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A white retired police officer was acquitted Tuesday of manslaughter and assault for shooting two unarmed black men, angering the victims' families and prompting a call for peace from the city's mayor. Read More

A man accused of aiming a rifle at a teacher in a Virginia community college and firing several shots was arrested Tuesday. No injuries were reported. Read More

A 29-year-old homeless woman has given birth to a baby girl after, police said, she was befriended by a Maryland woman who held her captive for several days and tried to cut the baby from her womb. Read More

Alex Palmieri was 15 when witnesses say he was repeatedly beaten with a baseball bat in a Bridgeport garage in 1984. Read More

Commuters who cried during a Long Island traffic jam may give pause over the cause: a truck wreck that spilled thousands of gallons of milk. Read More

Fierce winds ripped away the roof of a police station, thousands of people lost power and drivers stuck by closed highways settled in to wait as storms swept out of the West to the nation's midsection Tuesday. Read More

Police say a doctor in eastern Kentucky has been shot to death at a medical clinic and a man has been taken into custody. Read More

Ohio executed a killer Tuesday by performing the nation's first lethal injection using a single drug, a supposedly less painful method than previous executions that required three drugs. Read More

A man has been rescued more than four hours after becoming trapped up to his chest in a collapsed Long Island cesspool. Read More

The Oregon Humane Society has sent a team to rescue as many as 100 dogs living without shelter in cold weather on rural property. Read More

A California attorney has died after being shot in the head outside his Los Angeles area home. Read More

After North Carolina was forced to release a series of wrongly convicted people from prisons early in the decade, leaders established a pioneering agency to swiftly assess claims of innocence. Read More

A Tennessee mayor is apologizing for writing on his Facebook page that President Barack Obama deliberately timed a speech last week to block the "Peanuts" Christmas special. Read More

The man charged in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart has a delusional disorder and exhibited deviant sexual behavior and paranoia as a teen, a forensic psychologist testified Tuesday. Read More

A 15-year-old Missouri girl pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing a 9-year-old neighbor who authorities say was slain because the teen wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone. Read More

A convicted Cuban spy's prison term has been reduced from life to 30 years after an appeals court ruled the original sentence was too severe. Read More

Four Missouri men have received prison sentences for federal crimes involving dogfighting. Read More

Ballots cast in a tight Atlanta runoff race for mayor will be recounted at the request of the runner-up, who lost by just over 700 votes. Read More

A Chicago man charged with helping to plan the terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that left 166 dead will appear in court on Wednesday to respond to the charges, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Read More

Louisiana's Democratic lieutenant governor says that he's going to take a third shot at becoming New Orleans' mayor. Read More