A man suspected of killing the Rev. Fred Winters during a church service in Maryville on Sunday morning had developed mental illness from a tick bite, his family has said.

Police did not release the name of the suspect, who was seriously injured in a struggle with members of the congrega

The pastor of a Maryville, Illinois, church was shot to death during a service Sunday in front of horrified parishioners who then tackled the gunman, state

A hockey mom from Chelsea has been charged with embezzling over $800,000 from a youth hockey organization.

According to police, Kimberly Knight volunteered to balance the bank books for the Ann Arbor Amateur Hockey Association, then helped herself to close to $1 million dollars of the ass

A 17-year-old boy was shot at Detroit Central High School Tuesday, Detroit police confirm.

Police and EMS responded to reports of shots fired at the school just after 2 p.m. -- minutes after classes were being released.

EMS said the teen was shot in the stomach taken to Henry Ford

A 42-year-old man bitten by a snake in a Pembroke Pines Wal-Mart garden center is suing the company for negligence.

Jay Richitelli said he is the third Floridian in three years to be attacked in a Wal-Mart by a pygmy rattler. Two others were bitten in 2006 at the retailer's stores in Cent

According to Dallas police, Jermaine Jakes, 29, the son of the pastor of the Potter's House, was accused of exposing himself in front of an undercover vic

Police say a fourth grade teacher in Bellefontaine was charged with prostitution after skipping class and using a school computer to arrange an afternoon tryst at a motel.

Logan County Sheriff's officials say 35-year-old Amber Carter was arrested Tuesday in a motel parking lot in Bellefon

The pastor of a Davie church has been accused of molesting two teenage girls.

Felipe Arroyo, 37, the pastor at the Church of Christ Guethsemane, has been charged with five counts of lewd and lascivious molestation of a minor and four counts of battery of a minor.

Hollywood police

Grammy Award winner REGINA BELLE has been forced to take the rest of 2009 off after undergoing surgery for a mystery illness.The American singer reveals she is currently recuperating from the first of two planned op

A woman in labor called a local radio station asking for help finding her husband Tuesday morning.

The woman went into labor Tuesday morning, but couldn't get in touch with her husband because he left his cell phone at home. So she called radio station 97.1 Charlie FM.

She told mo

More "sexting" allegations in another Bay State town have landed six young boys in trouble.

The Falmouth middle school students from the Lawrence School were accused of passing naked pictures of a fellow student on their cell phones. They may be facing several charges, including

College athletes who drink certain flavors of the sports drink Vitaminwater are breaking NCAA rules, according to a story reported by the Brown Daily Herald.

The paper said the school's athletic department forwarded word to student-athletes that six flavors -- Power-C, Energy, B-relaxed,

The emergency call that alerted police to CHRIS BROWN's reported attack on girlfriend RIHANNA features a woman screaming, according to police.Brown, 19, was arrested for felony battery after an incident wi

2nd Grader Brings Heroin To School Passes It Around In Philadelphia! Kids get sick.

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Cop stops female for riding bike on sidewalk, tries to pepper spray her, pepper sprays himself, has backup hold her down and he punches her multiple times.

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A teenage father is facing felony assault charges, after he was accused of breaking his 14-week-old son's arm over the weekend.

Franklin detectives were called to Concord Hospital on Sunday afternoon after physicians examined the baby's limp arm and determined that he could be the victim

A Columbus man has been ordered to serve to 10-15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl and fathering her child.

Twenty-year-old Austin Mathiasen was sentenced for attempted first-degree sexual assault in Platte County District Court. He pleaded guilty to the charge i

A former gospel band member is wanted by police for questioning after a security guard was shot dead during a gun rampage at a New York apartment building, according to a report.Cops want to quiz Rasheen Gamble, who performed in the Harlem Heavenly Notes - a group featured at New York's Apollo Th

A former teacher charged with having sexual relations with a student has broken a court order by continuing to see the 15-year-old girl, according to Connecticut State Police.

A state judge had ordered Adam Friedman, 44, of Newington, to have no contact with the girl after his arrest in D

Teenage starlet Miley Cyrus has been criticised by Asian groups after a photograph emerged of her and friends appearing to make 'slant-eye' poses.

In the leaked picture, the Breakout

Two North Highlands charter school teachers have been arrested following an investigation involving inappropriate contact with five female students.

Eric Charles Gladden, 34, a teacher at Futures High School, is accused of sending pictures of his genitalia to students, said Sgt. Tim Curra

Police said a 40-year-old Hamtramck woman abused two of her children, including putting her 4-year-old daughter in a hot oven.

Reyna Valentino was arraigned Wednesday in Hamtramck District Court on two charges each of torture and first-degree child abuse.

The Detroit News reported

A Massachusetts man has been charged with beating his mother with a pipe and slamming her head against a floor after he became angry because she asked him to shovel snow.

Barry Sylvester of Pembroke pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of assault with intent to murder, aggravated as

Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson is expected to testify Thursday in favor of a bill allowing gay marriage in New Hampshire.

The U.S. Episcopal Church consecrated Robinson as its first openly gay bishop in 2003, prompting a rift with the global Anglican Communion, which the church belongs

Two men have been ordered to stand trial for killing a Fairfield city councilman in a case of mistaken identity over a $50 drug deal.

