The victims of the worst mass shooting in Alabama history included members of the gunman's family and passers-by apparently targeted at random.
At least 25 investors in Bernard Madoff's failed business are asking to speak at a Thursday hearing at which Madoff is expected to plead guilty.
Bernard Madoff has yet to face the many investors he is accused of ripping off in a jaw-dropping Ponzi scheme that amounted to one of the biggest financial frauds in history.
The British government announced Wednesday it has rejected an expert panel's call to pay 12,000 pounds ($17,000) each to the families of more than 3,500 people slain in the Northern Ireland conflict — an idea that reopened wounds across the province.
Names of people killed in crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407. The names have been provided by the airline, employers, relatives or friends.
A 2000 federal law promised visas to illegal immigrants who were crime victims if they came out of the shadows to help police catch their attackers. More than 13,000 people took the government's offer but so far only 65 — just 0.5 percent — have gotten their reward.
A computer glitch that sent phone calls and e-mails falsely telling Indiana crime victims that offenders were being released from prison has been fixed.
A federal judge on Thursday rejected a bid to hold the federal government liable for the deaths of three elderly people during Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.
Tiny bodies lying side by side wrapped in white burial shrouds. The cherubic face of a dead preschooler sticking up from the rubble of her home. A man cradling a wounded boy in a chaotic emergency room after Israel shelled a U.N. school.
The Los Angeles County coroner's office has identified six of the nine people killed when a man dressed as Santa Claus attacked his ex-wife's family on Christmas Eve.
A Virginia man and his teenage daughter were remembered Sunday as loving, peaceful spirits whose lives at an isolated spiritual community were in contrast to their violent deaths at the hands of terrorists while on pilgrimage to India.
In an isolated spiritual community in Virginia, 13-year-old Naomi Scherr was an especially adventurous kid, dyeing her hair purple, then shades of blue and teal. She adored the music of rockers Linkin Park and My Chemical Romance and usually had headphones on.
At least 172 people, including 19 foreigners, were killed after gunmen attacked 10 sites across India's financial capital starting Wednesday night.
At least 195 people, including 18 foreigners, were killed after gunmen attacked 10 sites across India's financial capital starting Wednesday night.
More than 150 people were reportedly killed after gunmen attacked 10 sites across India's financial capital starting Wednesday night.
France's foreign minister on Friday identified the two French people killed in the Mumbai terror attack as the founder of a French fashion company and her husband.
Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife worked tirelessly after they landed in India to run a Jewish outreach center, serving homemade kosher meals to their many guests and strengthening their connection with God.
Hundreds of thousands of victims of a brutal 20-year insurgency in northern Uganda remain destitute and traumatized because the government has not created a comprehensive reparations program, rights group Amnesty International said Monday.
Melvin Jones says he screamed and begged for mercy as Chicago police touched metal clips to his feet and thighs, churned a hand-cranked device and sent shock waves of electricity through his body more than 25 years ago.
Albert "Jay" Cox couldn't believe his eyes when he saw a freight train hurtling toward the commuter train he was riding.
A truck driver was released from prison Friday after serving two years for the traffic deaths of four Taylor University students and a university staff member.
New research released Thursday before the anniversary of the Berlin Wall's construction start date said 136 people lost their lives at the Cold War barrier that once divided the city — a small increase over previous estimates.
Survivors of the anthrax attacks and relatives of the victims expressed relief Friday that the long-running case appears finally to be closed, but they wondered about questions that may never be answered because of the suicide of suspect Bruce Edward Ivins.
Susan Holden built her legal career trying to get everything she could for people hurt in car accidents or by defective products.
A Maryland state lawmaker wants to make it easier for victims of domestic abuse to carry handguns.
TAMPA — On the morning deputies led a shirtless Kenneth Robinson down his driveway and off to jail, he gave neighbors a tiny smile. It's a mistake, he said.
Among Bernard Madoff's many dupes were his closest friends, including two tycoons he loved as surrogate fathers: the late Norman F. Levy -- whose girlfriend, supermodel Carmen Dell'Orefice, would lose her life savings -- and the prominent philanthropist Carl J. Shapiro.
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I wanted to believe the man in front of me wasn't a rapist. I knew he was a former Sudanese soldier, I knew he wanted to talk about rape in Darfur. A humanitarian group working on Darfur issues had introduced him to us. They told us his testimony was important to hear.
INVERNESS — One of Florida's most notorious rapists will spend the rest of his life in prison after a Citrus County judge gave the 60-year-old man a 210-year sentence.
GARDEN GROVE – Garden Grove police investigating a domestic violence call early this morning found one man lying face down without a pulse on the floor of a bedroom and another man covered in blood.
PINE HILLS -- Authorities in Orange County are searching today for a barefoot woman wearing a leopard-print long-sleeve shirt who is accused of stabbing a man at a Laundromat.
Why is Israel not on the terror list, when its occupation of Palestine caused more death to the Palestinians then the actions of all the Palestinian terrorists combined ???????????????
At the end of the summer of 1992, I had just returned home from spending the summer with my dad. I was 19 years old. I am my mother's baby our of five children (and my dad's oldest...I have a little sister).
Excerpt: Unrequited love is generally portrayed in movies and songs as a harmless obsession. Here in the real world, it can be a bit scarier.
After a very moving National Memoraial Service held yesterday for the victims of Black Saturday, Victorians again are urged to leave their homes with the ever growing threat of being consumed by out of control bush fires.
Excerpt: DUNGEON dad Josef Fritzl's trial could be held in private after court officials were advised they could ban ALL public and press from the hearing.
Excerpt: Incest victim Elisabeth Fritzl has spoken out after pictures of her and daughter Kerstin were published last week.
t's been recently reported that Shon Pernice put up a profile with the online dating service "Plentyoffish" listing himself as "divorced" and looking for a "life partner." He mentions his children, born to his missing wife, Renee Pernice.
Excerpt: Denis Schwarz, a 25-year-old German steel foundry worker, has been sentenced to nine months in jail for shooting an air pistol up his friend's anus, causing his intestines to rupture.
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.
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- It sounds like the script from a horror movie. A professional masseuse was arrested for murdering a client and then chopping his body into little pieces. But, she told detectives she can't remember a thing.
Rabid far-right commentator Ann Coulter is known across America for sliming everyone and everything she disagrees with. Al Gore is a "total fag" and another one-time presidential candidate, John Edwards, is the same.
Hundreds march in Vancouver in memory of missing women Aboriginal leaders call for public inquiry. Hundreds of people marched through Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside on Saturday to remember the dozens of women who were slain or have gone missing in B.C.
Police and park rangers are urging people to be cautious on lake ice after a man and a 10-year-old girl die when their pickup truck breaks through and falls into the icy water below.
Excerpt: The Orlando Police Department and the Georgia Bureau of investigation are trying to find a man who online claims to be a serial killer and that Jennifer Kesse may be one of his victims. Kesse was has been missing for three years.
Names on the list of Madoff's Minnesota victims that appear to be names of companies include the following: Accredited Investors, The Apple Corps, Berman Consulting, Allied Parking, Cammins & Selle Furniture, DCI Trading, Dorado Investment, Fairway Partnership, Felsen Moscoe Co.
SAUK CITY -- A criminal in Texas went on quite the shropping spree using Lori Warren's money. Warren discovered more than $2,000 in checks had been spent at Wal-Marts in Texas and Louisana.
Excerpt: Most of the 250,000 Americans who die every year after their hearts suddenly stop pumping blood never had a chance.