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A 24-year-old intern killed by an African lion at a California wildlife sanctuary died suddenly after the big cat broke her neck, a coroner said on Thursday as investigators probed why the worker had been inside the animal's enclosure.
U.S. military officials confirm that a guard at the Guantanamo detention facility fired "non-lethal rounds" at detainees after one sought to climb a fence and others threw rocks at a guard tower.
Even as government officials applauded the arrest of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and an al-Qaida spokesman, his transport to the United States stirred a debate among lawmakers who appeared caught by surprise by the news.
A winter storm parked itself off the coast of New England on Thursday and spun bands of snow and high winds back over the Northeast, the beginning of a two-day onslaught that caused coastal flooding and complicated recovery from last month's blizzard.
The FBI said Thursday that it was monitoring the investigation into the killing of a black and openly gay mayoral candidate in Mississippi whose burned and beaten body was found on the Mississippi River levee outside town last week.
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, captured last month and now in New York, has spent most of the last decade in Iran in some sort of confinement, U.S. officials say.
Jurors in the “cannibal cop” case began deliberations on Thursday to decide whether a New York City police officer actually intended to kidnap and eat women — or if he was simply engaging in an offensive but harmless role playing fantasy online.
Illinois police stand by their decision to handcuff and arrest an 8-year-old girl with autism after she threw a tantrum at school. KSDK’s Talia Kaplan reports. (NBC News)
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The suspect in a car crash that killed a pregnant New York City woman, her husband and ultimately her baby was transported from Pennsylvania, where he was arrested, back to Brooklyn on Thursday, local media reported.