Solano County Superior Court Judge Robert Bowers ruled Friday there is enough evidence to try Henry Don Williams, 32, of Fairfield, and Gene Allen Combs, 4

A witness to the fatal shooting of Fairfield City Councilman Matt Garcia says the shooting took place after Garcia was mistaken for a drug dealer.

Nicole Stewart testified during a preliminary hearing Tuesday that her boyfriend -- Henry Don Williams -- opened fire on a passing car he bel

A Massachusetts man in fear of losing his home is hoping eBay bidders help him and his wife get out of credit card debt.

The 29-year-old Milford man, who uses the name speedwerx on the auction Web site, said he owes $22,000 in credit card debt. He and his wife have both lost their jobs an

A Bridgeport Township man is claiming his family pet was shot after wandering into a neighbor’s yard last month.

The chocolate Labrador retriever named Babe survived the shooting after limping back to his own yard, covered in blood.

Babe is back with his family for the first

MySpace officials said about 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from its huge online social networking Web site.

North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said Tuesday the new figure is nearly double what MySpace officials originally acknowledged last year when detaili

The Nebraska teacher who fled the country with a student has lost her state teaching license for life.

The Nebraska State Board of Education voted unanimously on Tuesday to perm

A man was sentenced to four months in jail and 100 hours of community service for hitting a dog in the head and burying it alive in October.

The judge ordered Hyrum Long, 75, not to possess or care for any animals and said Long must undergo psychiatric evaluation along with his sentence o

Connecticut state Sen. Thomas Gaffey's 16-year-old son was found dead at his home, and the medical examiner has ruled he committed suicide.

Authorities were called to the home of Thomas Gaffey Jr.'s mother in Meriden at about 6:30 a.m. Monday.

The younger Gaffey was a junior at Wi

Violence and controversy reared their ugly heads at the annual Groundhog Day ceremonies Monday.

In a classic case of biting the hand that feeds him, Staten Island Groundhog Charles G. "Chuck" Hogg was coaxed out of his house, did not see his shadow and attacked Mayor Mike Bloomb

A former employee of the Georgia peanut plant at the center of a criminal investigation in a nationwide salmonella outbreak says he saw a rat dry-roasting in a peanut area.

Jonathan Prather was one of 50 people who lost their jobs last month when the Peanut Corporation of America shut do

Judging by the number of parking tickets the City of New Orleans claims Mary Kieff has, and the staggering fines they say she owes, you would think she must be public enemy No. 1.

But Mary says the tickets can't be legitimate, because neither she nor her car were in New Orleans on the da

 Back in July 2008, w

A former nurse assistant pleaded guilty Monday to charges he sexually assaulted a 93-year-old nursing home patient.

Steven Laroche, 69, of Brockton, pleaded guilty to indecent assault and battery on an elderly person. He was sentenced to two years in the House of Corrections, with the sen

Employees at the South Florida Educational Federal Credit Union are telling customers to be on the lookout for a text scam.

They said some customers have been sent text asking them to call number that claims to be from the Dade County Federal Credit Union.

Officials said they do n

Life moves fast. You think you have all the time in the world, then suddenly your twenties are over and you're, like, a real adult.

Welcome to your thirties. The past decade was all about life's changes and getting to know yourself -- and your finances (see 10 Financial Commandments for Y

Jennifer Hudson doesn’t always get the material her prodigious voice deserves.

But that wasn’t the case Sunday to open the Super Bowl as she took on the National Ant

Authorities said an 8-year-old girl from northeast Ohio was shot in the head after struggling over a pistol with her 10-year-old brother.

Elyria Police Lt. A.D. Eichenlaub said in a news release that Najia Boone was critically wounded when the weapon went off on Sunday. Eichenlaub said th

Iowa - A Council Bluffs man killed a dog Sunday afternoon after witnessing the animal attack a woman and her dog.

Police told KETV Newswatch 7 a woman was walking her pet near Fifth Ave and Eighth St in Council Bluffs around 3 p.m. Sunday.

A dog from across the street approached,

THIS is the astonishing picture which could destroy the career of the greatest competitor in Olympic history.

In our exclusive photo Michael Phelps, who won a record EIGHT gold meda

A Pierce County man is in jail charged with having sex with two teenage girls that he supervised at a grocery store where they all worked.

Investigators said the Ruben Garcia, 32, is charged with two counts of sexual misconduct with a minor for having sex with two 16-year-old clerks that

Mony Scott bounced his 1-year-old daughter, Isabella, in his arms as his wife, Angela, rubbed his back.

They had come out on a Friday night to work on their marriage. This is the third marriage for 36-year-old Mony and the second for Angela, 27. They've been married since August, and thi

A Greene County man is going to prison for using a dog shock collar and water to punish his children.

David Liskany learned his punishment in court Friday. At his sentencing, Liskany said, "I am very, very sorry for the mistakes I've made."

Judge Timothy Campbell said, &

Rescue 4 Investigator Karen Drew shares what she called one of the more challenging and emotional stories she has ever covered in her career.

It involves a man who was a former gym teacher and coach in metro Detroit for years.

He had a great reputation and received awards and reco

Police say a Milliken man assaulted his wife, who was two months pregnant, while she drove an SUV, causing it to roll and killing her in the crash.

Scott Huggins, 30, has been arrested as a suspect in the death of 29-year-old Danielle Huggins, according to the Weld County Sheriff's Offic

Lawmakers are considering a bill that could make parents financially liable for their child's criminal activity as part of a street gang.

