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The state of Missouri wants a man twice convicted in the 1990 slaying of a Chillicothe farm wife to remain behind bars for life despite a recent ruling that sharply criticized his conviction, the... more

Snigdha Nandipati heard a few words she didn't know during the National Spelling Bee, but never when she stepped to the microphone.Calm and collected throughout, the 14-year-old from San Diego... more

A Canadian porn actor suspected of mailing body parts to the headquarters of two major political parties after making a video of the killing might have fled to France, police said Thursday.A... more

John Edwards' campaign finance fraud case ended in a mistrial Thursday when jurors acquitted him on one of six charges but were unable to decide whether he misused money from two wealthy donors to... more

A Connecticut tribe is moving to give its own police department a larger role inside its Foxwoods Resort Casino, but several former department employees say it can barely manage to patrol the tiny... more

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee and a former priest who received money to leave the ministry following allegations of sexual abuse say that payment and others were a form of charity meant to help men... more

Someone inside an artsy Seattle cafe where a gunman opened fire threw stools at the assailant during a shooting rampage police described as "callous, horrific and cold," a move that allowed others... more

A battle over a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman appears headed for the Supreme Court after an appeals court ruled Thursday that denying benefits to married... more

A 21-year-old college student accused of killing a housemate told police he ate the victim's heart and part of his brain after he died.Alexander Kinyua hid the head and hands of the dead man in... more

All eight students injured when they were struck by a pickup truck that ran a red light outside a Southern California high school should survive, the California Highway Patrol said Thursday.The... more

A federal judge granted class certification to authors challenging Google Inc. over its plans for the world's largest digital library Thursday, finding it more sensible to have a single legal... more

A jury took less than two hours Thursday to acquit an Oregon woman on trial for the second time on allegations that she killed her newborn son, in a case in which no remains were found and defense... more

Several thousand Oregon Coast residents on alert after last year's devastating earthquake in Japan took part in their first tsunami evacuation drill Thursday, stopping what they were doing and... more

A judge considering the merits of dozens of lawsuits against the city for 1,800 arrests during the 2004 Republican National Convention was critical of some of the actions of police as he listened... more

John Edwards' campaign finance fraud case ended in a mistrial Thursday when jurors acquitted him on one of six charges but were unable to decide whether he misused money from two wealthy donors to... more

A Canadian company seeking to build a pipeline to transport crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries has submitted a new application for the southern segment of the project that avoids... more

Quebec's premier Jean Charest said Thursday he suspended negotiations with university students aimed at ending weeks of protests over proposed tuition hikes, a development that could lead to a... more

Federal lawmakers proposed a bill Thursday that would give social workers better access to school records in an effort to improve education for foster children.A federal law requires social... more

A bear attacked and injured a 74-year-old Arizona woman camping east of Payson in northern Arizona on Thursday, and now hounds and men are tracking the animal to put it down.The Apache Junction... more

A knowledgeable law enforcement official said Thursday it is unlikely that the Justice Department will retry John Edwards.The official made the comment after the campaign finance fraud case ended... more

Authorities say in court documents that a Maryland man has admitted to eating another man's heart and part of his brain.The Harford County Sheriff's Office says 21-year-old college student... more

A Roman Catholic church official should have called police or quit his job if he was truly troubled by the child sexual-abuse complaints pouring into his office in Philadelphia, a prosecutor... more

An Indiana high school homecoming queen stuck in her native Mexico on an immigration technicality received a U.S. visa Thursday and was expected to make it home in time for her graduation, her... more

In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village.She will always be naked after blobs of... more

Manhattan's top prosecutor said Thursday that it's too soon to discuss how sure he is that a former stock clerk is indeed the killer of a boy who vanished in 1979, a case that flummoxed... more