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KANSAS CITY -- A Missouri man was arraigned Thursday on charges that he recklessly infected a sexual partner with the virus that causes AIDS, and a prosecutor said he potentially could have infected 300 more people in two states.

A second suspect — this time, the alleged gunman — was arrested Thursday in the shooting death of 1-year-old Londyn Samuels, one of two New Orleans children whose killings in the last week have led to soul-searching over the city's violence.SWAT officers and U.S.

Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that if the U.S. fails to strike Syria for using chemical weapons, extremist rebels could hijack the opposition and turn the civil war into a brutal free-for-all.

A 19-year-old man playing with a remote control helicopter in Brooklyn, N.Y., lost control of it, sliced off the top of his own head and died Thursday afternoon, a law enforcement official said. The helicopter enthusiast, identified by the official as Roman Pirozek Jr.

Shellie Zimmerman filed divorce papers Thursday against George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, her attorney told NBC News.

At midnight on Friday, September 6, Janet Napolitano can stop worrying about early morning phone calls and the latest terror threats.After four and a half years as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security — longer than either of her two predecessors — she steps down.

The former director of a "no-kill" animal shelter in Georgia was free on bond Thursday after a grand jury indicted her for allegedly charging owners not to euthanize their pets and then killing them anyway.

San Antonio's leaders on Thursday approved anti-bias protections for gay and transgender residents, despite the disapproval of top Texas Republicans and religious conservatives who packed a City Council hearing and occasionally shamed supporters for comparing the issue to the civil rights movement.

The family of kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro, who hung himself with a bedsheet in an Ohio prison, is set to claim his body, officials said Thursday.The Franklin County coroner, Dr.