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Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for sexually assaulting an underage follower he married in a "spiritual marriage," will probably continue to lead his church while he is in prison. Jeffs, the head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, also received a 20-year sentence for sexual assault on a 15-year-old girl.

Authorities are still hunting down two brothers and their sister.

No survivors were reported when the missing Antonov An-12 transport plane from Russia was found crashed, the Russian Air Transport authority Rosaviatsia said on Wednesday.

An extremely powerful solar flare, which is the largest in the current solar weather cycle, rocked the Sun on Tuesday, resulting in coronal mass ejection (CME). But as the gigantic bursts of radiation occurred near the western limb of the sun, it is unlikely to wreak any serious havoc on Earth.

Luxe brand, Viva La Juicy has introduced its new global advertising campaign to reflect the feminine, flirty style distinctive to the brand.

Blood drawn from expectant mothers could offer parents an earlier sneak peek at their baby's sex than methods currently used in the U.S., researchers said Tuesday.

A 12-year-old boy, who was not expected to survive after he spent 20 minutes in a Pacific Ocean riptide before he was rescued, is making an amazing recovery in a Portland Hospital.

The sun was rocked by an extremely powerful solar flare on Tuesday, which, according to scientists, was the largest in four years. However, the bursts of radiation were not likely to cause any serious chaos on Earth since they were not aimed at the planet, they added.

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was accused of sexually assaulting two underage girls he claimed as "spiritual" brides. He married the girls when they were 12 and 14 years old.

Missouri River, upper Mississippi River and groundwater are the major sources of nitrate in the Gulf of Mexico, adding to the dead zones formed from BP oil spill in April 2010.

Early Tuesday, the sun unleashed an extremely powerful solar flare, the largest of the current sun weather cycle which began in 2008.

Steven John Carlson, a 43-year-old transient, was arrested on Sunday for the brutal and fatal stabbing of Pleasanton school girl Tina Faelz in 1984.

Scientists aboard the national research vessel, RV Celtic Explorer, have discovered for the first time a smoking deep-sea vent field on the Mid-Atlantic ridge north of Azores.

U.S. regulators are moving quickly with Roche's (ROG.VX) application for targeted melanoma drug vemurafenib, which could receive approval as early as this week, according to a source familiar with the situation.

More than 150 independent record labels were dealt a huge blow on Monday night, when a facility owned by Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation was destroyed in a fire that resulted from the riots that have torn through England in the past three days.

The remarkably well-preserved body of a scuba diver who sank and vanished 17 years ago in Lake Tahoe has been found on an underwater ledge deep in the mountain lake, authorities said on Tuesday.

Oleg Cassini's widow, Marianne Nestor-Cassini, has slapped Conde Nast with a $10 million lawsuit alleging defamation over a September 2010 Vanity Fair piece that examined the intra-familial legal battle over the late designer's estate.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's lawsuit against Dick Clark Productions will go to trial this month, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

A Nigerian-American man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to stowing away on a commercial airline flight from New York to Los Angeles in an incident that revealed an apparent lapse in airport security.

A longtime facilities manager for the E! cable TV network is being held in an Alhambra, California, jail on $2.7 million bail, accused of fatally stabbing his estranged wife last week, while injuring her sister and himself in the attack.

A Kansas City-area Catholic priest was charged Tuesday with several federal counts of producing and possessing child pornography, including allegations that he took explicit photos of a 2-year-old and tried to take some of a 12-year-old girl on Easter Sunday.

More than 300 volunteers took to the streets of London to clean up the remains of vehicles destroyed in riots in the north following three nights of unrest. About 16,000 police will be out patrolling the streets to prevent a fourth night of unrest, which has spread to Manchester, northern England's biggest city. Rioters in Manchester reportedly set fire to a property in Salford, west of the center, and a clothing retail store in the main shopping area, Greater Manchester Police said.

Roughly 62,000 grocery workers in Southern California are ready to vote on giving their unions the go-ahead for a strike if Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons supermarkets do not put an acceptable contract offer on the table by next week, a union spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday.

Jurors will finally have a chance to hear directly from Jeffrey Gundlach when the outspoken "king of bonds" takes the stand, expected as soon as Wednesday, in his high-stakes courtroom battle with his former employer, Trust Company of the West.

A judge on Tuesday dismissed the charges against seven reputed gang members accused of abducting a music producer to demand the return of a supposed sex tape featuring former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal.

Warren Jeffs, a polygamist leader, was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of sexual assault charges that he claimed two young girls as his brides. A Texas jury sentenced Jeffs on Tuesday handed down a sentence of life in prison plus 20 years, bringing to an end the trial of the controversial religious leader. Jeffs became leader of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, or FLDS, when his father died in 2002.

There is no "heir apparent" in the polygamist Mormon splinter group.

Convicted Ohio serial killer Anthony Sowell, 51, is responsible for the deaths of 11 women and dumping their remains in and around his property. The decomposing bodies of the victims were discovered by police after they came to his house to arrest him for rape and assault.

Mark Duggan, the 29-year-old man whose death sparked London's riots, did not shoot police officers before he was killed, the Independent Police Complaints Commission said Tuesday. The IPCC said a CO19 firearms officer shot him twice and that the bullet lodged in a police radio was "consistent with being fired from a police gun."