Senate Bill 118 would make parents responsible for graffiti or property damage up to $5,000 if their child participates in crimes for the benefit of a

Since becoming head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers two years ago, Mike Tomlin has talked often of his appreciation and respect for former Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy, who first brought him into the NFL as an assistant coach.

Until this week's Super Bowl XLIII between the S

When your finances seem to have overtaken your life and you find yourself unable to make your payments each month, before you decide to declare bankruptcy you should attempt to obtain debt settlements with each of your creditors. A debt settlement is when a creditor agrees to accept less than the

If you're in a cash crunch and need to find some financing for your company here are three ways you may have overlooked.

1. Vendor Financing

Stretching out trade payables from, say 30 days to 60 days, is a pretty common method for companies to improve their cash flow. Usuall

Federal agents and local police detectives said they've made one of the largest seizures of counterfeit CDs and DVDs in Oregon history.

Investigators said the year-long investigation led to the arrests of four people Thursday morning after they searched seven properties in the Portland ar

A teenage girl was transported to a hospital after two pit bulls attacked her on Thursday afternoon.

The attack happened in the 5200 block of Northeast Fourth Avenue, which is near Commercial Boulevard and Interstate 95, as a 14-year-old girl was riding a scooter home from a Walgreens sto

The following recalls have been announced:

--Fieldbrook Foods Corp. is recalling select ice cream sundae cones that contain granulated peanuts, because they could be contaminated with salmonella. This organism can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, especially in young ch

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials seized more than 4,800 counterfeit purses worth more than $5.5 million in West Palm Beach.

In a news release Thursday, officials said the officers found 4,805 purses, wallets and backpacks on Nov. 26 in a shipment that stopped in South Florida on i

Conservative groups have warned that Christian business owners and others who oppose the homosexual life style may soon be forced to embrace homosexuality u

Michigan has temporarily expanded the operating hours of its unemployment benefits telephone system as the state deals with a wave of new jobless claims.

Most phone lines at the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency will be open until 6 p.m. or 7 p.m. on weekdays.

Saturday hours

Almost anything can be found for sale on craigslist.com. If you've recently been on the Web site you might even have come across an ad offering up a kidney for $100,000.

"Kidney's yours. [It's] As simple as that. Do it as soon as you want it done," William Miller of El Cajon, wh

Police said a Latrobe teenager who lost his right hand and leg in an explosion has acknowledged playing with a powerful firework, and was not targeted or threatened as he first told police.

Wesley Kimmick, 17, of Latrobe, remains hospitalized at UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh after a Jan

People who overdosed on debt in recent years learned the paradox of easy credit: While lenders were willing to let you borrow copious amounts, they weren't particularly interested in helping you work out a solution if you fell behind on repayment.

Lenders often found it easier and cheaper

A 24-year-old Everett man was arrested in the men's bathroom of the Everett Police Department, accused of attempting to sell oxycodone, said Sgt. Robert Goetz of the Everett Police Department.

Two plain-clothes officers from the department were in the bathroom when they heard the man answ

During an hour-long appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that aired Wednesday, former New Life Church pastor Ted Haggard spoke at length about his conflicted sexuality, his choice to try to live heterosexually, and his regret over "betraying" the church he founded.

Police said a man stabbed his stepdaughter Tuesday during a fight in their Council Bluffs home.

She called police and the man took off running. He then stabbed himself in the stomach, police said.

The two were taken to the hospital.

Police haven't said where the girl was

A man apparently despondent about losing his job killed his wife and five children before turning the gun on himself, officials said Tuesday.
 
The bodies of five children and two adults -- the chil

An alligator bit off part of a man's hand at a park in Palm Beach County.

Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue workers said the attack happened Tuesday at 1 p.m. near John Prince Memorial Park. He was flown by helicopter to a trauma center for treatment. The man's injuries are not life-threateni

A toddler in Colorado Springs may have only half a heart, but he isn't letting that slow him down.

One-year-old Sebastian plays like most kids, even though the left side of his heart is missing. Sebastian has Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.

Sebastian has had two open heart surger

Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard's wife says she knew about his struggles with same-sex attraction for years and felt he was "winning the battle" before a scandal involvi

Soul legend ARETHA FRANKLIN has become the latest celebrity to have their star on Hollywood Walk of Fame defaced by anti-fur protesters. The shared star belonging to Mary-Kate and Ash

Imagine answering your telephone and finding out you missed jury duty.

The person on the other end of the line tells you there's a warrant out for your arrest, but you can get rid of the warrant by giving them your social security number and credit card number to pay the fine.

Wha

A woman who allegedly paid for a laptop computer with counterfeit cash may get a surprise visit from the Secret Service.

The woman, 29, left a copy of her drivers license with a security guard at the victim's apartment complex.

David Williams said he insisted on cash in his craigs

When a Utah mom gave up her son more than 30 years ago she thought she'd never see him again. But the two found each other last week thanks to a social-networking site and a typo.

Thirty-two years ago Te

In tough economic times, students at one metro Detroit school are selling candy to help raise money to pay for their lunches.

Students are Pardee Elementary in Dearborn Heights are calling the fundraiser a "sweet deal."

"Kids' lunches accounts have been going in the

A surveillance video released of a judge facing several alcohol-related charges shows the woman using racially offensive language aimed at a Connecticut state trooper.

