Tue, Nov 3rd, 2009 | Most Viewed, Top Stories, U.S. |

(CNN) -- Police discovered a seventh body at the Cleveland, Ohio, home of a convicted rapist arrested this weekend after the decomposing bodies of women were unearthed at his residence, a source close to the investigation told CNN. Local authorities are ...Read More

South Africans Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Prison Release

Thu, Feb 11th, 2010 | World |

South Africans Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Prison Release South Africans Thursday celebrated the release from prison 20 years ago of former President Nelson Mandela. For many the event signaled the beginning of the end of apartheid. Thousands of South Africans Thursday gathered outside the Groot Drakenstein prison near Cape ...Read More

Troops take on looters in Haiti strife

Tue, Jan 19th, 2010 | Top Stories, World |

Port-au-Prince - Troops struggled Tuesday to control looters in Port-au-Prince a week after the earthquake which devastated Haiti, as rescuers still pulled babies and women from the rubble and kept alive hope of finding more survivors. With the stench of urine ...Read More

US troops to help Haiti security, aid flows in

Sun, Jan 17th, 2010 | Most Viewed, Top Stories, World |

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - U.S. troops will help U.N. peacekeepers keep order on Haiti's increasingly lawless streets, the country's president said on Sunday as aid workers struggled to get food and medical assistance to desperate earthquake survivors. World leaders have pledged massive ...Read More

World Pledges Quake Aid, Haitians Still Waiting

Sun, Jan 17th, 2010 | Most Viewed, Top Stories, World |

Filed at 3:43 a.m. ET PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - World leaders have stepped up to pledge aid to rebuild a devastated Haiti, but on the streets of its wrecked capital quake survivors were still waiting on Sunday for the basics: food, water ...Read More

Quinn: Ill. Early secret prison release a mistake

Wed, Dec 30th, 2009 | U.S. |

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn reversed a secret policy Wednesday that allowed more than 1,700 inmates to be released from state prison early, some of whom have already been sent back for new offenses, including aggravated battery, weapons charges ...Read More

Man accused of strangling 11 women to face more charges

Tue, Dec 1st, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

(CNN) -- Anthony Sowell, who is accused of raping and strangling women and then burying them in his Cleveland, Ohio, home, will face additional charges, prosecutors said Tuesday. Authorities found the remains of 11 women in or around the house. Sowell, 50, ...Read More

Pictures: Who Were the Women Found at Anthony Sowell's House?

Mon, Nov 16th, 2009 | U.S. |

(National Center for Missing Adults)Photo: Tonia Carmichael. CLEVELAND (CBS/AP) Authorities have now identified 10 of the 11 victims whose remains were found at the Cleveland home of accused serial killer Anthony Sowell. PICTURES: Anthony Sowell Victims Police say Sowell, who has so far ...Read More

Police Search Home Near Sowell's as Victims' Families Hold Funerals

Sun, Nov 15th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

CLEVELAND — Cleveland police focused their search for evidence on a house just four doors down from suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell's home on Saturday, after a 9-year-old girl told authorities she found something in the backyard, Fox8.com reported. Cleveland Police ...Read More

FBI digs into backyard of Ohio home with 11 bodies

Sat, Nov 14th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

CLEVELAND -- FBI agents sifted through dirt with rakes and shovels Saturday in the backyard of a suspected serial killer's home and ran a thermal-imaging device across the ground near the area where the decomposing bodies of several women were ...Read More

Police Identify Skull Found in Anthony Sowell's House of Horrors as Leshanda Long

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

(AP/John Kuntz, Plain Dealer; CPD)CLEVELAND (CBS/AP) Police in Cleveland have identified a 10th woman whose skull was discovered wrapped in paper in a bucket at the home of accused serial killer Anthony Sowell. PICTURES: Anthony Sowell's Home of Horror Police Lt. Thomas ...Read More

Stench Returns To Accused Serial Killer's Neighborhood As Police Search For More Bodies Next Door

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

CLEVELAND — A stench around the home of a suspected serial killer returned stronger than ever Wednesday as police searched the house next door for more bodies and carried out bags of evidence. "It's like it got worse," said 22-year-old neighbor ...Read More

Ohio: Two More Bodies Found in House

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

Police say they have identified two more apparent victims of a serial killer in Cleveland. They say the remains of 48-year-old Janice Webb and 44-year-old Kim Yvette Smith were identified by the Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office. Ms. Webb was last ...Read More

Two More Victims Identified at Home of Accused Ohio Serial Killer

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

CLEVELAND — Two more families received word that their loved ones remains were among the bodies discovered at the Cleveland home of accused serial killer Anthony Sowell, Fox 8 Cleveland reported. Janice Webb, 48, who vanished in June, was revealed to ...Read More

4th body at Cleveland residence identified

Fri, Nov 6th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

Cleveland, Ohio (CNN) -- Authorities on Friday released the name of a fourth victim found last week in or around the home of registered sex offender. The family of Nancy Cobbs, 43, reported her missing to the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority ...Read More

Neighbors: Suspected serial killer seemed harmless

Fri, Nov 6th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

CLEVELAND -The man who lived in the house of rotting corpses never gave people a reason to wonder what he was really doing behind closed doors. Anthony Sowell was the guy who liked to sit on his front steps drinking King ...Read More

Mistrust hinders ID of Cleveland slaying victims

Fri, Nov 6th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

CLEVELAND—Police say there's only one way for the families of missing women to know for sure if their loved ones are among the victims found in suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell's house: Give DNA samples. But relatives with checkered pasts ...Read More

Serial slay suspect seemed 'civilized'

Thu, Nov 5th, 2009 | Most Viewed |

CLEVELAND - Suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell seemed like a “civilized person” on the April evening that Tanja Doss went up to his third-floor bedroom for a beer - until, she said, he leapt up and began choking her and ...Read More

Police identify one of Cleveland victims

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

CLEVELAND - The number of women found dead in the home of a Cleveland sex offender rose to 11 Wednesday, and the police announced the first identification of one of the victims. The victim, Tonia Carmichael, 52, disappeared last November, police ...Read More

More Bodies Found at Cleveland Home

Mon, Nov 2nd, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

CLEVELAND (AP) — More remains were discovered Tuesday at the Cleveland home of a convicted rapist, raising to 10 the number of bodies that has been found there, the authorities said. Four more bodies and a skull were found at the ...Read More