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Some residents of Newtown, Conn. want the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter's home torn down and the property turned into a park or nature preserve.

A fault line discovered in the 90s is rattling nerves in Southern California, where millions have been living on shaky ground.The 25-mile Puente Hills thrust fault, which slices below Los Angeles neighborhoods, downtown sky scrapers, bridges and freeways, could cause catastrophic damage.

Florida ice cream shop bans saggy pants. Jacob Long reports.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina — A South Carolina mother who gave her infant daughter a lethal dose of morphine via her breast milk was sentenced on Friday to 20 years in prison, a prosecutor said.

A mother is sentenced to 20 years after her baby overdoses on morphine in her breast milk. Sean Muserallo reports.

An American who was kidnapped by crack-smoking Nigerian pirates and held hostage for almost three weeks said Friday that he is still haunted by the ordeal five months later and fears for the security of other captains."It's been hell," Capt. Wren Thomas, an ex-Marine from Sidney, Ill.

Dominique Ansel Bakery was closed Friday for "severe mouse infestation that requires professional pest control services."

Last week, the National Labor Relations Board’s Chicago Regional Director issued a notable finding: football players at Northwestern University are employees of the university for purposes of federal labor law. The legal finding, however, is the result of something even more striking. The overwhelming majority of the talented young men who have been awarded scholarships to play on the Northwestern football team expressed their desire to be represented by a union. And they turned to the College Athletes Players Association to file a petition with the NLRB asking for an election to bargain collectively with the university. 

The gunman who killed three soldiers and injured 16 others in a shooting rampage Wednesday at Fort Hood, Texas, acted alone, Army officials revealed Friday in a press conference.

The New York City Police Department said it is working with the U.S. State Department to secure the freedom of an officer detained in India for having spare bullets in his checked luggage, which a congressman claims is retaliation for the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York.