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Supporters of Amanda Knox hugged, cheered and cried at a Seattle hotel on Monday as the 24-year-old former University of Washington student was cleared of murder by an Italian court and ordered freed from prison.

As American student Amanda Knox's court appeal ends, exasperated residents of Perugia wish for a return to the days when the Italian town was known for chocolate, art and history rather a sex and drugs scene made notorious by the murder case.

Amanda Knox and her Italian former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were cleared and freed Monday after appealing a 2009 verdict that originally found them guilty of murdering British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox not guilty of murder: her photos throughout the trials 2008-2011

Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend left prison after four years Monday when an Italian appeals court cleared them of the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Authorities searched for a gunman who opened fire from a speeding car on Monday at an ambulance, a police car and at least two other vehicles along a San Diego freeway, the California Highway Patrol said.

A retired federal judge was appointed mediator on Monday to try to settle the battle for control of the bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers that has pitted Major League Baseball against team owner Frank McCourt.

American exchange student, Amanda Knox, was acquitted of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher and released from an Italian prison in Perugia, following her successful appeal on Monday.

The man who claims to have provided the tip leading police to publicist Ronni Chasen's murderer is suing for $125,000 in reward money he says he's owed.

Sotheby's Hong Kong modern and contemporary south-east Asian paintings 2011 autumn sale totaled $10.6 million; more than double of the pre-estimate value.

Since its launch in 1983, the Annual Alternative Hair Show has succeeded in raising money for better treatments and research into cures for leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and other related cancers of the blood.

The search for Aaron Bassler, accused of two murders, ended when the fugitive was shot seven times and killed in a redwood forest outside Fort Bragg, Calif., Saturday.

Imagines of Saturn's Moon Enceladus captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest it may have a liquid ocean underneath its snowy surface that could make it possible to support alien life.

Emotions erupted in the courtroom where Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were acquitted of murdering Meredith Kercher on Monday.

A union representing New York City bus drivers filed a lawsuit to stop the police department from making drivers leave their routes to transport detained Occupy Wall Street protestors.

Abraham Lopez, 18, a senior at South East high School in South Gate has been charged with the murder of his ex-girl friend Cindy Santana, 17, according to jail records.

David Lavau, 68, who had been reported missing on Sept. 23, was rescued last Thursday by his three adult children from the bottom of a rugged ravine located at Angeles National Forest, approximately 50 miles north of Los Angeles, authorities have confirmed.

Female “Broadway Bound” sea lion recovering after being shot, found on highway.

A California lettuce farmer has recalled almost 2,500 cartons of chopped romaine lettuce because of possible listeria contamination, which is responsible for multi-state outbreak linked with tainted cantaloupes.

What's the true colors of Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's doctor who has been accused of involuntary manslaughter? On Friday, Sept. 30, Murray's former patients and paramedics who tried to help resuscitate Michael Jackson on the day of the singer's death, gave testimony for the doctor.

Four years after her brutal murder, British student Meredith Kercher has been virtually forgotten as the media spotlight shifted to Amanda Knox, the fresh-faced American girl appealing against her conviction for killing her.

An Italian court cleared 24-year-old American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend of the 2007 killing of British student Meredith Kercher and ordered they be freed on Monday after nearly four years in prison for a crime they always denied committing.

American student Amanda Knox has been acquitted by an Italian appeals court of murdering and sexually assaulting her roommate Meredith Kercher.

Now that Amanda Knox (aka foxy knoxy) has been freed and acquitted of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, what's next?

Who killed Meredith Kercher? The verdict in the 2011 Amanda Knox appeal is in - the murder conviction has been overturned.

Amanda Knox has been found innocent of the murder of Meredith Kercher. The verdict was delivered one and a half hours after the promised 8 p.m. deadline, an indication that the jury did not have an easy time with the decision.

The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, was awarded on Monday to Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann jointly for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the other half to Ralph Steinman for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.

Seated in the conference room of his wealth management firm in San Ramon, Calif., Rich Arzaga breaks out a few tools to explain the investment advantages of oil and gas drilling programs. He’s got a fine-point pen and a sketch pad — but alas, no milkshake a la Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood.”

ALMA, the world's most powerful ground-based telescope, officially opened for astronomers on Monday after a decade of planning and construction. The telescope under construction is already flooded with hundreds of project proposals as eager astronomers flock to explore the building blocks of the Universe.