Tornadoes flattened homes and businesses, flipped trucks over on highways and bent telephone poles into 45-degree angles as they barreled through Alabama and Mississippi on Monday, part of a storm system that killed at least nine people in the South and brought the overall death toll from two days of severe weather in the country to at least 26.
About one in 25 people imprisoned under a death sentence is likely innocent, according to a new statistical study appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. And that means it is all but certain that at least several of the 1,320 defendants executed since 1977 were innocent, the study says.
Emergency officials were searching for survivors Monday in the debris left by a powerful tornado that killed at least 16 people in Arkansas and carved an 80-mile path of destruction through suburban Little Rock.
Military wife Julie Scheneker, accused of shooting her son in the head and daughter in the face during her husband’s deployment in 2011, is standing trial for two counts of first-degree murder.
A wealthy Internet entrepreneur recently convicted of domestic violence has been terminated as CEO of the San Francisco online advertising company RadiumOne. CEO and Chairman Gurbaksh Chahal was upset that his wife had cheated on him during a Las Vegas trip, according to court documents.
In an effort to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine, the U.S. has implemented new sanctions against Russian officials and companies linked to Vladimir Putin’s associates.
He was young, displaced and frustrated, and he wanted nothing more than to reunite with his mother in their native Africa. The 15-year-old Somali boy had been arguing at home, and in the kind of impulsive move that teenagers make, he hopped a fence at San Jose International Airport last Sunday and clambered into a wheel well of a Hawaii-bound jetliner.
A Utah woman was charged Monday with six counts of first-degree murder in the killing of her six babies over a decade, but she cannot face the death penalty if convicted, prosecutors said.
A Florida man who tossed 3 undersized grouper fish overboard is facing criminal charges for violating a federal law originally intended for the accounting industry.
Scientists have created insulin-producing cells for diabetes treatment through stem cell cloning.
U.S. public high schools have reached a milestone, an 80 percent graduation rate. Yet that still means 1 of every 5 students walks away without a diploma, and it’s even worse in Nevada.
A lockdown at North Carolina A&T State University has been lifted after a search failed to find any sign of a reported gunman.
An Amber Alert was issued in California Monday after 3-year-old Tanya Ruiz went missing from the area of Huron, Calif., near Fresno.
The aerial search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was called off Monday, and the underwater hunt will be expanded to include a vast swath of ocean floor that may take at least eight months to thoroughly search, Australian officials said.
