Big Red, the rooster whose daily tours of Main Street brought national attention to this mid-Willamette Valley town, died this week after getting mauled by a dog. Complete Story
At least 12 Lebanese villagers, including women and children, were killed Saturday in what appeared to be an Israeli airstrike on a convoy of vehicles fleeing a village near the border with Israel in southern Lebanon, a witness said.
Four homeless men were arrested in the death of an activist who had been beaten in the past while admonishing homeless men camping along the Kansas River to contact their families, police said.
The Israeli army said Wednesday that three of its soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah raid in which two other soldiers were captured. The army withheld news of the deaths for several hours while the soldiers' families were notified.
A series of grenade attacks killed eight people in the main city of Indian Kashmir Tuesday as militants pressed their fight against New Delhi's rule over the divided Himalayan region, police said.
Homebound during an Israeli military offensive, the Hajaj family was passing the time drinking tea and roasting corn in the backyard when a missile hit, killing 46-year-old Amna Hajaj and two of her 15 children.
New Mexico State linebacker Shana Leaupepe, who was set to be a starter this season, was killed in a drive-by shooting.
The journalism watchdog group Reporters Without Borders on Friday called for the leaders of Russia and the United States to request a U.N. investigation into the killing of journalist Paul Klebnikov.
One U.S.-led coalition soldier and five militants were killed in a clash in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said Friday.
A minor league baseball player was killed in a car accident just hours after being released by the Chillicothe Paints of the independent Frontier League.
A man convicted of killing a sheriff's deputy last year avoided the death penalty Wednesday after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict about his sentence.
A roadside bomb blast struck a military convoy Monday in northwestern Pakistan, killing six soldiers and wounding five, officials said.
An explosion hit a bus carrying paramilitary troops in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least five soldiers and wounding six others, police said. The cause of the blast was not immediately known, but a police official said it appeared to be a homemade bomb.
A coalition base came under attack by suspected Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, leaving two British soldiers and an interpreter dead, officials said Sunday.
A jury recommended the death sentence Saturday for a second prison inmate convicted of killing a guard during a botched escape attempt three years ago.
A police officer was fatally wounded in a foot-chase-turned-shootout that also killed the man he was pursuing at a cluster of apartment buildings where many Hurricane Katrina victims were relocated.
At least eight suspected Islamic militants trying to cross into India's portion of disputed Kashmir from the Pakistani side were killed during a gunbattle early Friday, army and police officials said.
Brazil's Supreme Court ordered the release Thursday of a rancher who had been jailed pending trial in connection with the killing last year of American Nun Dorothy Stang.
Gunmen shot and killed a prominent Mexico City police investigator outside his home Wednesday morning, authorities said.
Assailants armed with automatic rifles shot and killed a top policeman and his bodyguard as they drove home in the Mexican resort city of Cancun, authorities said Tuesday.
A man who was left alone with a detective during an interrogation was convicted of murder Tuesday for shooting the officer with his own gun last year inside police headquarters.
Bruno, the brown bear who sauntered into Germany through the Italian Alps and eluded pursuers in a monthlong mountain odyssey, was shot and killed Monday, to the dismay of many animal lovers.
A look at 16 deaths of American troops reported by the U.S. military in the past week in Iraq:
A second prison inmate has been convicted of killing a guard during a botched escape attempt three years ago.
The Islamic militia controlling Somalia's capital said Saturday it was investigating the slaying of an award-winning Swedish journalist, who was fatally shot while covering a demonstration in Mogadishu.