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Necrophilia motivated a man to fatally shoot his stepdaughter last month, according to a Pennsylvania prosecutor.

A lab's finding lends credence to a theory that the police abducted the students and turned them over to a drug gang, which killed them.

Several homes have been damaged by Typhoon Hagupit in the Philippines, but no casualties have been reported so far.

The wife of the murdered UK hostage says she still does not know how to tell their daughter why daddy will not be coming home.

Lethal levels of carbon monoxide filled a music rehearsal studio in Passaic on Saturday, the authorities said.

Government accused of using chlorine gas to repel ISIL attack on a strategic air base in Deir Ezzor.

A convicted sex offender who had failed to register was charged with touching a woman's neck and hair while they rode a Metra train earlier this week, officials said Saturday.

In two early stage studies, Bristol-Myers Squibb's nivolumab and Merck's pembrolizumab shrank tumors in patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma.

The defeat Saturday of Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu was essentially the final act in the Republican Party's control this fall of the South -- a transition expected to have a significant impact on the 2016 Whit...

Authorities were conducting a manhunt after a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent was seriously injured when he was hit by a suspect's car in the Ashburn neighborhood this afternoon, police said.

Overnight attacks by suspected Ugandan rebels killed at least 34 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The attacks were carried out in three villages near Beni, a city more than 185 miles north of the provincial ca...

Republicans win Louisiana in the last of the Senate contest, taking their tally to 54 of the 100 seats in the house.

The arrest of prominent blogger Nguyen Quang Lap is the second this month, as crackdown intensifies against dissent.

Some victims' families say it is time to restart executions in California after an eight-year moratorium - but others disagree.

Elbert Richardson, 54, of Brockton, has been charged with two counts of indecent assault on a child under 14 and aggravated rape of a child.

The Met Police say they arrested the men during searches at addresses in London and the East Midlands.

Paul Rosolie says he was eaten alive by a giant green anaconda, the largest and most powerful snake in the world.

A Cuban doctor who recovered from Ebola after receiving experimental treatment in Switzerland is welcomed back to Havana.

Tear gas fired at protesters demanding President Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe step down.

Sexy Russian spy Anna Chapman tried to seduce whistleblower Edward Snowden on orders straight from the Kremlin, according to a defector. Boris Karpichkov, a former KGB agent, claims that a...

After 24 hours, 10,000 false impressions are created from just one machine. If there are 100,000 machines in a bot net, that adds up to 1 billion fraudulent impressions a day.

Boston Police Commissioner William Evans told WBZ's Jon Keller police body cameras could damage the trust built between officers and the community.