According to the police report, when Judge Curtissa Cofield was pulled over for sideswiping a police cruiser, she smelled

Dog-lover JOAN RIVERS is suffering nightmares after fearing she ate man's best friend in China.
The comedienne took her first trip to the country last year (08) as part of a charity project, an

The coach of the Texas high school girls basketball team that beat another team 100-to-0 is now out of a job.

Micah Grimes was fired Sunday shortly after he wrote an e-mail to The Dall

One hundred students dressed in black marched slowly around Southwood Middle School Sunday in a mock funeral meant to get state lawmakers' attention.

The mourners placed their violins, books and soccer balls in a coffin. The adjacent headstone read "Here lies our dreams."

A Malvern teen has been arrested after allegedly making three small children smoke marijuana while babysitting.

Council Bluffs Police charged the 16-year-old with three counts of administering harmful substances and three counts of child endangerment on Thursday.

Police allege the

A Hall County family that put all of their possessions on eBay said they're getting all kinds of offers and donations.

CBS Atlanta News was the first to tell you about the Peters family earlier this week.

They have three children. One has Still's Disease and another is Autistic.

I know couples are supposed to work at having a good relationship, but that gets really old. Whenever I try to do something positive, it backfires and we get into an argument. 

As a Christian, I don't believe I should get divorced, but sometimes I think, This is it for the rest of m

Disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard's former church disclosed Friday that the gay-sex scandal that caused his downfall extends to a young male church vo

A Connecticut family is grieving two brothers who died Tuesday after one was stricken while performing CPR on his unconscious sibling.

Bob Gilman, a 66-year-old home builder and construction company owner, found 53-year-old Dan Gilman unconscious and tried to resuscitate him. They both di

A man was taken into police custody at a Plantation home Thursday afternoon after police said he found his wife with another man and then shot him.

A Plantation police spokesman said the man returned to his home in the 9800 block of Southwest First Street and found his wife and the man.

A Pennsylvania man said he considered it divine providence when a bank error put more than $175,000 in his and his wife's account.

Fifty-year-old Randy Pratt and 36-year-old Melissa Pratt face trial in Columbia County Court on felony theft and conspiracy charges. They waived a preliminary

A Brockton man accused of killing two people and wounding a third told police he wanted to kill as many Jews, blacks and "non-white" people as possible before turning the gun on himself.

Accused Gunman Targeted Jews, 'Non-Whites' In Spree | Brockton Shooting Suspect Flees Police

Sacramento police collared two young suspected burglars late Wednesday morning after a foot chase through a residential neighborhood and over fences, but not before one youth hit one officer and knocked him to the ground.

"He (the officer) was hit with something, we don't know what y

He is described as a popular and well-liked teacher at Graham Kapowsin High School, but 27-year-old Scott Milliman now faces charges he had a sexual relationship with one of his students.

Investigators said that the student, a 16-year-old girl he met while teaching an English class, told

DMX spent a lot of time in Arizona in 2008, mostly making court dates and appearing before a judge. Now the fallen rap star sits in a Phoenix jail

A Lincoln woman has been arrested for allegedly tearing off another woman's ear in a bar fight.

Terry Kennedy with the Lincoln Police Department said that officers were called to a fight at Dillian's Bar and Grill in Lincoln Sunday night.

According to officials, officers found a

Three people were shot at a high school basketball game on Tuesday.

One 16-year-old, two 19-year-olds and a 20-year-old, all from the Beecher Community School District, were attending a basketball game between Beecher High School and Hamady High School, according to Mt. Morris police.

Connecticut Democrats are calling on Sen. Joe Lieberman to apologize to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for his comments criticizing them during the campaign.

The request was made in a Jan. 16 letter from Nancy DiNardo, chairwoman of the state party, on behalf of the D

A 21-year-old mother has been arrested on charges of cruelty to a juvenile after deputies said she admitted to throwing her infant son across the room, causing severe injuries.

Sheriff Newell Normand announced the arrest of Shannon N. Cooper of Edenborn Avenue in Metairie.

Accor

Denver prosecutors have charged a woman with child abuse who allegedly tied her 10-year-old daughter's hands behind her back each night so she wouldn't leave her bed.

Danelle Daunchet bound the girl's hands with plastic zip ties such as those police officers use to cuff suspects, accordi

A student at Ann Arbor's Huron High School has died a week after she was beaten and left in the snow.

Family spokeswoman Shelley Steele said 17-year-old Anna Maria List was taken off life support Tuesday after she was declared brain dead. Her family carried out her wish to donate her orga

A man who was sought by police in Texas after four children were burned with sulfuric acid has turned himself in, authorities said Monday.

Tracy Lynn Escobedo is taken into custody for allegedly burning four children with sulfuric acid.

Tracy Lynn Escobedo is taken into cust

After strangling his wife during a Sunday morning argument while their young children slept nearby, a 47-year-old welder called his pastor to confess the slaying, according to police.

Rodolfo Ortega, 320 Coach Court, Houma, is charged with second-degree murder.

At 10 a.m.,

A woman remains hospitalized after police said she was stabbed with a pair of scissors 40 times over the weekend.

Police said the 21-year-old woman was expected to be moved from intensive care on Monday.

Edward Leonard, 29, the woman's fiancé, is accused in the stabbi

A 2-year-old girl is in the fight for her life as her family tries to get her well before their insurance coverage runs out.

Emerson White needs an expensive transplant surgery and is waiting to undergo an operation at the intensive care unit at the Nebraska Medical Center.

