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Baby Lisa Irwin is still missing after a week since her parents last reported seeing her, and Kansas City police have re-enacted how the abduction could have taken place in the family home.

Just as parents go all out with their children's Halloween costumes, celebrity pooch-owners spend money -- hundreds, if not thousands of dollars -- on making their pets look unique.

A former Miss Iceland who met Boston crime boss James Whitey Bulger and his girl friend in California was paid a $2 million reward for the tip that led to Bulger's arrest in June, the Boston Globe said on Sunday.

Anna Bjornsdottir, a former Miss Iceland 1974, has been publicly named as the tipster who led to arrest of fugitive James Whitey Bulger. She has received a $2 million reward for turning in the notorious gangster.

Dr. Kimberly Quinlan Lindsey is in a Dekalb County jail on $20,000 bond for incidents involving a six-year-old boy

Apple co-founder and long-time CEO Steve Jobs died of a pancreatic tumor and respiratory arrest, according to his death certificate.

Steve Jobs died of a pancreatic tumor and respiratory arrest, according to his death certificate.

Hurricane Jova is set to hit the Mexican resort town of Barra de Navidad by Tuesday morning.

Smokers tend to suffer heart attacks years earlier than non-smokers, suggests a new study from Michigan.

Spanish Canary Island of El Hierro gets warnings after tremors, earthquake.

Two Americans, Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims, both 68, have won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy, the prize committee said on Monday.

When it came time for Cassidy Rumble to choose a college, she had a range of options thanks to great SAT scores, a solid grade point average and a stellar volunteer resume.

Minors in the state of California will no longer be allowed to use tanning beds after Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill on Sunday prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 from using ultraviolet tanning devices.

Today is Columbus Day 2011, and there it is a USPS holiday -- meaning no mail delivery or service and all post offices are closed. The United States Post Office takes 11 holidays each year, when there is no mail delivery or service and all USPS retail brances are closed. Here are the annual USPS holidays:

Slideshow of NASA-themed corn mazes, which honor 50 years of human space flight.

Romanian prosecutors say a suspect has been detained over the killing of former Sacred Heart guard Chauncey Hardy, who died after being attacked in a bar in Romania.

A video clip, which received nearly 160,000 views, of protesters discussing whether U.S. Rep. John Lewis should leave without speaking to a crowd of more than a hundred people on Saturday in Atlanta surfaced over the weekend and received just as much controversy as viewership.

The tipseter who reportedly got $2 million in reward money for handing over information that led to the location of Boston crime boss James Whitey Bulger was apparently a former Miss Iceland, Anna Bjornsdottir. Bjornsdottir had reportedly been living in both Iceland and Santa Monica, where Bulger, 82, was living with his girlfriend, Catherine Greig, 60, according to a report from CBS station WBZ.

Trial against former astronaut who kept camera will take place.

Almost seven days since baby Lisa Irwin went missing from her crib in Kansas City, police have staged what appeared to be an unusual recreation of the kidnapping in an attempt to find more clues towards the whereabouts of the baby.

The chairman of the House oversight committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said Sunday that he could issue subpoenas to the Obama administration as soon as this week over the botched Fast and Furious gun-walking operation.

A man, suspected to be Shareef Allman, who was believed to be responsible for a shooting incident, was shot to death by three deputies on Thursday, when they were on a routine patrol.

The family of Meredith Kercher, a British exchange student who was found brutally murdered in her apartment in Perugia, Italy, is reportedly planning to sue American student Amanda Knox, for £8 million. Kercher's family intends to sue Knox for looking to profit, financially, from a number of media and entertainment-related deals that could pave the way to Knox publishing a book or authorizing a film on her alleged murder charges.

Looks like it’s doomsday season, again! Harold Camping, the head of a Christian broadcast group called Family Radio, returned with a newly-revised date that, according to him, signals the end of the world - Oct. 21.

American student Amanda Knox, cleared last week of the 2007 murder of her roommate, British exchange student Meredith Kercher, was something of a lesbian magnet during her incarceration in Perugia, Italy, according to a report by the Daily Star.

When Paul Friedman met the rag-tag youth camped out near Wall Street to protest inequality in the American economy, he felt he was witnessing the start of a protest movement not seen in America since the 1960s.

Casey Anthony, the young Florida mother acquitted of killing her child, wore a baseball hat and big sunglasses and refused to answer most questions during a video deposition on Saturday in a civil defamation case related to her daughter's 2008 death.

The defense lawyer of Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's doctor, alleged, Thursday, Oct. 6, that a crime scene investigator did shoddy work while she was examining the star's deathbed.

The defense lawyer of Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's doctor, alleged, Thursday, Oct. 6, that a crime scene investigator did shoddy work while she was examining the star's deathbed.