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Murphy was shot to death as she tried to outrun a gunman on the fourth floor of the building she lived in. No arrests have been made in this incident as of Sunday afternoon.

For the 10th anniversary of 9/11, President Barack Obama traveled from New York City to Shanksville, Pa. to the Pentagon in Washington D.C. for a speech to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001 attack.

While those nearby in New York City on the fateful day in Sept. 2001 saw devastation miles away from the World Trade Center, NASA's Frank Culbertson saw 9/11 firsthand from much further away: from space.

Bladder problems seen more often among smokers than nonsmokers may be further motivation for women to quit smoking, a new study suggests.

Legendary singer, songwriter, and guitarist Paul Simon performed “Sound of Silence” at the 10th 9/11 Ground Zero memorial service.

Nearly 100 dancers commemorated the 10th anniversary of 9/11 on Sunday in a performance in front of Lincoln Center in New York City to promote peace and offer a moment of silence.

Tayshana Murphy, a promising, young girls basketball star, was shot dead Sunday morning in New York in what appears to be a case of mistaken identity.

Though firefighters on Saturday managed to make progress with a large wildfire in the central part of the state, they still have some concerns over some hotspots that are still smoldering. These hot spots are the reason thousands of residents can't return home at this time.

The United States marked the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on New York, Washington, and Shanksville, Pa. Sunday with memorial services at the World Trade Center (WTC), the Pentagon, and at a field in Pennsylvania -- all three of which are hallowed ground.

The 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack brought all manner of people to the streets of New York City Sunday to mark the opening of National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, where the amplified reflections of people who lost loved ones echoed beneath an overcast grey sky.

Americans on Sunday remembered the horror of September 11, 2001, and the nearly 3,000 people who died in the hijacked plane attacks as authorities worked to ensure the emotional 10th anniversary was peaceful.

For Emily Yates, the worst part of serving in Iraq with the U.S. Army was the loss of control.

After a two-day delay NASA finally launched a pair of satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Saturday on its first mission to study the moon in unprecedented detail.

88 gorgeous ladies are preparing themselves for the grand event on Sept. 12, in which one of them will be declared as the most beautiful women in the Universe. Who will be the lucky one to be crowned?

In Molinere Bay on the West coast of Grenada lies the world's first ever underwater sculpture park, which is home to 65 breathtaking sculptures created by underwater photographer, sculptor and conservationist Jason de Caires Taylor.

The 6.5 ton falling NASA satellite will hit earth’s atmosphere by early October filling a 500-mile-wide range of land in Britain, Europe, northern Canada and southern South America and three oceans with its remains.

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake that rattled Vancouver Island Friday afternoon was followed by dozens of aftershocks, and more is expected.

Tropical Storm Lee dumped heavy rain on an already soggy U.S. northeast on Thursday leading the river to break high-water records set nearly 40 years ago in the aftermath of Hurricane Agnes.

Jordan Towers said he was unpacking a truck during a family move from Truckee, California, to the state capital of Sacramento when he heard the news that a plane had flown into New York's World Trade Center.

A federal prosecutor said on Thursday that estranged husband from southeast Missouri has confessed to his father that he killed his wife. The confession of the husband gave a new twist in the case of a missing Missouri mother of triplets.

Amazingly comprehensive fossils from 2 million years ago were newly discovered in South Africa, and according to new analysis, it makes the best candidate of ancestor of archaic and modern humans.

More than 31 million Americans watched President Barack Obama deliver his agenda for creating jobs in a speech broadcast live on television, ratings data showed on Friday.

The jury selection of the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray started Thursday and is expected to conclude by the end of the month.

Woman tells old man she's a vampire before attacking him.

Had that fallen on drought-stricken Texas the entire state would have gotten about 6 inches of rain, The Weather Channel experts found.

The longshoremen of Longview, Wash., engaged in a labor dispute with grain operator EGT that has turned violent at times, have directed their anger at local media.

Officials in flood-ravaged Pennsylvania said the levees in Wilkes-Barre holding back the Susquehanna were under extreme stress but they are hanging in there.

On the morning of 9/11, rookie fighter pilot Lt. Heather Lucky Penney put her jet on a crash course with United Arlines Flight 93

Much destruction remains