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Hurricane Maria passed through the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Croix and the small Caribbean island of Vieques on its way toward Puerto Rico Wednesday. There has been limited access to reports from both islands, leaving ma...

BOSQUEVILLE, Texas -- Authorities say a 10-year-old Central Texas girl has died after she horse she was leading kicked her in the head. McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara says the girl's neck was broken in Monday n...

Authorities were unable to find a body when Metra Milwaukee District-West Line trains were stopped Tuesday afternoon after a train was thought to have hit a pedestrian on the West Side, authorities said. The pedestrian w...

EPA will not renew current lease and job postings unclear for local scientists.

(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) — One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit Puerto Rico pummeled the island Wednesday, tearing off roofs and sending doors flying from hinges as officials warned Hurricane Maria would decimate...

Senate Republicans, abandoning a key fiscal doctrine, agreed to move ahead on a budget that would add to the federal deficit in order to pave the way for a $1.5 trillion tax cut.

A British adventurer who had been on a solo kayaking trip through the Amazon was shot dead by pirates, police have confirmed.

Tyler Beck, along with another yet-unidentified Georgia Tech Police officer, responded to a 911 call about a person with a knife and possibly a gun.        

A North Korean defector has told of Kim Jong-un's teen sex slaves, lavish caviar lunches and gory public executions. Hee Yeon Lim, 26, is the daughter of a high-ranking soldier from Pyongyang and a member of the regime's...

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A former substitute high school chemistry teacher from Michigan is accused of having sex with a teen student, and sending him lurid snaps over social media, according to local reports. Allyson Brittany Moran, 26, formerl...

A Michigan woman accused of raping a man at knifepoint may dodge prison after pleading no contest to lesser charges. Lestina Marie Smith was 17 when she allegedly raped a then-19-year-old man inside his car and threatene...

Hurricane Maria left a trail of "widespread destruction" on the small island of Dominica on Tuesday, then took aim at the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico as a potentially catastrophic ­Category 5 storm. With 165-mph w...

Agents took an unusually tough approach in executing a search warrant.

They shouldn't have been so close to the bodyguards' fists.

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In 2004, the rapper was sentenced to six years in state prison for sexual battery.

Blogger Pamela Geller organized a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in 2015

A court in Slovenia has convicted and sentenced two men to prison terms for fatally beating their friend live on Facebook. The court in the eastern town of Krsko on …

Kim Jong Un's officials plucked teenage girls from North Korean schools to serve as the leader's sex slaves, indulged in a gluttonous lifestyle while his people starved and ordered public executions that turned into horr...

Mourners in England are sick to death of a serial funeral crasher who's been barging in on people's worst days for the past 14 years — just for the free food. The greedy griever has attended nearly every funeral at Hol...

A British student has been jailed for falsely accusing a taxi driver of sexual assault after he declined to accept cash that was covered in kebab grease. Sophie Pointon, 22, an aspiring police officer, received a 16-mont...