A male suspect is dead after police shot him while checking a drug complaint at a southwest Dallas apartment complex. The shooting happened about 4 p.m. Tuesday afternoon at the Mountain Valley Apartments between Loop 12 and Mountain Creek Lake dam. Dallas police Sr. Cpl. Melinda Gutierrez says two undercover ...
Robert Van Handel was a 15-year-old seminarian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The priest told him it would help draw the fever out. More than a ...
Police say a Hesperia 13-year-old and two of her friends are under arrest for the attempted murder of the girl's mother. Police spokeswoman Susan Rose says police were called by the victim after her daughter and two 14-year-old friends attacked her Tuesday morning. The Victorville Daily Press (http://bit.ly/JAHfI5 ) reports ...
Police arrested notorious "mountain man" Dan Nichols Tuesday on drug charges following a months-long search that came nearly three decades after he and his father kidnapped a world-class athlete. Nichols was taken into custody after phoning the U.S. Marshals Service and saying he would be in the Walmart parking lot ...
Two men charged with the murders of two graduate students from China made a brief court appearance with a crowd of their supporters shouting messages of love from the audience. The arraignments of Bryan Barnes, 20, and Javier Bolden, 19, were continued for a month to allow their lawyers time ...
A drifter accused of terrorizing a struggling city by faking car trouble then stabbing strangers who came to his aid was quickly convicted of murder Tuesday after jurors rejected an insanity defense. It was the first trial for Elias Abuelazam, who is accused of a series of sometimes fatal stabbings ...
Hundreds of guests at a beachside Hawaii resort have been evacuated from the hotel after police shot and killed a man in the parking lot who was suspected of stealing a vehicle. Several hundred guests haven't been able to return to their rooms while police are on the scene, Winston ...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn's infamous encounter with a hotel housekeeper reflected a pattern of misogynistic behavior by the former International Monetary Fund leader, she said in court papers adding a new claim Tuesday to her sexual-assault lawsuit against him. Tapping a New York City law against gender-based violence and pointing to other ...
Police have arrested a 19-year-old man in connection with a shooting that wounded eight people shortly after the Thunder-Lakers NBA playoff game in Oklahoma City. Police say Rodney Hill was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon, but no other details have been released. Capt. Dexter Nelson says the shooting didn't appear ...
A Washington state man fed up with a group of noisy moviegoers behind him stepped over the seat and punched a 10-year-old boy in the face. The man, who told police he thought the person he hit was a grown man, was watching "Titanic" in 3-D with his girlfriend and ...