Her fa

In an interview with the BBC's Bob McKenzie in 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King actually predicted a black president by 1979. This was in response to a question put to him over whet

A Sacramento man was arrested Friday for allegedly making hundreds of nuisance and false calls to the 911 emergency system.

Jamie Best, 35, was arrested for allegedly making over 300 nuisan

Authorities said a central Florida 19-year-old threw a taco at his mother for unplugging his video game system.

According to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, 54-year-old Dena Moir told her son, Zachary, several times to come downstairs for dinner.

When he didn't respond, she w

Snohomish County authorities say more than 150 dogs living in filthy conditions were seized in a raid on puppy mill in Sultan on Friday night.

More than 80 dogs were found in crates and small pens filled with feces in a converted attic inside a residence in the 43000 block of May Creek Rd

Scam artists who are bilking the elderly out of thousands of dollars by pretending to be their grandchildren in distress have targeted at least two people in Colorado Springs.

In the nationwide scam, grandparents receive a frantic phone call from someone posing as a grandchild, who claims

A US Airways flight crashed into the Hudson just after 3 pm. The FAA reports everyone, including one baby, is off safely. There are no li

“It seems as though gay lifestyle has become commonplace. I have nothing against someone who is gay. They have the freedom to live their life, but in the house of God — although He loves them in their sin — He wants them out of it. I love my gay friends, but I would rather see t

Oprah has a ex-boyfriend that is smearing her name and claiming the she used to cook up rocks for them to take to the neck, but get this, it is all true supposedly:

“Oprah made a “rock” of cocaine and baking soda in the tube and heated it, a method known as freebasing. &

It was a crime that shocked the community -- a man and two teenagers allegedly plotted to kill a middle school student because she was too "annoying."

Seth Woods, 20, was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, WLKY-TV reported.

His female co-defendants were 13 and 14

Three Tuscola County teens are accused of creating a listing on Craigslist.com that offered a free baby.

The teens said it was just a high school prank. TV5 has learned three students at the Tuscola Technology Center in Caro made the listing with the ‘free baby’ offer, on the

Sacramento police detectives are looking for a woman they say embezzled nearly $225,000 from an agency that helps those with disabilities to live in ther own homes.

The suspect is Donna Joe Goodenough, 46, the former officer manager for Options in Supported Living, police say. Goodenough

Sacramento police detectives are looking for a woman they say embezzled nearly $225,000 from an agency that helps those with disabilities to live in ther own homes.

The suspect is Donna Joe Goodenough, 46, the former officer manager for Options in Supported Living, police say. Goodenough

There are shocking claims against a Houston police officer of sex, lies and retaliation. Now he's facing felony charges.

Prosecutors say the officer helped a

A Washington state appeals court ruled Tuesday that state law does not bar teachers from having consensual sex with 18-year-old students.

The court's ruling dismisses a case against a former Hoquiam High School choir teacher.

A three-judge panel ruled Tuesday that the state law wa

Racine Mayor Gary Becker is under arrest on possible charges of child pornography and solicitation of a minor, according to city officials.

The 51-year-old mayor is being held in the Kenosha County Jail on $165,000 bond.

In a state Department of Justice news release, agents arrest

State lawmakers may decide the best way to track sex offenders is to surgically implant GPS trackers in their bodies.

A bill is being introduced in the House of Representatives to study the cost and feasibility of such a program. It comes after several cases in which sex offenders disappe

David Kuchinsky, the former driver for New York Knicks center Eddy Curry, says the player tried to solicit sex from him and is suing for sexual harrassment.

The chauffeur also accuses Curry of making him do "humiliating tasks" and addressing him with religious slurs calling him

An Alaska lottery held to raise money for a group that helps sexual abuse victims had a surprise winner: a convicted sex offender.

Alec Ahsoak, who according to the state sex offender registry was convicted in 1993 and 2000 for sexual abuse of a minor, came forward Saturday with the winni

Sexually spread diseases - for years on the decline - are on the rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting a record, government health officials said Tuesday.

The increase in chlamydia, a sometimes symptomless infection that can lead to infertility in women, is likely because of better

President Bush, delivering the final and most introspective press conference of his two terms in the White House, today acknowledged several mistakes and disappointments -- yet voiced a defiant insistence that he had made the choices necessary to defend the nation from threats that still remain.<

A woman and her children helped themselves to another person's shopping cart at an Orem Wal-Mart, and now police are asking for help tracking the woman down.

On Nov. 18, a woman took her loaded shopping cart to her car, but instead of immediately putting the groceries away, she got in her

Detectives are looking for a nicely dressed man in his 60s or 70s who has been robbing Coco Cola machines in SeaTac since June, said Sgt. John Urquhart of the King County Sheriff’s Office.

The thefts have been at the DoubleTree hotel in the 18700 block of International Boulevard in

A woman guilty of keeping more than 100 cats in her home, many of them dead and decaying, was sentenced on animal cruelty charges.

Health officials said this is the first time in Clark County that someone has been sentenced to jail for cruelty to animals.

Loyce Ogden and her boyfr

President-elect Barack Obama has asked V. Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, to deliver the invocation at an inaugural event on Sunday on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Bishop V. Gene Robinson will deliver an invocation on Sunday on the Lincoln Memorial s

New Orleans police arrested a man who confessed to killing his own mother for money to buy narcotics, according to Public Information Officer Gary Flot.

Police arrested Tony Declues and booked him with first-degree murder after he confessed to killing his mother.

