<p>A gang-related melee at a South Carolina prison that ended with seven dead and 17 injured, the deadliest U.S. prison riot in a quarter century, exposed the vulnerability of an understaffed system.</p>A gang-related melee at a South Carolina [...]

A Louisiana man this week had a valuable World Series ticket from New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen’s 1956 perfect game — the only perfect game thrown during a World Series — stolen by a homeless man he had befriended, according to authorities. A[...]

Kathleen Durst's former medical school mentor testified Wednesday that during a conversation in 1981 she told him she lived in fear of her husband, New York real estate tycoon Robert Durst, who she said had a "homicidal side."Kathleen[...]

NN A package bomber who created a wave of terror across the South in the 1980s is scheduled to be executed in Alabama. The execution is set to happen nearly 30 years after Walter Leroy Moody Jr. killed a federal judge with a bomb mailed to his home. [...]

The men spent months plotting to bomb an apartment building housing Somali refugees and a mosque in Garden City, Kan., prosecutors said.Patrick Stein, 49, Curtis Allen, 50, and Gavin Wright, 50, were found guilty on charges of conspiring to use a[...]

Rachael Thomas said she gave birth to a boy who wasn't breathing, but a second dead infant was found in a trash binWEST MELBOURNE, Fla. -- A Florida woman who told police she gave birth to a stillborn baby boy has been charged with murder after[...]

The chief accuser at Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial talked about framing a celebrity before going to police with her allegations in 2005, a key defense witness testified Wednesday as the TV star's lawyers began putting on their[...]

An Ohio 17-year-old is accused of murdering his 98-year-old neighbor whose body was found in a closet beneath a pile of clothing and other items, PEOPLE confirms. According to a statement from Wadsworth police, the teen — whose name authorities are[...]

Two sisters in Columbia, South Carolina are accused of literally trying to beat the devil out of a woman. Brittany Jones, 28, and Tiara Jones, 26, kidnapped a 56-year-old woman for an attempted exorcism, according to the police press release[...]

David and Louise Turpin sit in their jail cells at the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside, California, awaiting their next court hearing in a child abuse case that has made international headlines.&nbsp;The couple, whose 13 kids were[...]

For decades, a Vidor father posted billboards about his daughter's murder, angry at the lack of progress in the 1991 case. But little changed -- until now, after a movie inspired by the signs, Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri, was[...]

An Ohio sheriff says he remains confident in the staff investigating the unsolved killings of eight family members nearly two years ago. The anniversary of the April 22, 2016, slayings is Sunday. The case involves seven adults and a teenage boy from [...]

<p>For years, investigators believe, the Turpin kids lived in filth and isolation — with little access to food or hygiene — until their rescue from their family’s home in Perris, California, earlier this year.</p>Allegedly held captive in an[...]

Months after an FBI agent shot and killed a kidnapping victim during a rescue operation, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg took the unusual step Tuesday of publicly pressing U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick on whether he intends to review the[...]

Many prisoners lose Medicaid coverage the moment they are incarcerated, creating a critical gap in coverage that sets inmates up for failure and costs state and local governments billions.She's been in and out of jail since she was 18. Every time[...]