An Italian court convicted the former captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner on Wednesday for his role in the 2012 shipwreck that killed 32 people and sentenced him to 16 years in prison.
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A 46-year-old man has been charged with murder in the shooting deaths of three students in an apartment near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus.
A New York City rookie police officer was indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday for the shooting of an unarmed man while patrolling the darkened stairwell of a housing project last November, the Wall Street Journal reported.
A California educator who resigned after a woman accused her in a YouTube video of abusing her when she was a 12-year-old student was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Relatives of American hostage Kayla Mueller tearfully described their niece on Tuesday, hours after the family announced they’d confirmed she died while held captive in Syria by the Islamist terror group ISIS.
California health officials on Monday warned parents against intentionally exposing their children to measles, which could worsen an outbreak in the state.
An 11-year-old girl in Ohio has been charged with murder after she allegedly beat a 2-month-old baby to death.
A prominent Mormon activist who has gone against the church by supporting same-sex marriage and questioning doctrine has been excommunicated by a council that found he publicly doubted the faith’s core principles, the activist said on Tuesday.
Newsweek magazine’s Twitter account was the victim of hackers on Tuesday who posted a threat to President Barack Obama and his family and the words “CyberCaliphate” and “Je suis IS,” a reference to Islamic State and the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Prosecutors have charged a Charlottesville, Virginia, man with first-degree murder and abduction in the death of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, authorities said on Tuesday.
A stolen car suspect, who carjacked a second vehicle was in custody Monday evening after driving erratically on streets and freeways from downtown Los Angeles to Montebello.
A record-setting run of snowstorms that has pounded the U.S. Northeast over the past two weeks has taken a heavy toll on Massachusetts, taxing supplies of salt to keep roads clear and leaving authorities running out of places to pile the snow.
Same-sex couples began marrying in parts of Alabama on Monday, but some state judges avoided granting marriage licenses to gay couples in apparent defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Gunmen fired on a police car in Marseille on Monday in what local officials said was a drug-related incident, just hours before a visit by Prime Minister Manuel Valls to hail a drop in crime in France’s second city.
ISIS has released a new video in which a captive British journalist acts as though he is reporting on Aleppo in Syria. John Cantlie, who has appeared in previous ISIS videos, calls this one the “last in this series.”
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