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Police say the suspected shooter offered no resistance when apprehended

A gunman shot dead six people and critically wounded three others on Wednesday at a Southern California hair salon in the coastal town of Seal Beach, an Orange County fire official said.

Leibovitz has opened a 200-piece exhibit inspired by Russian ballet and literature in Moscow's Pushkin Museum.

New Zealand is coping with the effects of a devastating oil spill in the Bay of Plenty that is destroying beaches and wildlife along beaches near the port of Tauranga.

Forced by civil war from his post as governor of Afghanistan's central bank, Mir Najibullah Sadat Sahou was granted political asylum in the United States in 1992 after fighters in his native country seized his home.

A man committed suicide on Monday in an eight-story leap from a parking structure near where Occupy San Diego demonstrators were gathered, but it was unclear if he identified with the protesters, authorities said.

A cardiologist testified on Wednesday that Michael Jackson's physician made major mistakes in giving the singer the anesthetic propofol to help him sleep and the doctor's lawyers made an adjustment in their strategy.

Dr. Alon Steinberg, an expert reviewer for the California Medical Board who reviewed Dr. Conrad Murray's treatment of Michael Jackson, took the stand in Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial Wednesday and detailed numerous ways in which Murray improperly treated Jackson in the time leading up to his death.

Michael Jackson could not have given himself the powerful anesthetic propofol that caused his death in 2009, the doctor who performed the singer's autopsy testified on Tuesday.

As Occupy Boston entered its second week, 141 occupiers were arrested early Tuesday morning, with a video footage released with police seen attacking the peaceful protesters.

Hurricane Jova made landfall along Mexico's western coast early Wednesday with sustained winds of 100 miles per hour, which decreased to 75 miles per hour as the storm moved inland.

A team of scientists and big-foot enthusiasts have apparently found irrefutable evidence that confirms the existence of a Yeti in the Russian Tundra regions.

Self-proclaimed Seattle superhero Phoenix Jones, a vigilante crime fighter, is due in court on Thursday to face charges that he assaulted a group of people with pepper spray outside a nightclub.

Joseph Son, the actor who played Dr. Evil's knuckle-cracking sidekick Random Task in the 1997 comedy Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, is suspected of killing his cellmate at Wasco State Prison in California, prison officials announced Tuesday.

An Iranian actress has been sentenced to 90 lashes and a year in jail for starring in an Australian movie with a shaved head -- and no head-covering.

A San Francisco Giants fan who was badly beaten at Dodger Stadium on Opening Day in an attack that touched off a furor in Los Angeles was released from a hospital on Tuesday, doctors said.

It looks like Charlie Sheen is actually winning for once as the most popular Halloween costume idea for 2011 according to web trends from Yahoo's search data.

The Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to consider the rights of same-sex parents in a setback for two gay men who wanted both of their names listed on their adopted son's birth certificate.

John Granat plotted with his three friends for months before the Illinois teens brutally beat his parents to death with baseball bats, authorities said Tuesday. Using the code word concert, Granat promised his friends cash in exchange for the brutal beating and stabbing of Granat Sr., 44, and Maria Granat, 42.

The death machine used by the late Dr. Jack Kevorkian in assisted suicides will be among the items up for auction in an estate sale in late October, according to the sale's coordinator.

Police drained a well the day after demanding interview footage from local TV stations

A white supremacist Oregon couple already suspected of killing three people was being investigated in the shooting death of a fourth person, police said on Monday.

Tahrir Square in Cairo, Green Square in Tripoli, Syntagma Square in Athens and now Zuccotti Park in New York -- popular anger against entrenching power elites is spreading around the world.

Defense attorney Ed Chernoff is interviewing Los Angeles police detective Scott Smith about the investigation at Michael Jackson's house after MJ's death. Just before Judge Michael Pastor called for the morning break, Chernoff questioned Smith about how the house was left open, meaning anyone could have gone in and disturbed potential evidence.

The oil spill in New Zealand has now become the nation's worst maritime environmental disaster -- and things are getting worse instead of better.

Sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, Oct. 11 marks the 24th annual National Coming Out Day (NCOD) in celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pride within the community.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a case from a gay couple who tried to get listed as the fathers of their adopted son on his Louisiana birth certificate.

Steve Jobs died last week of a pancreatic tumor and respiratory arrest, according to his death certificate, and the Apple co-founder and long-time CEO will be remembered by the company in a memorial service on October 19, according to a report.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, which challenged a ruling that gave convicted cop killer and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal a new sentencing hearing.