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Authorities say a motivational speaker accused in the slaying of a Las Vegas woman told police the two were in a meditation session in her home when he decided to kill her. Read More

A 22-year-old North Carolina woman who put her toddler in boiling water and burned his foot with a cigarette has been sentenced to prison. Read More

Houses with dreary urban facades covered in polka dots. A traveling dollhouse made from the remnants of abandoned homes. A dilapidated residence covered in ice. Read More

After three days of searching the flanks of Mount Hood for two missing climbers, officials were assessing what to do next as a winter storm barreled toward Oregon's largest peak. Read More

Two weather systems were forecast to produce unsettling weather activity in the West and East on Tuesday. Read More

The $15,000 that former Army Pvt. Margaret Ortiz had in the bank when she left Iraq is long gone, spent on alcohol and cocaine. Read More

Pittsburgh police say an armed gang of teenagers tried to carjack an officer who was sitting in her personal vehicle while getting ready to go to work. Read More

Members of a family living in Southern California were found dead Monday in a home inside an upscale gated community in Orange County, authorities said. Read More

A 14-year-old boy is facing charges, and two school officials are on administrative leave, after authorities say a 12-year-girl was raped in a stairwell at a San Francisco Bay-area school. Read More

A south Texas couple put an aborted 7-month-old fetus in a gift box under a Christmas tree after they were unable to flush the remains down a toilet, authorities alleged Monday. Read More

Three Providence, R.I., police detectives have been shot and wounded during a drug raid. Read More

Doctors at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in this quiet, bucolic town tucked between coal country and the nation's capital used to go months without treating a female veteran. Read More

Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr. is back on the job. Read More

Missouri acknowledged Monday that it reported inflated numbers of food stamp recipients to the federal government, calling into question millions of dollars of bonuses paid to the state for running one of the nation's top-flight programs. Read More

A man has been convicted of torture and attempted murder for beating and kidnapping a 76-year-old California woman and holding her in a car trunk for 26 hours. Read More

A Louisiana high school student was killed after she fell into the path of a departing school bus during a fight with another student. Read More

One man was killed and another wounded during an early Monday robbery at a downtown Anchorage hotel, police said. Read More

Two Riverside County men have been found guilty of murdering an 18-year-old girl, putting her body in a 55-gallon drum and leaving it in a field in Southern California. Read More

Students returned Monday to a New Jersey high school that prosecutors say was the target of a "Columbine-like" plot and were greeted by a police presence that was intended to reassure that Bridgewater-Raritan High School was safe. Read More

As of Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, at least 4,370 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. Read More