Federal authorities have turned over the investigation of a fatal plane collision to Canadian officials because the accident involved aircrafts owned by FAA and NTSB employees. National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman said th ...
A California death row inmate committed suicide over the weekend, officials with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed Tuesday. The inmate has been identified as 68-year-old James Lee Crummel, who was sentenced to death for t ...
Oregon authorities are trying to identify three young children who were abandoned on a vacant lot in Portland on Wednesday night. Several homeless people at the scene said a woman left the boy and two girls in a shed on the lot Wednesday night.
A New Jersey resident taken into custody Wednesday has confessed to the 1979 abduction and murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the New York Police Department announced Thursday. The New York Times has identified the man as Pedro Hernandez. Hernandez ...
The Maine medical examiner's office has labeled the death of Harvard Business School student Nathan Bihlmaier an accident. An autopsy performed Wednesday determined Bihlmaier, who was supposed to graduate from Harvard this week, died of drowning. ...
Authorities hauled 4 tons of marijuana from the ocean off Southern California Sunday after receiving a tip from a boater around noon. No one has been arrested in connection with the drugs.
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have launched a manhunt for a groom suspected of murdering his new wife just hours after they exchanged vows. Estrella Carrera, 26, and Arnoldo Jimenez, 30, wed last Friday at Chicago’s City Hall. Carrer ...
Florida authorities confirm four kids ranging in age from 12 to 17 are dead in a murder-suicide in Port St. John. Brevard County Sheriff's Office Lt. Tod Goodyear said it appears 33-year-old Tanya Thomas shot her children before turning the gun ...
The manhunt for Adam Mayes, the Tennessee man suspected abducting two young girls after murdering their mother and older sister on April 27, ended yesterday in Mississippi. The FBI confirms a tip led to them to the woods where Mayes, 35, was hidi ...
Two people were arrested Thursday after two homemade bombs exploded at a high school in Memphis, Tennessee. Authorities say the bombs, which were reportedly made with household cleaners, appear to be a prank and not an attack on Craigmont High Sc ...
Sergio and Becky Celis stepped out Wednesday to plead for the safe return of their missing daughter, 6-year-old Isabel Mercedes Celis. The couple, wearing white t-shirts reading “Bring Isa Home,” appeared in front of reporters and TV cameras in T ...
British authorities say an investigative review into the case of Madeleine McCann has revealed evidence that indicates the missing girl may still be alive.
George Zimmerman was released on from a Florida jail Sunday after posting $150,000 bail. The 28-year-old, who was charged earlier this month with second degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, left the John E. Polk Corr ...
In a bond hearing in Florida on Friday, murder suspect George Zimmerman apologized for the death of Trayvon Martin. CNN reports the 28-year-old addressed the teen’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, directly.
George Zimmerman will plead not guilty to second degree murder in the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, his attorney said on the Today show Thursday. Zimmerman, 28, surrendered to the police and was charged Wednesday.
Authorities in California announced Monday evening 7 people were killed in the shooting at Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland. Police Chief Howard Jordan also identified the suspected gunman as 43-year-old One L. Goh, a Korea ...
Authorities in Oakland, California say more than one person is dead after a shooting at Oikos University. Few details have been released on the situation at the private Christian college, but police have confirmed a suspect is in custody. It is u ...
Democratic Illinois Bobby Rush congressman was removed from the House floor Wednesday after donning a hoodie and sunglasses to protest the apparent “racial profiling” of murdered Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Rush hid the hoodie under his suit unt ...
A 19-year-old University of Maryland student was taken into police custody Sunday after posting a threatening message on reddit.com. Police say Alexander Song wrote about carrying out a shooting at the College Park campus that would “kill enough ...
The remains of Paige Birgfeld, a missing Colorado mom who secretly ran an escort service, have been found in a Colorado creek bed. A hiker walking in the Wells Gulch area of Delta County discovered Birgfeld’s body Tuesday around 12:30 p.m. Dental ...