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The lethal injection in the botched Oklahoma execution was given through the inmate’s groin after a specialist could not find a good spot on his arms, legs or feet, the state’s prison chief revealed Thursday.

The head of Oklahoma's prison agency is recommending an indefinite delay in executions while the state's lethal injection protocol is under review following a botched procedure.Gov.

A woman, who was abandoned on church steps as an infant, turns to Facebook to help locate her biological mother. Drew Mikkelsen reports.

Reported sexual assaults in the military rose a staggering 50 percent last year over 2012, the Defense Department said Thursday, a rise it attributed to Pentagon efforts to persuade victims to step forward and not an actual increase in assaults.

For everyone who's ever wanted to watch Brian Williams rap "Rollout" by Ludacris: you’re in luck, because that day has arrived.It all started with Williams' latest appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say federal prosecutors shouldn't be allowed to use his status as a new American citizen to argue that his alleged "betrayal" of the United States is one reason he should be put to death.

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Twisters terrorize, Churchill Downs gets a downpour, a not-very-little piggy goes down a well and more.

Iowa lawmakers voted to ease one of the nation’s toughest laws punishing HIV exposure, one of the first states to revise its decades-old statute.

Fifty-five colleges and universities - big and small, public and private - are being investigated over their handling of sexual abuse complaints under Title IX, the Education Department revealed Thursday.