Fri, Jul 10th, 2009 | Entertainment |

ALSIP, Illinois (CNN) -- A Cook County cemetery where hundreds of graves were dug up and allegedly resold has been declared a crime scene, meaning that relatives of people believed buried there will not be allowed to visit for several ...Read More

Tenn. slayings suspect asked to hug daughter

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn.—A man charged with fatally stabbing and beating six people in Tennessee and Alabama asked a responding deputy to let him hug his 4-year-old daughter -- the only person spared in the attack, the deputy testified Thursday. Testifying at a ...Read More

GOP Leaders Denounce Medicare 'Doc Fix'

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | Health |

House Republican leaders on Thursday denounced an expected move by House Democrats to introduce their version of the so-called "doc fix," a $210 billion plan to keep doctors who treat Medicare patients from experiencing severe cuts in their annual federal ...Read More

Fifth suspect arrested in Mont Vernon, NH slaying

Wed, Nov 18th, 2009 | U.S. |

Fifth suspect arrested in Mont Vernon, NH slaying Mark Wilson for The Boston Globe A section of Trow Road was closed as police scrutinized the crime scene last month. New Hampshire authorities have announced a fifth arrest in the Oct. 4 machete slaying of a 42-year-old woman in a house ...Read More

Plane crashes in San Gabriel; pilot dies

Sat, Nov 14th, 2009 | Top Stories |

A single-engine plane crashed this afternoon in San Gabriel, killing the pilot. The plane took off from Brackett Field in La Verne and was headed to Van Nuys when it crashed in the 5100 block of Walnut Grove Avenue, Los Angeles ...Read More

5 bodies found inside homes in Arkansas

Thu, Nov 12th, 2009 | U.S. |

PEARCY, Ark. (AP) - Authorities say they found four bodies in a burning mobile home in southwest Arkansas and another person was found dead inside a nearby house. Officials say around 2:30 Thursday morning authorities in Pearcy received a report of ...Read More

Missouri Land Scoured in Sex Crimes Case

Thu, Nov 12th, 2009 | U.S. |

LEXINGTON, Mo. (Nov. 12) - An excavation was scheduled to resume Thursday at a rural western Missouri property where authorities believe they may find bodies and buried glass jars with notes written by children who may have documented sexual abuse. The ...Read More

5 men accused of sex with kin

Thu, Nov 12th, 2009 | U.S. |

LEXINGTON, Mo. -- Authorities were searching a rural property in western Missouri yesterday for bodies and buried glass jars containing notes written more than 15 years ago by children who might have documented sexual abuse by five members of their ...Read More

Missouri officials search for more victims, clues in child-abuse case

Thu, Nov 12th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

Missouri officials search for more victims, clues in child-abuse case (CNN) -- Investigators are searching the property that once belonged to one of five members of a Missouri family arrested on multiple child sexual abuse charges for "a body or bodies," the Lafayette County sheriff said Wednesday. Sheriff Kerrick Alumbaugh said ...Read More

Five men charged with sex crimes against kids

Wed, Nov 11th, 2009 | U.S. |

LEXINGTON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities on Wednesday were searching a rural property in western Missouri for bodies and buried glass jars containing notes written more than 15 years ago by children who may have documented sexual abuse by five members ...Read More

Search in family sex abuse case also is for bodies, Lafayette sheriff says

Wed, Nov 11th, 2009 | Most Viewed, Top Stories |

Search in family sex abuse case also is for bodies, Lafayette sheriff says LEXINGTON | Authorities are searching a rural property near Bates City, Mo., looking for bodies, as well as buried jars of written memories of anguish and horror allegedly left years ago by sexually abused children. Indications are that “an individual or ...Read More

No bail in case of slain pregnant woman from Ore.

Tue, Nov 10th, 2009 | U.S. |

A pregnant woman was repeatedly beaten with a collapsible police baton before a "cutting instrument" was used to slice open her abdomen and remove her fetus, a detective testified Tuesday. Another woman, Korena Roberts, is accused of aggravated murder in the ...Read More

Gunman Reportedly Holding High School Principal in Dutchess County, NY

Tue, Nov 10th, 2009 | Most Viewed, U.S. |

A gunman reportedly took the principal hostage at an upstate New York high school Tuesday, but the students are safe, a town official said. Police said that Stissing Mountain High School in Pine Plains, N.Y., was on lockdown because of an ...Read More

Teen killed while sleeping at Ore. hunting camp

Tue, Nov 10th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

TERREBONNE, Ore.—Authorities say a 14-year-old boy is dead and his cousin is in custody after a bullet came through the wall of the motor home the boy was sleeping in at a central Oregon hunting camp and struck him in ...Read More

4 found shot to death in Texas home

Mon, Nov 9th, 2009 | U.S. |

San Jacinto County Sheriff James Walters said Monday it appeared that a man fatally shot his girlfriend, her 4-year-old daughter and his adopted mother before killing himself. Walters says that the gunman "might have been off his medication." He declined to ...Read More

Katt Williams arrested on burglary charge

Mon, Nov 9th, 2009 | Entertainment, U.S. |

NEWNAN, Georgia - Comedian and rapper Katt Williams remained jailed in suburban Atlanta on Monday after police said they arrested the entertainer for breaking into a home. Williams, who police say is 38, is charged with burglary and criminal trespassing, according ...Read More

Texas Police Find Family Shot to Death in Home

Mon, Nov 9th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

CLEVELAND, Texas — Authorities called to check on a family's well-being in a rural southeast Texas home found the bodies of four people who had been shot to death. San Jacinto County Sheriff James Walters said Monday it appeared that a ...Read More

Lost deer breaks into Pinellas Co. home

Mon, Nov 9th, 2009 | U.S. |

TAMPA, Fla. -- Call it a deer home invasion. Two Pinellas County sheriff's deputies responded to calls of a house being burglarized Sunday morning. They found a broken window and there a blood trail. Once inside, though, they discovered that their suspect ...Read More

North Dakota Softball Players: Cell Phone Calls Helped Find Them, But Not Soon Enough

Thu, Nov 5th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

North Dakota Softball Players: Cell Phone Calls Helped Find Them, But Not Soon Enough (CBS/Lenny Gemar/Dickinson Press)Photo: Ashley Neufeld, Kyrstin Gemar and Afton Williamson. DICKINSON, N.D. (CBS/AP) The three Dickinson State University North Dakota softball players believed to have been on a stargazing trip were found dead inside a Jeep after signals from their last ...Read More

Anthony Sowell's neighbors wonder how stench of rotting bodies went unidentified for years

Wed, Nov 4th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

Anthony Sowell's neighbors wonder how stench of rotting bodies went unidentified for years nChuck Crow, The Plain DealerThe crime scene around Anthony Sowell's home is still blocked off at the intersection of East 123rd Street and Imperial Avenue. People in the neighborhood believe the strong odor in the area came from a sausage ...Read More

Sheriff's deputy shot, wounded in Lawndale

Wed, Nov 4th, 2009 | Top Stories |

LAWNDALE, Calif. -- Los Angeles County sheriff's officials say a deputy has been shot and wounded in Lawndale. Deputy Byron Ward says the deputy was shot in the back or shoulder Tuesday night and taken to a hospital. Ward says the ...Read More