January 10, 2012
DNA may help Seattle-area sheriff's deputies find a suspect in a 20-year-old killing after a comparison with genealogy records connected a crime-scene sample to a 17th-century Massachusetts family. The DNA sample was taken in the death of 16-year-old Sarah Yarborough, who was killed on her high s...
January 10, 2012
Joran van der Sloot returns to a Peruvian courtroom on Wednesday, five days after requesting more time to "reflect" on what plea he will make in his murder trial. The 24-year-old Dutch national indicated on Friday that he was willing to make a "confession" in the 2010 killing of Stephany Flores, ...
January 3, 2012
An Islamic center official says 2 "Molotov bombs" were thrown at the center's front door A bodega, also in Queens, was similarly targeted Sunday night, officials say The attacks "go against everything we stand for," Gov. Cuomo says Several religious leaders in New York have called a news...
December 29, 2011
A man dressed as Santa Claus called 911 from a Texas apartment where seven people were killed on Christmas Day, whispering "I am shooting people" on a haunting recording, police said. Authorities didn't hear those words at first, but an enhanced recording revealed the caller saying he has opened ...
December 28, 2011
Authorities in Indiana have charged two women who are accused of falsifying hospital records to collect money intended for victims of the Indiana State Fair stage collapse. Both women claimed they were injured when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair in August, killing seven and wounding ...
December 27, 2011
Detroit police are investigating the death of two women whose bodies, burned beyond recognition, were found in the trunk of a car on fire early Christmas Day. Less than a week earlier, the bodies of another two women were found in the trunk of a car parked at a vacant dwelling, Detroit police sai...