73-year-old Louis

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection is issuing a warning about a scam where people are asked for account information via a text message that appears to be from a bank.

Local Associated Banks said they have been receiving dozens of calls after people go

A married South Shore teacher was living a disturbed double life for nearly two years, police said, allegedly seducing a 13-year-old boy, plying him with booze and having sex with him on kitchen floors and couches, sometimes right under the nose of her husband.

Christine A. McCallum, 29,

Bill Cosby, the entertainer-turned-activist known for his controversial comments on race, told Washington’s WTOP radio station Saturday that Barack and Michelle Obama were examples of the parenting and family values he’s challenged black America to strengthen.

“Who is Ba

I guest a new husband that treats her right wasn’t the icing on the cake for R&B singer Jill Scott’s happiness. Singersroom have learned that the soul crooner is pregnant wi

A woman accused of hosting a party at her Detroit home where men could pay for lap dances and sex is headed to trial.

A district judge on Friday ordered the 34-year-old bound over for trial on child sexually abusive activity and other lesser charges.

Two 28-year-old Detroit men al

A high school girls basketball coach has been charged with dealing cocaine following an investigation of what police called a major drug operation.

Mark Wendell, 36, was charged with one count of selling cocaine. Until Wednesday, Wendell was the varsity girls basketball coach at St. Thoma

An Indiana prosecutor says a former church official is charged with stealing more than $276,000 from church accounts and using some of the money to pay for a vasectomy.

Grant County Prosecutor Jim Luttrull says William Jeremiah Six faces eight counts of theft and one count of fraud.

U.S. authorities have arrested an immigration officer on an indictment accusing him of having sex with an 11-year-old boy in Brazil and bringing pictures of the boy into the United States.

The U.S. Attorney's office announced Friday that 44-year-old Michael Clifford of Hull was indicted o

It appears that R Kelly’s wife has now officially divorced him. And her pockets just got a whole lot better beceuse of it. Here’s the official release from the ex Mrs. Kelly’s

Man…get a load of Taraji P. Henson at the Critic’s Choice awards in LA. Was it absolutely necessary for her to look that good?  SMH Anyway, our answer is an astounding “yes, inde

Doctors are working to see if a 17-year-old girl could have permanent injuries after she was shot in the mouth.

The shooting happened about 10:45 p.m. Thursday night in the 1700 block of Banker Street at the Desoto Bass Housing complex.

Dayton police say it looks like the gunfire

A DVD player returned to a local Wal-Mart apparently exposed a 4-year-old to pornography, the girl's parents said.

Tiffany McGurk said she and her husband bought the player this

A ring of slippery thieves struck Seattle-area car dealers over the course of several months, driving off with more than a million dollars worth of vehicles, as a surveillance video shows.

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Start with the grass stains. He left the field wearing the most splendid of grass stains, long swaths of green stretching over his shoulders, across his chest, down his back, the badge of a lineb

The Dallas Cowboys today announced that Adam "Pacman" Jones will be released after one season with the team.

The announcement comes a few days before E

Hollywood couple LISA BONET and JASON MOMOA are celebrating after welcoming a new baby.
Former The Cosby Show star Bonet gave birth to son Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha on 15 December (08) - her

Two Woonsocket High School boys did the right thing by trying to get to school on time.

It was the way they got there that police had a problem with.

Police told The Call of Woonsocket the boys ages 15 and 16 stole a car Tuesday morning in order to make it to school on time.

MiMi & Nick were spotted on their way out of Japonais. See Photos

In a recent interview Paris Hilton claimed, “I've only done it with a couple of people” and yes, ‘it’ is what you think ‘it’ is.

She then explains, “

Gas prices around the Miami Valley jumped back to $2 a gallon is some places on Tuesday.

The rise in prices occurred as OPEC cut oil production, and the prices of oil hit $50 a barrel. The on-going conflict in the Middle East is also another factor in the rise of gas prices.

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A former Cape Cod man who continued to collect his mother's government pension checks after she died has been sentenced to five months in prison.

John O'Donnell Jr. formerly of Harwich, was also sentenced in federal court on Tuesday to five months of home confinement, two years of probati

Boston College's Jeff Jagodzinski met with New York Jets officials Tuesday to discuss their head coaching vacancy -- an interview that was expected to cost him his job with the Eagles.

Jagodzinski, who became BC's coach in 2007, was told by athletic director Gene DeFilippo that he would b

Dan White is used to getting strange looks when he parks the family car: A hearse. But the Springvale man says the wagon isn't a bad ride, when it's not your last.

White and his wife Gina bought the 1990 Chevrolet Caprice hearse two years ago on eBay. During its 16 years in service at a f

President-elect Barack Obama's proposed stimulus package would provide businesses with billions of dollars in refunds on taxes they paid several years ago.

The refunds are popular among business groups and could increase pressure on Republicans to support Obama's massive stimulus package,

The handsome, William Smith, and the scrumptious filet mignon, Rosario Dawson were in Pa-ree posing away at the Photocall of Seven Pounds. It just wouldn’t be Paris without some good wine. What

Four men are facing federal charges in a $1 billion Miami life insurance fraud first exposed in 2004.

