A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney Tuesday, leading prison officials to halt the proceedings before the inmate’s eventual death from a heart attack.
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Authorities at Grand Canyon National Park have released the name of a Flagstaff woman who died after apparently falling off the South Rim.
Providence police have arrested a man who allegedly wielded a potato disguised as a gun during a robbery attempt last week.
A Mississippi meteorologist ordered staff at WTVA in Tupelo to evacuate the set as a tornado slammed the city during a live report.
A chain of deadly tornadoes over three days flattened homes and businesses in the South, forcing frightened residents in more than half a dozen states to take cover and leaving tens of thousands in the dark Tuesday. More storms are on the way.
Authorities now say 11 people were hurt — two critically — in an explosion and fire at a Southern California metal polishing business.
A 14-year-old Chicago girl has been charged with 1st degree murder after shooting another teen dead following a Facebook dispute concerning a boy.
Search crews have found a father and his two children who had been missing for more than two days in the vast woods and swamps of the Congaree National Park in South Carolina.
A FedEx employee wearing ammunition draped across his chest “like Rambo” opened fire Tuesday at a package-sorting center outside Atlanta, wounding six people before apparently committing suicide, police and witnesses said.
Newspapers in the United Arab Emirates are reporting that the American drummer for the rock band Scorpions has been sentenced to one month in jail after being convicted of offensive behavior in Dubai.
A teenager charged in the fatal stabbing of a Connecticut high school student told a police officer after the attack: “I did it,” according to a court filing released Tuesday.
An Italian court that convicted Amanda Knox in her roommate’s 2007 murder said in lengthy reasoning made public Tuesday that the victim’s wounds indicate multiple aggressors, and that the two exchange students fought over money on the night of the murder.
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.
