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The pregnant woman's body was found on a rooftop in 1989 after a horrific attack: Her head was missing.

An anonymous caller to Indiana's child abuse hotline pleaded for 20 minutes for someone to check on conditions in a South Bend home six months before a boy living there was tortured to death, a newspaper reports.

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. - Law enforcement officials have defended the initial police conclusion on the morning of the Virginia Tech mass killings that first two shootings on April 16, 2007, bore all the signs of domestic violence and not the work of a deranged gunman.

The case against a man accused of driving an SUV onto the runway at Philadelphia International Airport is being transferred to federal court.

A secret New York Police Department program to spy on Muslim businesses, infiltrate mosques and monitor Muslim students on college campuses has ignited a debate over how to strike a balance between civil liberties and national security.

Pennsylvania state prosecutors and Jerry Sandusky's lawyers will appear in a central Pennsylvania courtroom Monday morning to argue before a judge about how much information the former Penn State coach should get in advance of his trial on child sexual abuse charges.The topic of the hearing in the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte is the "bill ... (more)

One major decision looms for the former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man: whether to testify in his own trial.

A battle between Kentucky newspapers and the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services over access to child death records has created what Democratic Rep.

Influential black legislative leaders as well as patient advocacy groups targeting mental illness, arthritis, diabetes, AIDs and other chronic diseases and conditions are pushing to get the Cuomo administration to relax a cost-cutting measure that they say forces patients to use inadequate medications.

In this March 23, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama is applauded after signing the Affordable Care Act into law in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

Delia Henry was tired but had no idea her blood sugar was high when she went to Planned Parenthood for her annual gynecological exam.

Mississippi's Supreme Court last week upheld the controversial pardons of more than 200 convicts that former Gov.

RICHMOND, Va. - More than 1,000 women locked arm-in-arm in silent protest. Police in riot gear confronting women's-rights demonstrators on the Capitol steps.

A Northern Indiana newspaper was forced to remove a story from its website after a last-minute reversal from an appeals court.

The man who police say fatally shot a medical worker and wounded six other people at a psychiatric clinic was a gifted, hardworking student at one school yet was banned from another for harassing female students, school officials said Saturday.

NEW YORK A nationwide drug shortage that's dogging the food and drug administration is hitting home with first responders.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A 39-year-old man charged in connection with threatening letters containing white powder that were sent to members of Congress and some media organizations was arrested Friday.

A former assistant professor of justice studies at California State University has been sentenced to 37 and 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing an infant.

Virginia Tech officials spent the last four days defending their actions during the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, telling opposing lawyers who peppered them with difficult questions that they did what they could under the grim circumstances.

Raising campaign cash in Republican territory, President Barack Obama on Friday hailed a rebounding economy and accused Republicans of banking on voters having "amnesia" about the steps that led to a brutal economic collapse.