A 25-count grand jury indictment Monday charges the four played roles in a scam that affected more than 28,000 Mutual Benefits Corp. investors. The company sold investments based on

Police say a 4-year-old boy in southern Ohio shot his babysitter because the sitter accidentally stepped on his foot. Police said 18-year-old Nathan Beavers and several other teenagers were babysitting several young children in a mobile home in Jackson on Sunday when the shooting occurred.<

Dr. Richard Sharpe, the cross-dressing doctor convicted of murdering his estranged wife Karen in November 2001 was founded hanged in his prison cell at the MCI Norfolk Monday evening, state corrections officials said.

Sharpe, 54, a wealthy Gloucester, Mass., dermatologist, was found guilt

Port Angeles police and State Patrol crime lab workers plan to sift through 60 tons of trash, looking for the body of a baby they say was thrown away.

Police said a 16-year-old girl who was living in a Port Angeles house with her father and several other adults gave birth to the baby boy

Some children in her downtown Omaha child care center have a tough time pronouncing her name.

Most 3 year olds in her care call Verna Kephart “Grammy” or “Grammy Burna.”

But in Omaha’s child advocacy community, Kephart is named as one of the differenc

Police in Middletown arrested a woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend.

Officers said 28-year-old Heather Belcher attacked her boyfriend. Brian Baker, 25, was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening stab wounds.

Belchers is being held in the Middletown Jail on charges

If you cast your minds back to about a week before Christmas you might remember a little story doing the rounds that Shar

The Broward Sheriff's Office is warning seniors about scam artists who are hunting for victims.

The most popular scam these days is called the "Lotto scam" or "pigeon drop." It involves a fake lottery ticket and the victim's entire bank account.

A 72-year-old w

A Bridgewater man is facing charges for allegedly dragging a state trooper during a routine traffic stop.

Authorities said Richard Swanson, 21, is scheduled to be arraigned in Taunton District Court on Monday.

Police said an SUV driven by Swanson was pulled over at about 6 p.m. on

Denzel Washington challenged his son to a swimming race while on vacay and came up just short:

DENZEL Washington is pr

[Sources] said Chris, 19, popped the question over the New Year. Rihanna, 20, showed off the bling after performing

It seems that Khloe Kardashian and Rashard McCants are putting their vanilla and chocolate swirl dish on display just like Reggie and Kim:

As I’m sure most of y

Chris Rock and his Nana attended the Knick’s game at Madison Square Garden in NY yesterday. Chris Rock ain’t right for tricking Nana by saying they were gonna make a quick stop up the street before t

Forty-one-year-old Noygel Massop, a former South Florida high school teacher, has been charged with having sex with one of his students.

Massop is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student while he was teaching at J.P. Taravella High School.

Massop was arr

Employees of a pizza delivery shop say the owners has cut off the heat in the store. And they say if the workers don’t like it, they can leave.

Dan Baxter, who works at the Pizza Time in Lacey, says he expects to be fired for talking to KING 5 News about this.

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Police are calling a fast-food worker a hero for saving a little girl from a possible abduction.

Serenity LaChapelle was working at a McDonalds on Plum Street in Olympia when she protected a girl from being abducted by a stranger.

LaChapelle approached Richard Knauss when she saw

This city, branded the nation's most violent, saw 31 fewer murders in 2008 than the previous year -- a sign, to the police chief, of progress and reform.

But some are not reassured.

"It does not feel safer," said activist and bookshop owner Baty Landis, who helped orga

The New Orleans Police have received a report of a two-year-old child who was taken from his father at gunpoint while the two were on the street late Friday night near the corner of Jackson Avenue and Carondelet Streets.

The two-year-old African-American male child, Ja Shawn Powell, has

Dr. Dre’s son, Andre Young Jr., died from an overdose of heroin and morphine, the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner

The incident began when a security alarm went off at the Food Stop at 2101 Natomas Crossing about 4:30 New Year's Day morning, according

Police in the Bahamas said John Travolta's teenage son died after injuring himself at the actor's vacation home.

Police spokeswom

For the third time

Charges filed this week in 3rd District Court say the woman drove recklessly on Nov. 28 through a Costco parking lot in West Valley City. Authorities sa

A metro Detroit mother gave birth to twin boys on different days and in different months of different years.

Tangernika Woods

Michael Jackson steps out and he's dressed like Zorro. See Photos Below

Ricardo Perrault said he was separating some fireworks to light just minutes before midnight on New Year&rsqu

The message has been plastered on highway message boards fo

Police say the man walked into the store in 65 N. 900 West just after 2 p.m., went to the clerk and asked her about two specific iPod models.

She brought the items to the front counter, but when she started to ring them up, th

Two dogs were shot dead this afternoon. The shooter claimed they posed a threat to himself and another family.

The pregnant mother and her two young boys said they were about to get bit by those two dogs. Now, the owner of the dogs is facing charges for letting them run free through a Ma

A 16-year-old boy shot a homeless man with a paintball gun in front of a pair of undercover cops, Riverside police said today.

The incident occurred around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday near the intersection of University and Comer avenues, where two undercover Riverside vice officers were working

The pastor at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church here was killed Wednesday morn

The federal product-safety agency says it's launching an investigation following the death of a 2-year-old boy in a portable crib last weekend on Vinalhaven.

Noah Thompson was strangled Saturday by a mesh covering that was placed over his portable crib. His parents, Marc Thompson and Lisa

 Investigators said a couple’s week-long crime spree came to an end after a two-county chase.

Deputies in Clark County said the couple broke into a South Charleston Marathon station on Monday night after stealing a woman’s car and identification in Columbus.

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A Pueblo police officer remains on leave following the apparent accidental shooting of his wife.

