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A 12-year-old girl who was shot by her mother during a standoff inside a Texas food stamp office died of her wounds late Wednesday night, officials said Thursday.

The wife of the former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, accused of serial child sexual abuse, said on Thursday she believes the charges against her husband are absolutely untrue.

A gunman ambushed and killed a campus police officer and was later reported to have been found dead on Thursday at Virginia Tech University, the site of one of the worst shooting rampages in U.S. history.

A gunman killed a police officer and another person on Thursday at Virginia Tech University, the site of one of the worst shooting rampages in U.S. history, school officials said.

After his arrest Wednesday on the charge of 12 new child sex abuse counts involving two new alleged victims, former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was released from an overnight jail stay Thursday after posting bail.

Rats would rather release fellow species from restraints than have a bite of chocolate, a new study shows, giving evidence that empathy may extend across the animal kingdom.

From the 2010 study, activity of people surfing the Internet, sending text messages and other mobile communication activities increased in the most recent survey to 0.9 percent of all drivers, up from 0.6 percent the previous year.

Twitter announced Thursday plans to introduce brand pages, similar to Facebook.

Virginia Tech has postponed Friday's exams after an unnamed shooter killed two people on the school's campus on Thursday.

Virginia Tech University said Thursday two people were killed -- a police officer and another person -- each shot dead by a gunman still on the loose.

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Virginia Tech reported Thursday that shots were fired on it campus. So far, one victim has been listed as a police officer, another possible victim has not been confirmed.

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The mother of Ruben Arzu, the naked 300-pound bodybuilder who savagely attacked a couple on Saturday, said he suffers from a mental illness which led to the attack.

Authorities are investigating an accidental death at California State University Wednesday involving an employee who was killed in an accident in the elevator shaft on campus.

Ramie Marie Grimmer, 12, whose mother fatally shot her and critically wounded her 10-year-old brother, Timothy Grimmer, on Monday, knew she was going to die that night and made several chilling Facebook posts.

Southeast Asian stock markets fell on Thursday, anxious about coming key events in the euro zone and as doubts emerged about the ability of European leaders to agree on a plan to tackle that region's debt crisis.

Crystal Cox, a self-proclaimed investigative blogger, has been ordered to pay $2.5 million for defamation.

A public memorial for Fox 4 Kansas City meteorologist Don Harman, who died last week of suicide, will be held Dec. 17 from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. at Kansas City Union Station's Grand Hall, according to the Kansas City Star.

An aircraft operated by Sundance Helicopters crashed into a mountainside near Lake Mead shortly before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, killing the pilot and four passengers. Their identities haven't been released. According to The Associated Press, teams of recovery and investigative personnel are heading to the crash site.

There have been several twists and turns in the case of missing infant Lisa Irwin, since the little girl was reported missing from her Kansas City home on Oct. 4. However, a new revelation awaits; this one, by yet another psychic, Carla Baron, who, in an exclusive interview with Gather News, suggested the child was safe and happy.

Those who are habitually hooked on to their mobile phones while driving and whom warnings and punishments cannot deter, can now bank on a technology that can literally shut phones down when the owner is at the wheel.

An Indonesian policeman, who shot to fame after a YouTube video of him lip-synching and dancing to a Bollywood song went viral, has been fired from his job after failing to report to work.

Airbus SAS has set a record order of intakes of aircrafts after the introduction of the A320neo, beating rivals Boeing in the process.

The mysterious V-shaped stone carvings discovered on the bedrock in the oldest section of Jerusalem have left Israeli archaeologists puzzled, who are unable arrive at a theory explaining its nature.

Personal information about Los Angeles police commanders has been posted on the Internet, prompting an investigation into where it was obtained, an LAPD spokesman said on Wednesday.

Baseball home run king Barry Bonds should receive no jail time for his conviction on a single criminal count related to an investigation of steroids in sports, his attorneys argued in a court filing on Tuesday.

At least nine prisoners suffered stab and gunshot wounds during a riot of about 50 inmates at a California prison on Wednesday that was eventually quelled, authorities said.

Joe Amendola, Jerry Sandusky's lawyer in the Penn State child sex abuse case, told reporters last week that his client may consider a guilty plea if more victims come forward. As new allegations surface, however, Amendola insists a plea deal was never on the table, instead outlining a defense strategy to undermine victim testimony and credibility.