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Two fifth-grade boys are in custody in Washington state after they brought a knife and gun to school with the goal of killing a schoolmate in a foiled murder plot that shocked their rural town because of their youth, prosecutors said on Friday.
A fireball streaking across the Northern California sky brought a flood of witness reports — the same day that a meteor exploded over Russia and an asteroid made a near-Earth fly-by.
Authorities in Alaska have charged a suspect in the mysterious murders last year of two employees at a U.S. Coast Guard communications station in Kodiak, it was reported Friday.
Authorities in Alaska have charged a suspect in the mysterious murders last year of two employees at a U.S. Coast Guard communications station in Kodiak, it was reported Friday.
Christopher Dorner, the former LAPD police officer who carried out a vengeful rampage against his fellow ex-cops and others, committed suicide during an intense firefight with police in rural Big Bear, Calif., dying of a single gunshot wound to the head, authorities said Friday.
APPOMATTOX, Va. -- A man accused of killing eight people at his rural central Virginia home and shooting at a state police helicopter pleaded guilty Friday to several murder and other charges and was sentenced to five life prison terms.
Family members of the six adults killed in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting were at the White House Friday as President Barack Obama bestowed the nation's second-highest civilian honor on their fallen relatives.
A tank holding radioactive liquids is leaking at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, Wash. Gov. Jay Inslee says, raising concerns about other storage facilities there.
Prosecutors on Friday filed criminal fraud and conspiracy charges against former Chicago Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., accusing him and an unnamed co-conspirator of misusing $750,000 in campaign funds.
Prosecutor Kym Worthy has seen her share of grisly crime, but even she was shocked by a discovery in 2009 at a former police storage warehouse. There, stacks of dusty boxes containing thousands of untested rape kits, some decades old.
