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A Justice woman convicted of scamming $95,000 from an 80-year-old man by claiming to have cancer has been sentenced to five years in prison, according to prosecutors and court records.

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The operator says it allows supervised children age eight and up to handle weapons.

The terrorist group engulfing broad swaths of Iraq and Syria is raking in large amounts of cash through a wide network of lucrative commercial activities. The Islamic State may be raising more than $2 million a day in re...

New line of greeting cards invites affairs

Sometimes sharing is not caring: a jail inmate is now dead after ingesting a piece of liquid methadone-soaked underwear given to him by his cell mate. Kentucky State Police say that 55-year-old Michael Jones left a Jessa...

American writer and journalist Peter Theo Curtis, who was held captive for nearly two years by the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria, returned to the United States Tuesday, two days after his captors released him,...

The President calls the Islamic State militant group that beheaded the journalist a "cancer" and warns: "America does not forget."

One of Colombia's most notorious killers, known as Popeye, who admitted to 300 murders for drug lord Pablo Escobar is freed from prison.

Frida Ghitis says media reports from critics and foes are gleefully portraying Ferguson as the breakdown of a corrupt U.S., leaving out context or depth.

Wesley Clark says the U.S. can offer support to its Islamic friends in the region most threatened by ISIS, but it can't fight their war

Vladimir Putin says he will "help to create an atmosphere of trust", but insists it is up to Kiev to agree a truce with rebels.

(Reuters) - The United Nations' civil aviation body will launch two pilot projects designed to help airlines and states better share information about risks in conflict zones, the organization said on Tuesday, nearly six...

Autopsy reports say that Brown was shot at least six times, but up to 11 shots are heard on the recording

The Ukrainian and Russian presidents hold their first direct talks on the crisis in eastern Ukraine, but there appears to be no breakthrough.

A quarter of guide dogs working in London have been involved in a collision with a bike, a survey finds.

A Coast Guard fired a single shot at an Iranian boat in the Persian Gulf. Somehow, were not at war with Iran.

The health workers were treated with the experimental Ebola drug.

Striker will shake Mourinhos hand as Chelsea play Everton Roberto Martínez excited by arrival of 33-year-old striker Archive: Etoo brands Mourinho a fool for comments Samuel Etoo has said he was annoyed by the inquest i...

Al Bab, a city just north of Aleppo and a short drive from the Turkish border, used to be a home base for opposition rebels fighting with the Free Syrian Army. Now, the town is a hotbed for Sunni militants fighting for t...

An Islamic State militant uses a bullhorn to inform residents of Tabqa, Syria, that the nearby Tabqa air base has fallen, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014. Reuters/Stringer

They call it "Sparky."