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MUMBAI - Bollywood actress Jiah Khan was found dead at her home in Mumbai in an apparent suicide, police said on Tuesday.Khan, 25, was found hanged in her room on Monday night by her mother, a Mumbai police official said.Khan made her Bollywood debut in 2007 with Ram Gopal Varma's "Nishabd," playing the 18-year-old female lead opposite one of India's leading actors, Amitabh Bachchan, in a film loo...
Moderating winds, cooler temperatures and higher humidity have helped Southern California firefighters gain the upper hand over the 32,000-acre Powerhouse Fire, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman said Tuesday.The fire, which in previous days had torn through dry, thick bush and caused thousands of evacuations, was 60 percent contained Tuesday morning, and all evacuation orders were being lifted, fire...
As the trial of alleged Boston gang boss, FBI informant and former fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger begins with jury selection Tuesday, Steve Davis is looking for three things: answers, justice and eye contact."He will not turn back and look at any of us," Davis complained Monday night after Bulger, wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, sat stony-faced through a lengthy pre-trial hearing."What a coward."...
Violent crime in the U.S. rose last year for the first time since 2006, mainly in big cities, the FBI said Monday.In a preliminary analysis of its annual Uniform Crime Report, the FBI said property crime fell by less than 1 percent across the nation over 2011, but violent crime rose by 1.2 percent, with the biggest jump — 3.7 percent — occurring in large cities (those with populations between 500,...
The now infamous 2010 Internal Revenue Service conference in California — where goofy, expensive video parodies were shown — also featured $135,000 in spending on outside speakers like a "happiness expert" and a session titled "Leadership Through Art," congressional sources briefed on an upcoming inspector general's report told NBC News Monday night.The IRS hired 15 speakers to present at the conf...
Lawyers for Jill Kelley — the Florida woman whose complaint to federal authorities about harassing emails last year led to the resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus — on Monday filed a lawsuit claiming the FBI and Department of Defense officials violated her privacy by failing to keep information about her role in the investigation confidential."One year ago, threatening e-mails shook...
