to change this outdated rule
Is Facebook boring? For 34 percent of users of the social network polled by Reuters and Ipsos, the answer is a resounding, yes.
Kelvin Santos, 2, was declared dead at 7:40 p.m. on Friday and his body was handing over to the family in a plastic bag after he stopped breathing during treatment for pneumonia a hospital in Belem, Brazil on Friday. However, during his wake, for a brief moment, the boy woke up, asked for water and then proceeded to pass away again.
Researchers found a death report written by Dr. Charles Leale, the first doctor to treat Abraham Lincoln with water and brandy after the assassination where John Wilkes Booth shot the President in the back of the head in the Ford's Theater.
NYC's metropolitan area is at risk for billions in hurricane-driven storm surge damage.
Saddam Hussein's personal secretary and distant cousin Abed Hamid Hmoud was executed on Thursday, according to the Iraqi Justice Ministry.
Tinker Bell was in tears after April Spielman dressed up as the Disney character to make her boyfriend's first trip to Disney World as magical as could be when security denied her entry as Tinker Bell for allegedly looking too good.
Colton Harvey, 15, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to murdering his older sister, Candace, while she slept. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison for a crime in which there appears to be no motive. I don't know why I did it. It just happened, Harvey told state police in Arkansas
Queen Elizabeth II may have taken a pay cut this year, but she is still the wealthiest member of the British royal family, according to a recent report.
Rambo the Yorkie, as his name suggests, is one tough puppy.
