Colombia's Senate approved legislation Thursday that sets up a framework for peace talks with leftist guerrillas, seeking to end nearly five decades of armed conflict between the rebels and the state.
Thursday was graduation at Herndon High School, but three students who participated in a prank involving baby oil were not part of the festivities despite a Twitter campaign to persuade the Virginia school to let them walk.
The mystery of the so-called Forest Boy, who walked out of the woods near the Berlin city limits nine months ago claiming he had been living in the forest for five years with his father. The boy, known only as Ray from the Netherlands, made the entire story up.
Authorities were forced to use a stun gun on an upstate New York woman who was believed to have been beating her 3-year-old son, according to the New York Daily News. Bath salts may have been behind the woman?s episodic meltdown.
A month after the disastrous initial public offering of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, investment bankers speculate social network site Yammer could be on the block.
Journalist Víctor Manuel Baez Chino has been killed in the Mexican state of Veracruz.
Ponzi schemes leave their victims in financial ruin and their perpetrators, if caught, with lengthy prison terms such as the 110-year sentence given today to Ponzi schemer and former Texas billionaire Allen Stanford. What is a Ponzi scheme?
A mother and father from a Chicago suburb are in police custody after they left their 5-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter bound and blindfolded outside a Wal-Mart in Lawrence, Kan. police said on Thursday.
June 14 marks the celebration of Flag Day in the United States. The annual holiday commemorates the adoption of the flag of the Unites States in 1777. The Second Continental Congress adoped the American continental army after reaching a consensus position in the Committee of the Whole on June 14, 1775.
BART officials are recommending Bay Area commuters find alternate transportation after a fire near the train tracks in West Oakland Thursday morning suspended service between Oakland and San Francisco.
Students from a Japanese middle school who lost their basketball when it was swept away in the 2011 tsunami are miraculously playing with the ball again after it was returned since washing up on an Alaskan shoreline back in March.
World's richest man, Carlos Slim Helu, said lifting the age of retirement, privatizing infrastructure assets and making people over 60 work 10 to 11 hours three times a week could remedy the economic woes of struggling nations.
Some lucky Powerball winner is roaming Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with a winning ticket for the June 13, 2012 $241 million jackpot likely sitting in their pocket right now. Could it be you? The winning numbers from last night's drawing were 7, 10, 14, 33, 57 and a Powerball of 18.
Richard F. Dick Stolz, one of the Central Intelligence Agency's most respected and legendary operatives, died on Saturday at the age of 86.
The manhunt is on for Timothy V. Jorden, a former Army Special Forces surgeon who is believed to be responsible the ECMC shooting that took place in Buffalo, N.Y., on Wednesday, June 13. Jorden, 49, is wanted for allegedly shooting and killing 33-year-old Jackie Wisniewski, a receptionist and one-time lover of the wanted assailant.
An alleged member of the LulzSec hacking group who prosecutors say targeted the Fox and PBS television networks and Sony's film and TV studio has been indicted.
Homeless man Timothy Yost is all smiles after the Bastrop City Council ruled that he is allowed to keep the $77,000 in wet cash and South African coins that he found in a Texas Park.
Multiple news sources are reporting that a 33-year-old woman has been fatally shot at a Buffalo, N.Y., hospital. The gunman, who is still at large, has been identified as ECMC trauma surgeon Dr. Timothy Jorden, Jr., 49, of Lakeview, who is described as a bald, Black male, approximately 6-foot-2 and 250 pounds. Jorden may also be special weapons trained.
The FBI is getting some extra help in trying to catch Morgan Harrington's killer after Metallica frontman James Hetfield volunteered to make a video urging anyone with information on the unknown killer to come forward.
Police in Berlin released the photos of the English-speaking boy who walked out of the woods near the city limits nine months ago claiming he had been living in the forest for five years with his father.
The Mexican drug cartels are notorious for the decapitated bodies they leave along the dusty highways south of the border, but they'd rather keep a low profile about another activity of theirs on U.S. soil -- horse racing.
The personal copy of the United States Constitution owned by George Washington, where he took notes on the manuscript, will be auctioned later this month, auction house Christie's said Wednesday.
Police released audio of the 911 call made by Creflo Dollar's daughter Friday night to report an alleged altercation that led to charges of simple battery and cruelty to children, after the megachurch pastor maintained his innocence before his congregation on Sunday.
Tanzanian officials have arrested a German national for his suspected involvement in a bomb attack in Nairobi last month.
Henry Hill, the reputed mobster from New York City whose life became the basis for the film Goodfellas, died on Tuesday in a Los Angeles hospital.. He was 69.
Middleborough, Mass., appears to be like most quiet small American towns with tree-lined streets and children playing in the park, but it has one major problem according to local residents: Swearing.
Multiple news sources are reporting that one woman has been fatally shot at a Buffalo, N.Y., hospital.
The same college student, Andrew Hales, who is best known for his YouTube channel Losing All Hope Was Freedom has unveiled his latest prank video in his popular web series called Holding Hands With Strangers. The concept of 22-year-old Hales' mission is simple; He walks up to a stranger on campus at Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem, holds the random person's hand and waits for a reaction.
Indiana law enforcement officials worry that he Right to defend against unlawful entry bill could lead to open season on police officers.
Kenny Rogers had one of the best performances at Bonnaroo.
