(GREENSBORO, N.C.) — The judge in the John Edwards trial says she is dealing with a juror issue and she is warning the panel not to deliberate outside the jury room or in small groups. U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Eagles closed the courtroom to reporters Friday afternoon for about 35 minutes to talk to [...]
(NEW YORK) — A man has implicated himself in the death of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose disappearance 33 years ago on his way to school helped launch a missing children’s movement that put kids’ faces on milk cartons, police said Thursday. Investigators were still going over details of the man’s story. The development came just [...]
(ORLANDO, Fla.) — A Florida A&M drum major who died after being hazed on a bus asked to go through the ordeal because it was seen as an honor, a defendant in the case said in a deposition released Wednesday Robert Champion, 26, had asked all season to go through the hazing ritual, known as [...]
(FLINT, Mich.) — A man suspected of fatally stabbing five men and wounding nine others in and around a Michigan city two summers ago was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder in the first case to go to trial. Jurors rejected the insanity defense put forth for Elias Abuelazam, finding him guilty of stabbing 49-year-old Arnold Minor [...]
Utah wildlife officials say a moose went on a jaunt through neighborhoods north of Logan and triggered a police chase.
(GREENSBORO, N.C.) — John Edwards’ defense team rested Wednesday without calling the two-time Democratic presidential candidate or his one-time mistress to the witness stand, a sign of confidence after presenting little more than two days of testimony and evidence. The defense had called a series of witnesses aimed at shifting the jury’s focus from the [...]
The funeral of a 28 year-old waiter in southern Egypt turned into a celebration when he woke up after being declared dead.
As she prepares to visit the Smithsonian Institution and National Zoo next week, White told The Associated Press she “very, very much favors” President Barack Obama in the election.
(LOS ANGELES) — A former Los Angeles police detective was sentenced Friday to 27 years to life in prison for murdering the wife of her former lover 26 years ago. Stephanie Lazarus, 52, was found guilty in March of killing Sherri Rasmussen, a nurse who was bludgeoned and shot to death in the condo she [...]
A federal judge refused to throw out campaign corruption charges against John Edwards on Friday, meaning the former presidential hopeful will have to present his case to a jury.
(CHICAGO) — The defense for the man accused of killing relatives of Jennifer Hudson told jurors Wednesday that prosecutors failed to prove their case, while a prosecutor countered that they had “overwhelming circumstantial evidence” linking him to the crime. Prosecutor Jennifer Bagby insisted during her closing argument that Hudson’s former brother-in-law, William Balfour, is the [...]
Americans might get squeamish at the thought of their favorite snacks being tweaked. But what works in the U.S. doesn’t always work everywhere.
An Army nurse showed no alarm or discomfort before suddenly collapsing during a Skype video chat with his wife, who saw a bullet hole in a closet behind him, his family said Sunday.
(WASHINGTON) — Federal officials say the National Christmas Tree planted near the White House a year ago has died and is being removed. The National Park Service says the Colorado blue spruce died of “transplant shock.” It came from a tree farm in New Jersey last year and was planted on the Ellipse just south [...]
Crab fisherman Mark Anello noticed something odd near his boat off the Northern California coast: three buoys floating nearby were moving.
(ORLANDO, Fla.) — Prosecutors have prepared at least five separate cases against the suspects in the hazing death of Florida A&M University band member, 26-year-old Robert Champion. Detectives said Champion was hazed by other band members following a performance against a rival school aboard a chartered bus parked outside an Orlando hotel last November. The charges range [...]
(NEW YORK) — A hotel maid’s sexual assault lawsuit against Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her in New York City can go forward to trial, a judge ruled Tuesday, rebuffing the former International Monetary Fund leader’s diplomatic-immunity claim. Bronx state Supreme Court Justice Douglas McKeon’s ruling kept alive the civil case that emerged from a May [...]
(RICHMOND, Va.) — Tareq Salahi, a Virginia vintner who achieved notoriety for crashing a White House party and later saw his wife run off with a guitarist for the rock band Journey, now says he will run as a Republican for governor of Virginia. In a move that provoked rolled eyes and guffaws within Richmond’s [...]
