The mother of a 2-year-old girl who became known as Baby Doe after her remains washed up on a Boston Harbor island is expected to remain behind bars for two more weeks.
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A Dutch art sleuth whose search for purloined paintings and sculptures has led to Ukrainian militiamen and Nazi memorabilia collectors has joined the hunt for what he calls the “Holy Grail”: A collection worth $500 million that represents the largest art heist in U.S. history.
Inside a Utah warehouse, engineers send water down a replica of a section of a dam built out of wood, concrete and steel — trying to pinpoint what repairs will work best at the tallest dam in the U.S. for a spillway torn apart during heavy winter rains.
Here are your Monday afternoon headlines.
A former Las Vegas kindergarten teacher must serve 12½ years to life in prison for secretly keeping a 16-year-old girl in his apartment for two months.
Senate Republicans were barreling ahead Monday for a showdown vote on a health care reform bill despite independent analysis that showed the GOP plan would leave 22 million uninsured.
A hand-drawn map that shows Walt Disney’s original ideas for Disneyland has sold at auction for $708,000.
A Spanish judge on Monday ordered the remains of artist Salvador Dali to be exhumed to settle a paternity suit, despite opposition from the state-run foundation that manages the artist’s estate.
Eight people were injured Sunday night when an SUV crashed into a motel swimming pool, Los Angeles police said. The driver lost control of his vehicle, crashed through a brick wall and landed in the swimming pool, police said.
The mother of Philando Castile, a black motorist killed by a Minnesota police officer last year, has reached a nearly $3 million settlement in his death, according to an announcement Monday by her attorneys and the Minneapolis suburb that employed the officer.
Whatever went wrong in the air off Australia’s west coast on Sunday, it started quickly and violently, and it did not stop for far too long.
A SpaceX rocket carried 10 communications satellites into orbit from California on Sunday, two days after the company successfully launched a satellite from Florida.
A teenage girl escaped serious injury Saturday evening after falling 25 feet from an amusement park ride in Upstate New York – and into the arms of a crowd that had gathered below to catch her.
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