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A soldier assigned to a prestigious U.S. Army regiment has been charged with having sex with an underage girl and posting the video online, a military official told NBC News.

Former congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., will learn whether and for how long he could go to prison Wednesday — but he’s already shown a preference for some of the nation’s poshest pens.The one-time lawmaker from Illinois pleaded guilty on Feb.

The parents of a man who died after falling from the upper deck of Turner Field in Atlanta on Monday night blamed a lack of safety precautions at the stadium for their son’s death.Ronald Homer Jr., 30, of Conyers, Ga.

Out of therapy and now taking personal time, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner released a statement through one of his attorneys late Monday in reply to a recall effort to remove him from office.

Actor Jason Patric testified before a California legislative committee Tuesday to push for parental rights for sperm donors.

The U.S. Department of Defense is set to announce Wednesday that same-sex spouses of military service members will become eligible for a range of federal benefits as early as September, a senior official told NBC News.

A gunman has taken three hostages at a northeastern Louisiana bank, authorities said Tuesday afternoon.The Tensas Parish Sheriff's Office told NBC News the individuals are being held at the Tensas State Bank in St. Joseph, La., which is near border with Mississippi.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — DNA testing on the two killers profiled in the book "In Cold Blood" does not link them to a quadruple homicide Florida more than 50 years ago, ending perhaps the best chance police and the victims' family had at solving the cold case.Capt.

Two college friends of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges that they attempted to dispose of evidence belonging to their fugitive friend in the days following the attack.

The father of the 12-year-old California boy who allegedly fatally stabbed his 8-year-old sister in April said Monday that he doubts his son could have committed the murder.“I saw [my son’s] demeanor. I saw the two weeks after that,” Barney Fowler told NBC affiliate KCRA in Sacramento, Calif.