Andrew Steele is a suspect in the killings of his wife and her sister, Kacee Tollefsbol, at the Steeles’ home in suburban Fitchburg, Wisconsin on Friday. Steele himself is being treated for an apparent suicide attempt that, police say, they never saw coming.
A judge in Wyoming sentenced a 75-year-old Missouri woman to life in prison on Monday for killing her husband with a rifle in the mid-1970s and throwing his body down the shaft of an abandoned gold mine, where it remained for nearly 40 years.
Hackers attacked Sony’s PlayStation Network and disrupted the travel plans of a top company executive by going on Twitter to suggest that there was a bomb on his American Airlines plane.
A kindergartner abducted from her school was missing for six hours before her family learned she was gone, witnesses testified Monday as a young woman’s kidnapping and sexual assault trial opened.
Crews working in steep terrain were building containment lines around a wildfire that chased people from about 200 homes near the California Gold Rush-era boomtown of Weaverville.
The largest earthquake to hit the San Francisco Bay Area in 25 years sent scores of people to hospitals, ignited fires, damaged multiple historic buildings and knocked out power to tens of thousands in California’s wine country on Sunday.
A pre-dawn stampede killed 10 people Monday at a Hindu temple in central India, a top police official said.
A suspect in a series of shootings that killed three people and four people within the span of an hour Sunday in the northern suburbs of Los Angeles was taken into custody following a standoff, police said.
Hundreds of people gathered Sunday in St. Louis’ largest park for a festival encouraging peace over violence — an event that took on new resonance after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer.
A woman, her three children and their grandmother were returning home from a family gathering when their car veered off a Long Island highway, crashed into a tree and burst into flames, killing all of them, authorities said Sunday.
Alabama vehicles could soon be sporting license plates featuring the rattlesnake emblem and “Don’t Tread on Me” warning popular with tea party groups.
An American held hostage in Syria by an al-Qaida-linked group has been released after about two years, the Obama administration and a relative confirmed Sunday, days after militants had beheaded a U.S. journalist abducted while covering that country’s civil war.
A Pennsylvania woman has been found guilty of downloading child pornography in a failed attempt to frame her estranged husband.
Chinese authorities blocked an annual independent film festival from opening on Saturday, said organizers of an event that has become a rare and influential venue for the showing of films that could be critical of the government.
The ice bucket challenge’s phenomenal success is making other charitable organizations rethink how they connect with a younger generation of potential donors.
