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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.

Al Qaeda-affiliated militants executed hostage journalist Luke Somers Friday after a captor spotted American commandos who were attempting a rescue mission, a report said. A second hostage, South African teacher Pierre K...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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.

Burlington Police arrested seven men and one woman during a prostitution sweep on Friday evening.

Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation have joined the search for a missing Washington teen who hasn't been seen since Thanksgiving.

Last month, Rolling Stone ran an article about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house, based on interviews with a student identified only as "Jackie." It now appears that key details of the sto...

According to the Daily Beast, Mark Wahlberg's hometown of Dorchester is also known as "Southie." Huh?

When asked on ABC's "This Week" if the grand jury made the right decision not to indict the officer in the death of Eric Garner, Mayor Bill de Blasio wouldn't say.

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Typhoon Hagupit knocked out power, left at least two people dead and sent nearly 900,000 into shelters before it weakened Sunday, sparing the central Philippines the type of massive devastation that a monster storm broug...