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A contract employee who managed the Waubonsie Valley High School cafeteria has been charged with stealing more than $50,000 from the school by skimming cash from lunchroom sales, prosecutors said today.

SYDNEY -- Two young boys playing on a Sydney beach on Sunday found an infant’s body buried in the sand, police said, one week after a newborn baby was discovered...

Wilson was told of "credible threats" to the Ferguson police department and officers

A St. Louis police officers' group called on the NFL to punish five Rams players who stood with their hands raised before trotting onto the field for pregame introductions Sunday. 

James Knowles, the mayor of Ferguson, Missouri, announced Sunday that its police force will hire more African-American officers in the predominantly black town, according to media reports. The initiative comes as part of...

Former leader wins run-off election and will replace the popular Jose Mujica, known as "the world's poorest president."

A body found near the Ohio State University campus today has been identified as that of Kosta Karageorge, OSU athlete who has been missing since Wednesday, police said.

Protesters stopped traffic on a major highway in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, and staged a "die-in" near a children's carousel in a mall. The latest demonstrations against a Missouri grand jury's decision not to indict fo...

A judge in Qatar cleared an American couple charged with starving their adopted child to death Sunday. The couple, Matthew and Grace Huang, were living in Qatar when their 8-year-old daughter Gloria died. They were convi...

HIV's ability to cause AIDS is weakening over time, a new study by University of Oxford researchers shows. After looking at 2,000 women in Africa, the report concludes HIV is less virulent now because it evolves quickly,...

Singing sensation Susan Boyle has US boyfriend she met on tour; hopes he will visit Scotland

Iraqi army weakened from within by absent troops.

Two juveniles are in custody Sunday, suspected in the death of a man beaten with hammers on a St. Louis street.

University athletics: Missing Ohio State football player found dead

A Tampa Bay, Florida, homeless program has become the center of a controversy over unpaid labor at local events. At the New Beginnings of Tampa, one of the city's largest homeless programs, the recovering alcoholics and ...

St. Louis Rams players Tavon Austin, Kenny Brit, Stedman Bailey, Jared Cook, and Chris Givens entered the field at Edward Jones Domes for Sunday's game against the Raiders in the "hands up, don't shoot" pose, which has b...

Protesters across the country walked out of jobs or school today in support of Ferguson, Missouri protests, and to honor Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager killed this s

From overdoing the in-jokes to underplaying the Christmas cheer, here are a paw-ful of facts we learned from the feline superstar's holiday special

The owner of a suburban sewer repair company with ties to Cicero Town President Larry Dominick pleaded guilty Monday to evading more than $400,000 in federal income taxes.

Was publishing his street deliberate?

A senior World Health Organization official for Ebola response said Monday that year-end goals of isolating and treating all patients and safely burying the dead would be major challenges.

"I have always wanted to do what would be in the best interests of the university and its students"