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A jury sentenced a suburban Dallas man to 45 years in prison Friday for knowingly infecting six women with the AIDS virus. Philippe Padieu, described by his own lawyer as a "modern-day Casanova," shook his head and looked down when the decision was read.
A 9-year-old girl whose mother allegedly perpetrated a kidnapping hoax was reunited with her father Thursday in Florida.... told ABC's "Good Morning America" he was "elated" to hear Julia's voice on the telephone....
The California Sunday school teacher accused in the shocking kidnap, rape and murder of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu now is being accused of secretly poisoning two people, including another little girl.
Report: widespread abuse of Irish children in Catholic Church-run institutions The government did little as Generations of children were abused, according to the nearly decade-long investigation. Counseling centers report a surge in callers since the report's release.
A Bakersfield father is accused of biting out one of the eyes of his small child and similarly mutilating the other eye, leaving the child blind. After attacking the child, 34-year-old Angel Vidal Mendoza Sr. quickly left his apartment in a wheelchair, entered a backyard of a nearby vacant home and attacked his own legs with an ax, severely injuring himself.... The child, 4-year-old Angelo Mendoza Jr., later told police, "My daddy ate my eyes."... unknown whether the child will regain vision in his right eye....
Authorities say a student shot himself in the head at a Louisiana middle school after firing a handgun in a student-filled classroom. There were conflicting reports about whether the student fired the .32-caliber handgun at a teacher.
According to a report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old U.S. Naval Observatory, which is now the home of the vice president. The bunker is believed to be the secure, undisclosed location former Vice President Dick Cheney remained under protection in secret after the 9/11 attacks.
ROXBURY TWP. - Oklahoma authorities confirmed the identity Tuesday of Deputy Mayor Jim Rilee's daughter, who was found dead under suspicious circumstances in a state park in Oklahoma. Jody Nicole Rilee-Wilson, 23, had been missing since last Tuesday.
Terrified residents at a Corpus Christi, Texas, state school for the mentally disabled were forced to be part of a brutal "fight club" operated by night shift employees, who made videos of the sessions with their cell phones, the newly released videos show. On the videos employees can be seen and heard laughing and prodding the residents to fight.
ALTUS, OK - A Fort Sill-based soldier from Texas has been arrested on a first-degree murder complaint in the shooting death of a bar owner near the southwest Oklahoma town of Eldorado.
A man was caught in Tampa Tuesday for allegedly throwing his ex-girlfriend's 4-month-old baby out of a car window, killing the child.
Investigators were searching Monday for a 3-year-old boy who was kidnapped at gunpoint by two men who broke into his family's California home, tied up his mother and siblings and ransacked the house.... Police said they had not determined a motive for the Sunday afternoon kidnapping....
A man who Los Angeles police believe raped and murdered dozens of women decades ago was arrested by cold case investigators this month after a computer matched his DNA to evidence from two killings in the 1970s.
The wedding is off, the attorney confirmed, and not likely to ever happen.
A North Carolina congresswoman says she made a poor choice of words when she called the infamous murder of a gay Wyoming student a "hoax" to justify passing hate crimes bills. ... Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx said the 1998 death of Matthew Shepard wasn't a hate crime....
Thirteen people were killed at a university in Azerbaijan Thursday when a gunman went from floor to floor firing on teachers and students after the bell rang for morning classes. The gunman, a Georgian citizen of Azeri origin described as a loner by local media, was among the dead.
Two Clare brothers [36yo & 43yo] charged with burning the anus of a 6-year-old boy with a propane torch could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted of first-degree child abuse.... "They said they were disciplining the child for making a mess in his pants...."
A number of people were injured - one seriously - when a hand grenade was thrown at them outside a Christiania cafe... in the Christiania area of Copenhagen. ... so far police have found no trace of the attacker....
TRACY, Calif. — Detective Nate Cogburn's last few months have been filled with the stuff of nightmares. Neighbors charged with shackling and torturing a teenager in a Tracy home. A substitute teacher accused of molesting upward of 15 students. A surgeon arrested for the alleged sexual abuse of dozens of patients. And, most recently, a Sunday school teacher charged with kidnapping, raping and murdering the playmate of her own little girl.
A research professor at Clemson University was among the three victims shot to death outside a community theater in Athens, Ga., yesterday, and the University of Georgia professor who is suspected in the killings remained at large as of this evening
George Zinkhan is on the lam after a deadly, multiple shooting in Georgia during which he killed his wife. Cops call it a "crime of passion" that happened in broad daylight while the shooter's two young children waited in his car nearby. Authorities think he's either on the way to Texas where he has relatives or to Amsterdam where he owns a home.
Two north Florida sheriff's deputies were fatally shot at a shooting range by a suspect who was later killed in an exchange of gunfire with deputies after he fled across the county line
The body of a 3-year-old New Jersey girl was found in the Passaic River, just hours after her uncle left with her and told family members "to watch the 6 o'clock news tonight."
says she remembers Markoff as being "extremely brilliant. Our junior year in college before organic chemistry exams, we would study together. I had been studying all week. He would come in the morning, 9:00 in the library, sit down next to me, saying, 'I haven't opened a book, I don't know anything. Teach me something." ' Houston says Markoff was a serious partier. Still, she observed, "Everyone partied. But when he partied, he'd party. But he would also stay in a lot."
The phone in the Parentes' 10th-floor hotel room rang just before midnight. By then, a mother and two daughters staying there had been beaten and suffocated by the man who answered the phone. Not long after taking that call -- from a college roommate of his older daughter's -- the father used a knife to commit suicide.
Boston cops on Monday night branded a 22-year-old med student engaged to be married as the "Craigslist Killer" who murdered a pretty New York masseuse and attacked at least two other escorts in hotels.
Prosecutors here said on Tuesday that investigators had discovered a semi-automatic handgun, ammunition, and plastic ties in the home of the 22-year-old medical student accused of killing one woman and attacking another who had advertised massage services on Craigslist.
In California, more allegations are surfacing against the Sunday school teacher charged with killing an 8-year old girl. Melissa Huckaby is now accused of kidnapping and drugging another little girl in the same area two months before Sandra Cantu vanished.
She is described as a straight-laced preacher's granddaughter, a member of her high school dance team who never got into trouble. She is passionately devoted to her 5-year-old daughter. She has no serious criminal history, just a couple of petty thefts, and no violent mental illnesses that several of her closest relatives know of, just depression. It leaves those who know her to wonder: If she is responsible, did Huckaby have a sudden psychotic break from a hidden mental illness and go crazy, raping an 8-year-old playmate of her daughter, killing her and throwing away her body in a suitcase?
Phoenix police arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of a man who was operating a state police photo radar unit that was parked on a north Phoenix freeway to catch speeders
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