A gifted musician and teacher whose piano students included his neighbors' kids fatally shot his wife and two daughters then himself in the family's Miami home, police say, leaving those who described him as friendly and helpful to wonder what happened. Complete Story...
A man who told a sheriff's dispatcher he had money problems strangled his wife and 11-year-old son, then shot and killed himself, authorities said Wednesday.
A mother who drowned her three young children in a bathtub at their Long Island home has apparently reached a plea agreement that would send her to a psychiatric facility rather than prison.
A young American diplomat has been found dead at his house in the Ethiopian capital and foul play is suspected, U.S. and Ethiopian officials said Thursday.
Prosecutors dropped a murder charge Tuesday against a man accused of killing his 19-year-old girlfriend after a forensic pathologist reversed himself and said he didn't know how the woman died.
A man who died in prison while serving time for a rape he didn't commit was cleared Friday by a judge who called the state's first posthumous DNA exoneration "the saddest case" he'd ever seen.
The personal doctor to a professional wrestler who killed himself, his wife and their 7-year-old son in 2007 pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally distributing prescription drugs to patients, one of whom died.
A family of four was found shot to death in their suburban Columbus home, victims of an apparent murder-suicide committed by the father, police said Thursday.
A judge in Cincinnati has set bail at $6 million for a man accused of killing his adoptive father and his stepmother and stepsister.
A man who abandoned 280 white rats found dead and dying in crowded carriers was ordered to pay $1,000 restitution and perform 50 hours of community service.
Squatting in the rubble, his briefcase perched atop his knees, the human rights researcher interviewed residents of a house shelled by Israel as he compiled a list of Gazans killed and wounded during Israel's offensive against Hamas.
A U.S. man died Friday while scaling Argentina's Aconcagua mountain, becoming the fifth climber to perish this month on the highest peak in the Americas, officials said.
It’s time to get confused all over again. After a lengthy nine and a half month wait, “Lost” returns for its penultimate season of island intrigue and off-island head-scratchers Wednesday night. Ready to dive back into the murky mystery?
One family buried a slain son over his grandfather. Another bundled up the tiny bodies of three young cousins and lowered them into the grave of a long-dead aunt. A man was laid to rest with his brother.
Police who searched dumps in three states for the remains of a baby thrown out in a Jersey City hospital's trash gave up Thursday, saying they had little chance of success.
U.S. military deaths in Iraq plunged by two-thirds in 2008 from the previous year, a reflection of the improving security following the U.S. military's counterinsurgency campaign and al-Qaida's slow retreat from the battlefield. By comparison, the war in Afghanistan saw American military deaths rise by 35 percent in 2008 as Islamic extremists shift their focus to a new front with the West.
A mother and her two young children were found shot to death Friday, possibly by the mother who may have also staged a series of attacks on the family over the last two weeks, police said.
An autopsy report says a pregnant soldier found dead in a Fayetteville motel room in June likely died of asphyxiation.
A court found a German woman guilty of manslaughter Monday for killing two of her babies and stashing them in the family's freezer — in one case for 20 years.
The militants waited in the shadows for the police van to pass, and when it slowed down in the narrow road, they sprayed it with gunfire.
Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.
Three gold miners were found dead in an underground tunnel in the mountainous northern Philippines on Sunday after they apparently ran out of oxygen, officials said.
A mother and her three young sons, including a toddler in a playpen, on Friday were found shot dead in an apparent murder-suicide in a bucolic Florida community set amid farm fields, officials said. All of the children found in the home were under age 4.
A pool hall where owners cash local workers' paychecks erupted in gunfire Thursday, leaving four people dead in a botched robbery.
Excerpt: Detectives are investigating the mysterious death of a woman whose naked corpse was found underneath two cars in a gritty Brooklyn parking lot yesterday, police said.
A 16-year-old girl was found dead and another girl was found unconscious in an Army barracks at Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Washington, during the weekend, a base spokesman said Monday.
NAPLES — Joan Laurel Small and her boyfriend, Elias Guzman, flip through a remembrance book showing photos of the baby girl they lost a week earlier while Small was an inmate at the Collier County jail.
Excerpt: The frozen remains of two lab mice infected with deadly strains of plague were lost at a bio-terror research facility at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark -- the same high security lab where three infected mice went missing four years ago.
Okay, so I am not going to plead the fifth on this one. I want to know why we don't give a damn about this. Why is it under the fold, second page news?
A South African TV station mistakenly broadcast that former US President George Bush had died during one of its news bulletins. For three seconds ETV News ran a moving banner headline across the screen saying "George Bush is dead".
A South African TV station erroneously broadcast that former US President George Bush had died during one of its news bulletins.
An intoxicated driver has been arrested for putting his dead passenger in the driver seat after driving too fast and killing him in an accident, daily Hamburger Abendblatt reported on Tuesday.
Times are so tough, even the dead are facing budget cuts. The city is closing a $635,000 account to bury welfare recipients, a program created in the 1930s that allowed them to save for funeral costs.
JENSEN BEACH — Martin County Sheriff's detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the remains of a female fetus found in a bag in a Ford Escort at an apartment complex, a sheriff's spokeswoman said Thursday.
Red Dead Redemption is a prequel to the Rockstar title, Red Dead Revolver. Not much has been said at this point but we have some screens and Sam Houser is impressed by it;
Just like Mirror's Edge and Dead Space, Left 4 Dead and Rock Band 2 have sold over 1 million copies. Left 4 Dead sold 1.8 million copies while Rock Band 2 sold 1.9 million said EA at yesterdays press conference.
Mirror's Edge and Dead Space were both new IPs last year, and both from EA. Now both have them have managed to sell 1million copies. While Dead Space was very well received critically, Mirror's Edge wasn't as much. It was a very polarizing game, to say the least.
This somewhat of a shocker but at the same time it makes sense. EA wants to make money. Dead Space was received very well by the gaming press so it's not too difficult to see why EA would want to put a game like this on the Wii.
an acrobatic performer that was entertaining around 750 dinner guests fell to his death during a maneuver.
South Carolina police officer is back on the job Monday after dying, and then coming back to life.
TEMECULA ---- More than 200 dogs and cats were found dead and decomposing in plastic bags on a rural Temecula property Friday in a case one local animal control official is calling the worst she has seen in her 21-year career.
FRANKLIN (Somerset) —Hundreds of dead birds have fallen across the southern part of the township, and at least one resident who found her lawn and car littered with the carcasses Saturday is being told she has to clean up the mess.
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Video Report: In documents released on Jan. 21, Cindy Anthony feared the worst for her then-missing granddaughter, Caylee.
Newly-released documents in the Caylee Anthony murder investigation suggest that the Florida girl's mother once joked about drugging her to sleep.
---Previous article links on the story, in my comment section below.--- LEE COUNTY: The Medical Examiner's Office has released the cause of death of Chrisanto Beltran, who was killed in the Hidden Oaks Assisted Living facility in Fort Myers.
Excerpt: A heartless thug killed his teenage cousin's cat in a drunken rage when he tossed it out a sixth-floor window of his Brooklyn apartment, police said.
FORT MYERS, FL: A fight between two retirement home residents turned deadly Sunday and newly released police reports indicate the fight was over a blanket.
An 8-year-old boy lived for more than a week with the body of his dead mother before anyone discovered his situation, police said.