Holyoke News

Rapper Lil Wayne is attempting to stomp his way out of controversy after a clip of him walking on the American flag went viral over the weekend.

Al-Qaida-linked militants detonated multiple bomb blasts and engaged in ongoing battles with security forces in an attempt to breach the main U.N. compound in Mogadishu, officials said Wednesday.

A serial sex offender was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for raping and murdering an Irish woman while he was free on parole after previous convictions for raping five women.

A 13-year-old boy from a New Orleans suburb was charged with second-degree murder in the death of his 5-year-old half-sister after investigators said he told them he repeatedly struck her with wrestling moves imitated from TV.

Police have arrested two people, including a 15-year-old girl, in connection with a bleach attack and robbery on a Boston bus.

A judge Tuesday declared a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl.

According to Meteorologist Nick Morganelli, a flash flood watch for street flooding is in effect through 9 p.m. Tuesday.

A Metro-North Railroad spokeswoman says a student traffic controller and his supervisor were suspended without pay after a track foreman was struck and killed by a train last month.

Authorities say 19-year-old city resident Keith Callabrass was shot multiple times Sunday night on Cleveland Avenue in the North End.

A Fall River man has been convicted of killing one man and injuring another in an early morning shooting on the city streets nearly four years ago.

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in and around a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing thirteen people and wounding 32, according to Iraqi authorities.

Prominent British art collector Charles Saatchi has admitted assault and accepted a police caution after published photos showed him grasping the throat of his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson.

Police say 18-year-old Jonathan Ramos fell from the cliff in an area known as High Rock at about 7:45 p.m. Monday.

Photographer Kimberly Burke captured soon-to-be newlyweds Josh Curtas and Bre Curtas praying together before their wedding.

They found one person dead inside a car. Witnesses told police that the shooter had run into a nearby house.

Maine state police say a cyclist killed during the Trek Across Maine likely veered into the path of a tractor-trailer when he had one hand on his handlebar while sipping water.

MONDAY, June 17 -- Being picked on by your brother or sister may seem like a normal part of growing up, but for some kids the bullying may be a source of depression and anxiety, a new study suggests.

A Japanese aircraft carrier and two destroyers are attacked during the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

Three bomb attacks in Iraq including a blast inside a roadside restaurant killed 12 people on Monday, officials said, the latest in a surge of violence that has left nearly 2,000 dead since the beginning of April.

A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of walking into a Catholic church and shooting his father-in-law in the back of the head during Mass.