HANOVER, Mass. — A 6-year-old Massachusetts girl riding her bicycle was kidnapped by a neighbor who tried to rape her, but she managed to escape from his apartment despite being in leg shackles, a state prosecutor said. The girl was found ...Read More
LOS ANGELES (AP) — UCLA starting forward Nikola Dragovic was suspended for the Bruins' game against Cal State-Bakersfield after his arrest. A statement distributed by a team spokesman just before tip-off Friday night said Dragovic was arrested earlier in the day ...Read More
LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears' ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib is being sent to jail for 45 days for leaving the scene of an accident. Los Angeles District Attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison says Ghalib was taken into custody immediately after being sentenced Friday. He ...Read More
Police in Germany and abroad have made several arrests and conducted searches on suspicion of aninternational illegal betting ring allegedly fixing matches in top European leagues, Bochum prosecutors announced on Thursday.
It was not immediately clear how many people and in ...Read More
With the Los Angeles City Council poised to take up a medical marijuana ordinance after two years of contentious debate, L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley warned Tuesday that he intends to prosecute dispensaries that sell the drug even if ...Read More
(NECN/ABC) - In an exclusive interview with ABC's Robin Roberts, to be seen in a special edition for "Prime Time" Wednesday night, Janet Jackson discusses the death of her brother, Michael Jackson.
In a demure voice, reminiscent of her big brother's, ...Read More
A 49-year-old passenger who allegedly refused to move his arm out of the aisle on a transatlantic flight became so belligerent last night that a pilot made an unscheduled landing at Logan International Airport, authorities said. The passenger, John Murray of ...Read More
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez. State prosecutor's spokesman Arturo Sandoval says the ...Read More
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez. State prosecutor's spokesman Arturo Sandoval says ...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 19-year-old New York man who was arrested for armed robbery has been exonerated thanks to a status update he posted on social networking site Facebook. Rodney Bradford was arrested and held for 12 days in connection ...Read More
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four others, authorities said. Investigators have not determined a motive for the shootings late Monday in ...Read More
David Letterman's accused extortionist, Robert Halderman, is asking the judge to dismiss the extortion case against him.
In papers filed with the court, Halderman's lawyer wrote, "The sensationalism surrounding this indictment, fueled by the celebrity of the purported victim and the ...Read More
TIJUANA, Mexico—Prosecutors in the Mexico state of Baja California say they freed a U.S. citizen who was kidnapped last week near the border. Assistant state prosecutor Fermin Gomez says the 21-year-old woman was found in a closet in the border city ...Read More
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Authorities say gunmen have killed a police commander in Mexico's deadliest city, where a dismembered, decapitated body was found hours before. Police spokesman Jacinto Segura says Noel Martinez was shot inside his car Friday morning. Martinez is ...Read More
A year ago Sunday, a group of teens left Marcelo Lucero bleeding and dying on a street in Patchogue, New York - with a knife wound to the chest. Lucero, 37, was an immigrant from Ecuador whose death has become ...Read More
(CNN) -- A 14-year-old California boy told police he drowned his 4-year-old neighbor on Friday because the child had threatened to tell his mother the older boy had molested him, according to an affidavit made public Wednesday. Raul Renato Castro has ...Read More
Another suspect is down for the count.
Los Angeles police confirmed to E! News Wednesday that Jonathan Ajar, 27, another suspected member of a burglary ring that hit up the houses of Hollywood's rich, young and famous is in custody after ...Read More
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An 11-year-old New Mexico boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the August shooting death of his father. District Attorney Lemuel Martinez says his office filed the charge Tuesday. Belen Police Sgt. Joe Portio says evidence supports the ...Read More
Reporting from Paris - A French magistrate Friday ordered former president Jacques Chirac to stand trial on charges of misusing millions of dollars in public funds by allegedly paying friends and colleagues who did not work for him while he ...Read More
LOS ANGELES — Criminal charges won't be filed against 30 Los Angeles police officers who fired rubber bullets and pummeled demonstrators with batons at a pro-immigration rally two years ago, prosecutors said Friday. The district attorney's office called the May Day ...Read More
The hero guard who saved a Belmont psychiatrist being slashed by a bipolar patient said he’s no hero, just a regular guy who does his job and enjoys walking his dog “Champ.”
“I just did what anyone would have done,” Paul ...Read More
