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.
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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.
The doctor has beaten the odds and survived Ebola, but he still has one more problem: The stigma carried by the deadly disease.
Scripts for “Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles’ camera and a cigar ashtray were among the late director’s belongings sold at a New York auction.
Pope Francis declared Popes John XXIII and John Paul II saints before some 800,000 people on Sunday in an unprecedented ceremony made even more historic by the presence of emeritus Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square.
Investigators say the teacher in the Aldine (AHL’-deen) Independent School District allegedly did the suggestive dance on Feb. 26 at Stovall Middle School in front of other students.
