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Man Arrested in Connection with Mississippi Fatal Shootings

Man Arrested in Connection with Mississippi Fatal Shootings

Tunica County Sheriff’s Office(TUNICA, Miss.) — Authorities in Mississippi have arrested a suspect in connection with two fatal shootings that occurred last week along the state’s northern highways.James D. Willie, 28, was originally arrested Tuesday …

Mary Richardson Kennedy’s Body at Center of Family Dispute

Mary Richardson Kennedy’s Body at Center of Family Dispute

Charles Eshelman/FilmMagic(NEW YORK) — A dispute is brewing between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the family of his estranged wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, over where she will be memorialized and laid to rest.Mary Kennedy’s body was found on Wednesday in…

John Edwards’ Fate Now in Hands of Jury

John Edwards’ Fate Now in Hands of Jury

Steve Exum/Getty Images(GREENSBORO, N.C.) — The court of public opinion has had plenty to say about John Edwards but now it’s up to a jury in Greensboro, N.C., to ultimately decide the fate of the former U.S. senator, who is charged with violating cam…

Adam Kaufman Trial: Detectives Handling Case Had Affair

Adam Kaufman Trial: Detectives Handling Case Had Affair

ABC News(MIAMI) — A jury hearing the case of Adam Kaufman, the Florida real estate developer accused of strangling his wife to death in 2007, learned that a detective investigating the case at the hospital and couple’s residence had an affair years pr…

Facebook IPO: Eduardo Saverin Defends Citizenship Move

Facebook IPO: Eduardo Saverin Defends Citizenship Move

Jim Spellman/WireImage(NEW YORK) — Eduardo Saverin, a co-founder of Facebook and soon-to-be IPO multi-billionaire, defended relinquishing his U.S. citizenship, which led lawmakers to announce the Ex-Patriot Act Thursday morning, saying he “will …

McCain: Will New F-22 Fighter Limits Affect Missions Abroad?

McCain: Will New F-22 Fighter Limits Affect Missions Abroad?

Mark Wilson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — A day after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced strict flight restrictions for America’s most expensive fighter jet, the F-22 Raptor, over safety concerns about the plane’s oxygen system, Sen. Jo…

After Mississippi Killings, Man Questioned Following Apparent Fake-Cop Highway Stops

After Mississippi Killings, Man Questioned Following Apparent Fake-Cop Highway Stops

Thinkstock/Getty Images(HUMPHREYS COUNTY, Miss.) — Authorities are questioning a man over suspicious highway stops in central Mississippi after two fatal shootings last week that apparently occurred during phony police stops in the northern part of th…

Kennedy Curse: A Political Family’s Troubled Life

Kennedy Curse: A Political Family’s Troubled Life

Charles Eshelman/FilmMagic(NEW YORK) — The death of Mary Richardson Kennedy is another sad event in the long arc of the Kennedy family’s story. The estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. died of an apparent suicide on Wednesday, sources confirmed to …

New Documents Detail Witness Accounts, Police Reports of Trayvon Martin Shooting

New Documents Detail Witness Accounts, Police Reports of Trayvon Martin Shooting

George Zimmerman is shown with lacerations to his face and the back of his head on Feb 27, 2012. (Florida State District Attorney’s Office)(SANFORD, Fla.) — Two police reports written the night that George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin said that Zimme…

200-Year-Old Shipwreck Discovered in Gulf of Mexico

200-Year-Old Shipwreck Discovered in Gulf of Mexico

NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program(NEW YORK) — Scientists have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. They made the find during an expedition led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Bureau of Oce…

Yankees Fan Sonia Sotomayor Addresses Graduates at Yankee Stadium

Yankees Fan Sonia Sotomayor Addresses Graduates at Yankee Stadium

Jose CABEZAS/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had three opening words as she addressed the graduates of New York University on Wednesday who were holding their ceremony at Yankee Stadium.“This is a-w-e-some,” sh…

Trayvon Martin Had Drugs in System, Autopsy Found

Trayvon Martin Had Drugs in System, Autopsy Found

Trayvon Martin, 17, was fatally shot by neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman. (ABC News)(SANFORD, Fla.) — Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer, had the drug THC in his system the night of his …

Justice Breyer Is Robbed Again

Justice Breyer Is Robbed Again

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has been robbed again. This time a housekeeper discovered that his Georgetown home had been burglarized while no one was home on May 4. The D.C. police is curr…

John Edwards Was a ‘Bad Husband,’ Not a Criminal, Lawyer Argues

John Edwards Was a ‘Bad Husband,’ Not a Criminal, Lawyer Argues

Sara D. Davis/Getty Images(GREENSBORO, N.C.) — John Edwards was a bad husband who cheated on his wife while she died of cancer, but he never broke the law, his lawyer said in closing arguments Thursday. The prosecution said Edwards was more than a bad…

MLK Black Face Causes Stir At School

MLK Black Face Causes Stir At School

KRDO/ABC News(DENVER) — A second grader was removed from school by his parents after the principal objected to him showing up in black face to do a presentation on the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.Sean King had a vision for his proje…

American Terrorist’s Mom Wants Him Back Home

American Terrorist’s Mom Wants Him Back Home

FBI(WASHINGTON) — An Alabama mother whose son joined an al Qaeda group in Africa said she can’t turn her back on her boy even though he advocates attacking America and hasn’t been in direct contact with her in years. “If I could touch him for five min…

Mary Richardson Kennedy’s Death Attributed to Hanging

Mary Richardson Kennedy’s Death Attributed to Hanging

Charles Eshelman/FilmMagic(NEW YORK) — Mary Richardson Kennedy, the wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., died of asphyxiation by hanging, according to New York’s Westchester County Medical Examiner’s office. Mary Richardson Kennedy’s body was found Wednesda…

Historic Mining Town Forced to Evacuate as Arizona Wildfires Rage On

Historic Mining Town Forced to Evacuate as Arizona Wildfires Rage On

Hemera Technologies/Thinkstock(MAYER, Ariz.) — Firefighters in Arizona are battling a growing problem, as high winds overnight caused a handful of wildfires to nearly triple in size.“The next three days are critical in fire weather, as far as th…

More Minorities than Whites Having Babies in the US

More Minorities than Whites Having Babies in the US

Comstock Images/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — For the first time since it began keeping records, the Census Bureau reported on Thursday that more babies are being born collectively to Hispanics, blacks, Asians and those of mixed races than to white familie…

Study Questions Execution of Possibly-Innocent Texas Man

Study Questions Execution of Possibly-Innocent Texas Man

Carlos Hernandez (L), and Carlos De Luna (R). (Corpus Christi Police Department)(NEW YORK) — A brutal murder, two similar-looking suspects, and a death sentence.  For Jim Liebman, these three ingredients became the catalyst for exposing one of th…

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