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The Southwest Airlines plane that touched down hard at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Monday, skidding and sparking on the runway, landed nose down with the front landing gear contacting the ground first and collapsing, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
A New York lobsterman who fell off his boat and was missing for nearly 12 hours was rescued by the Coast Guard about 40 miles from the vessel, floating in the ocean using his rubber boots as a raft. Jonathan Aldridge was last seen Tuesday night on the 44-foot lobster vessel Anna Mary.
New surveillance photos released Thursday appear to show former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez in his living room carrying what is believed to be a handgun in the hours before the former NFL star allegedly committed murder, investigators said Thursday.
A woman who was upset she had to serve jury duty was charged $500 after complaining and cursing in a courtroom in Pennsylvania.
A towering former professional wrestler known at one time or another as Donovan Ruddick, D.T. Porter and "The Future" is charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his ex-girlfriend in Tampa, Fla., authorities said Thursday.
Halliburton Energy Services has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Justice Department said.Halliburton has been charged with one count of destroying evidence, according to a filing made today in U.S. District Court in Louisiana.
The State Department handed almost $50 million to a private company to teach Afghans about the rule of law, then inexplicably gave up any oversight of the program, according to an unusually blunt inspector general's complaint.
Ohio prosecutors Thursday were close to reaching a plea deal with Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them captive for a decade. That deal, which he is expected to accept, is life without parole with an additional 1,000 years, NBC News has learned.
A member of the jury that acquitted George Zimmerman said Thursday she thinks Zimmerman "got away with murder" but that jurors had no choice in finding him not guilty under the law.
Before beginning closing arguments Thursday, the judge presiding over the court martial for Pfc. Bradley Manning rejected a defense motion to dismiss charges that Manning stole or converted government information.
