A serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” was sentenced to death Wednesday for the murders of nine women and a teenage girl that went unsolved for years as the body count grew in a poor section of Los Angeles haunted by the scourge of crack cocaine.
About 300 people attended a candlelight vigil at the Hendersonville home where an 11-year-old girl was accidentally shot to death by her father.
Twelve prematurely born babies were killed in a fire that broke out in the early hours of Wednesday on a maternity ward in a Baghdad hospital and was probably caused by an electrical fault, Iraqi authorities said.
A woman was fatally shot by an officer while participating in a “shoot-don’t shoot” exercise during a two-hour citizens academy hosted by the Punta Gorda Police Department in southwest Florida.
Longtime ESPN television host John Saunders has died at the age of 61, the cable sports network said on Wednesday.
Tesla said on Wednesday that one of its cars had crashed in Beijing while in ‘autopilot’ mode, with the driver contending sales staff sold the function as ‘self-driving,’ overplaying its actual capabilities.
The head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division says the Baltimore Police Department’s unconstitutional and discriminatory practices have “deeply eroded” the relationship between officers and the community.
After a one-off at bantamweight in his Resurrection Fighting Alliance debut, Shai “Must Be Nice” Lindsey will return to flyweight at RFA 42. Lindsey hopes he’ll rebound into the win column and prove he’s ready for the big stage.
More than a third of the 49 patrons killed during the Pulse nightclub massacre were shot in the head and most of the victims had multiple bullet wounds.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling invalidated a law enacted by New Jersey in 2014 that would have allowed sports betting at casinos and racetracks. The court found New Jersey’s law repealing prohibitions against sports gambling violated the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, which forbids state-authorized sports gambling.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said at a campaign stop in Miami on Tuesday that she thinks congressional leaders should hold a special session to pass a funding bill to combat the Zika virus.
A Kansas waterslide billed as the world’s tallest remained off-limits as authorities pressed to figure out how a state lawmaker’s 10-year-old son died of a neck injury while riding it.
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday upheld the 14-year prison sentence for ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich despite his emotional plea for leniency after an appeals court set aside part of his public corruption conviction.
Officials say an infant whose mother traveled to a Zika-infected area in Latin America died shortly after birth in a suburban Houston hospital, marking the first Zika-related death in Texas.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man who may have been involved in a sexual assault against an employee at a southeast valley hotel Saturday afternoon.
