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Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped at age 14 and held by a Salt Lake City preacher for nine months in 2002 and 2003, has joined ABC News as a paid contributor.

Casey Anthony murder trial has been a long nightmare for her family, the jurors, and those who followed emotionally through the trial, verdict and sentencing. Even after today's sentencing and beyond Anthony's release on July 13th, the never-to-be-known cause of Caylee's death and the sickening memories of the long trial may haunt the nation for a while. For the jurors, there may be lifetime effects, said a psychotherapist.

Casey Anthony's different reactions in the courtroom, laughing, staring, sobbing.

Bear attacks like one in Yellowstone are extremely rare, but when it happens, what should you do to protect yourself?

Judge Belvin Perry has calculated time served and credit for good behavior for Casey Anthony and she will be set free on Wednesday of next week after being sentenced to four years in prison for lying to police.

Three PTA mothers at Diamond Bar's Armstrong Elementary have been arrested and charged with stealing millions from others in a fraudulent investment scheme.

News of the World, the 168 year old British tabloid will end it’s run on Sunday, the company said Thursday.

The royals are finally coming to Los Angeles on Friday for a weekend visit.

Casey Anthony could possibly taste freedom in late July or early August. Will her freedom lead to heaven or hell? The life ahead of Casey Anthony is surrounded by countless speculations.

Finding blockbuster celebrity fame is easy these days, if you are willing to do as Ryan Dunn and Casey Anthony.

Casey Anthony has been sentenced 4 years in prison, lying to investigators.

After a month-long trial Casey Anthony was acquitted for killing her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Caylee Anthony -- a verdict that surprised and shook the entire nation.

Departing or burying the dead people in designer coverings or outfits and with proper make-up seem to be the latest trend driving the fashion industry.

They are stunning, they are hot and they are our top 10 highest paid female models for the year 2011.

IsAnyoneUp.com posts nude pictures of people along with their names and links to their Facebook, MySpace or Twitter page so that you identify the person easily.

Details of a huge Saturn storm with lightning flash rate 10 times more than other storms have been released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

NASA's five space orbiters -- Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour -- have been rocketing since 1981 from the Florida coast into Earth orbit. Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to liftoff on the final mission of the shuttle program, STS-135, a 12-day program to the International Space Station on July 8 at 11:26 am EDT.

The US government on Wednesday has issued warning to all the airlines after receiving intelligence reports that terrorist are considering surgically implanting explosives in the bodies of suicide bombers.

Scientists are prophesying that Hekla, one of Iceland’s most famous volcanoes, might be in a stage to erupt soon.

The sensational murder trial of two-year-old Caylee Anthony concluded Tuesday with a verdict that Casey, Caylee's mother, was 'not guilty'. The following pictures were taken weeks after the death of Caylee, which show Casey go out and party in sexy outfits.

A tsunami warning issued for New Zealand following a magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck in the Pacific Ocean northeast of the country has been canceled, but local officials are still urging caution in the coastal areas.

Jurors of the Casey Anthony trial felt sick to [their] stomachs after they acquitted Casey Anthony.

Casey Anthony, the young mother who faced the death penalty for murdering her 2-year-old child using duct tape and chloroform, was acquitted yesterday despite the fact that she spent the month after her child went missing partying.

A massive sandstorm stormed raged through Phoenix Tuesday night, halting air traffic and initiating coughing fits across the the city. At its climax, visibility declined to zero.

New Zealand civil defense authorities have issued a tsunami warning after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean northeast of the country.

In the Shawshank Redemption, Tim Robbins' character, Andy, dug his way out of prison with a rock hammer. In The Count of Monte Cristo, the main character, Edmond Dantes, escapes prison in the bodybag of his dead friend. And in Chetumal, Mexico, Maria del Mar Arjona tried to smuggle her boyfriend out if jail in her suitcase. But, instead, she ended up arrested herself.

A federal appeals court initiated an order Wednesday blocking the don't ask, don't tell policy in the military today. The 9th U.S. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said that the process of repealing the policy is well underway, and the preponderance of the armed forces are expected to have been trained by mid-summer on new procedures.

A New Zealand tsunami warning has been cancelled but people and small boaters will need to be careful in the water in all parts of the area, officials said.

The final shuttle launch may be hit by a wave of tropical storms, pushing the possibility of delay up to 70 percent.