Investigators do not yet know what caused a FedEx tractor-trailer to veer across a grassy highway median and slam into a bus, killing 10 people, but they are looking into various factors, the California Highway Patrol said Friday.
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A Houston woman was sentenced to life in prison Friday for fatally stabbing her boyfriend with the 5½-inch stiletto heel of her shoe, striking him at least 25 times in the face and head.
As the prosecutor tries to shred his version of events on the night he shot and killed his girlfriend, Oscar Pistorius denies assertions that he’s telling lies. Here’s a look at the main points of contention at Pistorius’ murder trial.
Nine people were killed Thursday in a three-vehicle crash involving a bus carrying high school students on a visit to a college.
A manhunt across Florida ended Thursday with the surrender of a driver blamed in a deadly crash at a day care that injured 14 and killed a 4-year-old girl who was sitting in a classroom awaiting her afternoon snack.
A White House official says Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning from the Obama administration just a week after the close of the rocky enrollment period for President Barack Obama’s health care law.
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said institutional reform centered on more training and tools for officers is needed to curb the “patterns of excessive force” that were turned up by a civil investigation of the Albuquerque Police Department.
The Florida Highway Patrol says a vehicle crashed into a day care center in an Orlando, Fla., suburb and killed one child and injured 14 others.
North and South America, get ready for the first eclipse of the year — in color. And while you watch one of this year’s four eclipses, know that it could spell the demise of a NASA spacecraft called LADEE.
A 16-year-old armed with two knives went on a stabbing and slashing spree at a high school near Pittsburgh on Wednesday, leaving as many as 20 people injured, including a school police officer.
The Ultimate Warrior, one of the most colorful stars in pro wrestling history, died at 54 on Tuesday, the WWE said. Warrior, who legally changed his name from James Hellwig, collapsed while walking with his wife to their car at a Scottsdale, Ariz., hotel and was pronounced dead at a hospital.
A California bill that sought to end killer whale shows at SeaWorld in San Diego and phase out their captivity was put on hold Tuesday, dousing an escalating fight between animal activists and supporters of the major tourist attraction.
A Houston woman was convicted of murder Tuesday for fatally stabbing her boyfriend with the 5½-inch stiletto heel of her shoe, hitting him at least 25 times in the face.
Baggage screeners at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport have discovered two World War I artillery shells in checked luggage that arrived on a flight from London.
A Twitter-like Cuban social media network that the U.S. government built to stir unrest was a “cockamamie” idea doomed to discovery and failure, the chairman of a Senate panel that oversees the U.S. Agency for International Development declared Tuesday. He said the agency didn’t adequately describe to Congress the program it was secretly operating.
