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A female principal of a private Christian school in Memphis was found dead in a classroom on Wednesday and a 17-year old male student was taken in custody.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg administration has filed a formal challenge to the 2010 census on Wednesday, alleging it may have overlooked "tens of thousands" of Queens and Brooklyn residents at the least.

Russia?s ?tough? man stumbled upon two ancient artifacts while scuba diving at Taman Bay off the Greek Black Sea in southern Russia on August 10, 2011.

The Statue of Liberty will close for a year for renovations to make its interior safer and more accessible, said officials.

Hundreds of products made illegally out of Orangutan, lion and bear skulls and skins were seized from a property in Sydney, when a raid was carried out by the Australian Environment department on Thursday.

"Dougherty Gang" of Florida was arrested in Colorado on Wednesday after a high-speed car chase and shootout.

This year's most reliable Perseid meteor shower is set to woo sky watchers in the overnight hours of Friday and Saturday this weekend. Glowing streaks will lit up the sky in the early morning hours just before the moon becomes full.

Law graduates from two of the country's biggest schools filed class action suits against their alma maters alleging that the schools were inflating employment and salary statistics to lure students.

For the first time, an exhibition in Berlin has released never-before-seen images of disguised spies from former communist East Germany, showing them wearing wigs and moustaches.

A former manager of Finish Line, an athletic footwear store at the Great Mall, has been accused of secretly videotaping women in the restroom and dressing room on Tuesday.

Who is the most hated person in the United States? It's Casey Anthony, according to a poll. The Florida woman, who was charged with the murder of her two-year-old daughter and later acquitted, is voted as the person most disliked in the nation.

Throughout the years, fashion enthusiasts have endured a lot in the name of style and designer trends.

Fashion was high in the air with women clad in gorgeous gowns and designer heels. However, it is not the Paris Fashion Week or the Milan Fashion Week that we are referring to.

The bankruptcy sale of Crystal Cathedral, the glass-walled Orange County church known for its "Hour of Power" broadcasts, has touched off a bidding war between a Roman Catholic diocese and a local university.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has set a January 28, 2012 deadline for its review of a diabetes drug being developed by Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc, Eli Lilly and Co and Alkermes Inc.

The stock market spent Wednesday tormenting investors, knocking the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 519.83 points and slamming media stocks.

The jury, seven women and five men, deliberated for about seven hours before recommending the death penalty for each of Sowell's dead victims.

Police nabbed the Dougherty Gang, three siblings accused of shooting at police and robbing a Georgia bank, on Wednesday in Colorado. The fugitive siblings were held around 10 a.m. MDT after leading police on a high-speed chase that ended with them crashing their car into a highway barrier.

Scientists for the first time have used gene therapy to successfully destroy cancer tumors in patients with advanced disease -- a goal that has taken 20 years to achieve.

Casey Anthony, the Florida woman who was found not guilty recently of murdering her two year-old daughter, is the most hated person in America, according to a new poll that tracks public perceptions of celebrities.

Two men charged in the Opening Day beating of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodger Stadium pleaded not guilty on Wednesday and were ordered held on $500,000 bail.

Customs agents have seized three gallons of a chemical used to make the date rape drug GHB at Los Angeles International Airport amid a surge in illegal shipments of the intoxicant, authorities said on Wednesday.

Nine-year old boy from Philadelphia, Ryan White, who became the victim of a hit-and-run incident last week in downtown San Francisco, is recovering and is out of danger, a hospital spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The Dougherty siblings, who are accused of shooting at police and robbing a Georgia bank, were captured on Wednesday in Colorado. The three fugitives were caught after they crashed their car into a highway barrier during a chase, Colorado State Patrol say. They were found near Walsenburg, Colo. Wednesday morning.

A U.S. magazine has identified the mystery woman seen kissing singer Elvis Presley in a backstage theater stairwell in an iconic 1956 photograph.

Economic fears are weighing heavily on Americans, with a large majority saying the United States is on the wrong track and nearly half believing the worst is yet to come, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Wednesday.

Jurors in Cleveland, Ohio, said that convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell should be sentenced to death Wednesday. Cuyahoga County Judge Dick Ambrose will read his ruling 9 a.m. Friday and can deny the recommendations and impose a garden-variety life sentence.

21-year-old Ryan Edward Dougherty, 26-year-old Dylan Dougherty Stanley and 29-year-old Lee Grace Dougherty, a.k.a. the "Dougherty Gang," were arrested Wednesday morning after a high-speed chase in Colorado.

Polygamist religious leader Warren Jeffs, 55, has 78 wives and nearly one third of them were 16 or younger when they married him. Jeffs, the leader of a radical polygamist sect of Mormonism known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS) was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison, with no chance of parole until he becomes 100 years old.