Steven Vaughn told investigators he had just finished cleaning his revolver Sunday when it accidentally fired. The bullet passed through a wall and into a bathroom, hitting his wife, Robin, i

Looks like retired basketball star and Olympic gold-medal winner Charles Barkley started celebrati

The robbery happened Tuesday evening at an Admiral Discount Tobacco shop.

The Grand Rapids Press reported that three men got away with an undisclosed amount of cash and merchandise.

One carried a fork and another had a kitchen or steak knife. 

A police dog trac

Police pulled over a grandmother Tuesday in Lincoln and found methamphetamine in her purse, said Lincoln police.

Officers found straws

The Turlock Golf and Country Club is mourning the loss of one of its most loyal employees this month, a border collie named Quinn.

The Merced County Sheriff's Department said Quinn was shot and killed Dec. 16 when a former golf course employee, Franco Garcia Aguilar, 21, walked onto the g

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials seized 373 pounds of cocaine that were found hidden in furniture in a container at the Port of Miami on Monday.

CBP officials said officers were inspecting containers at the port when police dogs helped them find drugs hidden in some furniture

Two Bellevue women are being held on $50,000 bail for allegedly tricking an elderly man into marriage to steal his money.

On Tuesday 56-year-old Sujinda Yahatta and 29-year-old Kulany Roeksbutr pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping and attempted theft.

Prosecutors say the

Massachusetts authorities have arrested a man they say embezzled millions of dollars over a period of more than a year from a "national entertainer" with local ties who was also his client.

The attorney general's office declined to name the entertainer, but said that between Jul

A Vermont man who threw out a lottery ticket he'd been given for Christmas pulled it out of the trash and cashed it, winning $650,000.

Steven LeClair, of Richford, got the ticket for the Dec. 24 Tri-State Megabucks drawing as a gift from his mother. But it was in a gift bag that LeClair t

"They cut it open with a box cutter or knife," he said. "I'm definitely angry, but my initial reaction is they're car seats, you know."

Milford police have charged a city man with providing alcohol to minors in connection with a fight over a beer keg that cost a teenager an eye.

Officers arrested 21-year-old John Thiel on Sunday. They said he bought the keg that sparked the brawl at Walnut Beach.

Witnesses said th

Ogden police have arrested several people over a YouTube video of a high school girl getting beaten up. Two women were arrested and three teenagers were cited for what police call a vicious assault.

Officials with the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office said it's not clear how the naked man got into the house, but once he was inside he confronted the 88-year-old resident and forced her to sit in a chair.

The woman complied but as the man approached her with unknown intents she grabbed

The leader of Maine's Roman Catholics has taken the unusual step of threatening to punish an outspoken advocate for people who were sexually abused by priests.

Paul Kendrick of Freeport has been banned from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and warned in a letter that if he tries

Monroe, La. - A young man who was at the center of the Jena Six controversy is in the hospital after shooting himself in the chest, according to po

Five people were injured in a shooting early Saturday outside a nightclub in an area south of downtown Denver that has a violent past, police said.

One pers

A teenager has been sentenced to four days in jail for smearing peanut butter on the forehead of another youth he knew was allergic to peanuts.

Nineteen-year-old Joshua Hickson, of Malaga, was convicted last week of simple assault in Chelan County District Court.

Judge Nancy Harmo

A Hartford woman is facing assault charges after police said she stabbed her boyfriend in the back with a pair of scissors.

Police said Latoya Smith, 29, is charged with second-degree assault after the Sunday incident.

Police didn't identify the victim, but said he was treated fo

FBI agents have talked to the husband of a woman who reportedly fell from a cruise ship balcony in the waters off Cancun.

FBI spokesman Mike Leverock said agents met the ship at the dock Sunday, collected materials and "are still trying to determine if a crime occurred."

Police said a Laconia man sneaked into a former girlfriend's house through an unlocked window, grabbed her by the throat and smashed her cell phone.

Police said Matthew Stark, 20, entered the apartment on Friday, got into bed with the former girlfriend and when she awoke, the two got into

Christmas may not have been too jolly for a Swampscott, Mass., man this year after police there arrested him and charged him with playing Christmas music too loudly.

Police arrested Arnulf Simmon, 67, of 50 Puritan Road #2, on Dec. 21 after neighbors complained about the loud carols and a

The final two minutes of the Detroit Lions’ history-making season had a soundtrack that in no way resembled the stentorian

A 28-year-old man faces charges he broke into three churches early Sunday morning.

About 2:30 a.m. Sunday, Burlington police officers responded to a burglar alarm at Davis Street United Methodist Church at 606 E. Davis St.

They discovered someone had broken into the church by smas

The Mount Zion Church of God in Christ off of 31st and Q streets were broken into sometime between last Sunday and Tuesday.

The burglars took three of the church's keyboards. Together they are worth $4,000.

The church's pastor said music plays a pivotal role in their services and

The Massachusetts attorney general's office says professional fundraisers working for charities in the state are keeping almost two-th

Black teenagers are killing each other in rising numbers as part of a troubling trend that has been masked by a falling crime rate in the United States, according to a new study released Monday by Northeastern University.

FBI crime statistics show overall decreases in violent crime and mu

Police in Michigan said a teenager has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a suburban Detroit police officer who had stopped him for driving without a license.

The Detroit teenager surrendered to police a few hours after the officer was shot in Oak Park, police said.