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A 55-year-old Blaine man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriend, the Anoka County Attorney's Office announced Monday.

According to the St. Louis County Attorney's office, 22-year-old Tabbatha Lee Olson solicited and promoted several juvenile females for prostitution in the Duluth area.

When news of Yahoo's purchase of Tumblr first hit, Tumblr users took their reactions online.

Midfielder Jack Wilshere tweets first look of the new strip which immediately draws comparisons to the 1960s West German side.

Want to snatch the record for world's longest Ferris wheel ride? You'll need to clear your schedule for two days and leave your pillow at home in order beat the newly reigning champ, a manager of Chicago's Navy Pier who rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel - awake - for 48 hours, 8 minutes, and 25 seconds.

Photo courtesy of Jason Leon, left, and Associated Press/University of Florida Jason Leon, left, gathers up a massive Burmese python he killed while riding late at night in a rural area of southeast Miami-Dade County.

A 19-year-old high school student has been arrested after authorities say she bit her boyfriend's penis when he refused to have sex with her.

A college student in suburban Atlanta is accused of faking his own kidnapping to avoid telling his parents he was failing a class.

While some of the cats look somewhat cute posing on sticky rice, others appear terrified and some are just downright strange.

While few details have been released a Navy spokesman told WAVY-TV the accident happened onboard or near a sealift command ship.

A new flavor being offered at the Annapolis Ice Cream Company has a unique ingredient that locals love.

Tens of thousands of people descended on the San Mateo County Fairgrounds on Saturday for the eighth annual Maker Faire, the enormously popular Do-It-Yourself festival that features everything from bicycle-powered sculptures to Tesla coils to stilt walkers.

A new DC rule calls for unidentified dog mixes to be called Xoloitzcuintli. Not sure what kind of dog you have - other than, of course, loveable? If you live in Washington D.C., identifying your dog to the District's health department just got easier, sort of.

A Powerball lottery ticket is printed out of a lottery machine at a convenience store in Chicago on Saturday, May 18, 2013.

Pot Possession Charge At White Castle May 8: Harold and Kumar would be proud of this trip to White Castle.

Here's a bizarre accident you've never seen before and you may not believe the details of this crash.

Laurel County Sheriff John Root says in a statement that a 47-year-old London woman told deputies she used a blanket to break the glass on her neighbor's front door so she could let two small dogs out of the residence.

IN what country do you think a woman reared a four-legged, two-bottomed chicken? How big is it? Well, the owner of describes it, ominously, as weighing "more than half a cat ". Cats are now the unit of weight for all poultry.

Pottstown Police say a man went to a pharmacy and a pizza shop in Pottstown, and a grocery store in West Pottsgrove Township and tried robbing the places with his fingers in the shape of a gun! They say the man demanded drugs at the pharmacy, but left when the pharmacist told him they didn't have any.

After he finally came down from the truck, police used a Taser on the man, who is suspected of shooting someone earlier in the day.