It sounded like a thunderstorm as windows broke and the ground shook, but vacationers who were awakened from their rooms at a villa near Orlando, Fla., soon realized that the building was starting to collapse – parts of it swallowed by a 100-foot sinkhole that also endangered two neighboring resort buildings.
James “Whitey” Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation’s most-wanted fugitives, was convicted Monday in a string of 11 killings and dozens of other gangland crimes, many of them committed while he was said to be an FBI informant.
The nation’s largest police department illegally and systematically singled out large numbers of blacks and Hispanics under its controversial stop-and-frisk policy, a federal judge ruled Monday while appointing an independent monitor to oversee major changes, including body cameras on some officers.
A debate about when children should be allowed in restaurants is raging after a Houston restaurant announced a ban on children after 7 p.m.
A judge in Tennessee changed a 7-month-old boy’s name to Martin from Messiah, saying the religious name was earned by one person and “that one person is Jesus Christ.”
A northern Arizona family has survived being lost at sea for weeks after an ill-fated attempt to leave the U.S. over what they consider government interference in religion.
A 2-year-old boy kidnapped from a Rhode Island home where police made an early morning discovery of two bodies was found Sunday night “in good health,” police said.
Four cellphone companies teamed up with documentary director Werner Herzog to produce a 35-minute public service announcement about texting while driving.
While 60 percent of those in the country illegally come from Mexico, according to statistics with the Department of Homeland Security, quite a few Las Vegas immigrants are legal residents and never broke federal immigration laws to become so.
San Diego County Sheriff’s officials say the man suspected of abducting 16-year-old Hannah Anderson has been killed in Idaho and the teen has been found safe.
A 17-year-old graffiti artist’s death, condemned by the Miami art community, has left many shocked, confused and angry.
The death toll in Saturday’s attacks is the highest since July 20, when brazen assaults on two prisons near Baghdad plus other attacks left 71 dead.
More than 1,000 people, including players from the Texas A&M football team, attended Saturday’s funeral of a teammate who died in a car accident in New Mexico.
A fire department official say four bodies have been pulled from the site of where a small plane crashed into two Connecticut homes.
Infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero walked free Friday after 28 years in prison when a court overturned his 40-year sentence for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, a brutal murder that marked a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations.
