Police said a drifter they’d long suspected abducted and killed 6-year-old Adam Walsh in 1981. Ottis Toole, a pedophile and convicted killer, died in prison in 1996. The case put missing children on the national agenda. The boy’s father, John Walsh, went on to become host of TV’s “America’s Most Wanted.”

Police have arrested a father and son in connection with Friday’s fatal bombing at an Oregon bank, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Attorneys for the mother accused of killing Caylee Anthony will not have access to a site where investigators believe they have found the missing toddler’s remains, a judge ruled Tuesday.

A Georgia judge threw the book at Brian Nichols on Saturday, giving him four consecutive sentences of life without parole for a 2005 shooting rampage that started in an Atlanta courthouse.

A 31-year-old Ecuadorian man who was beaten last Sunday in what New York City authorities say may have been a hate crime has died at a Queens hospital, his brother said Saturday.

A “suspicious” fire devastated the church attended by Alaska Gov. and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Friday night in her hometown of Wasilla, the church’s minister said.

Investigators said Friday that they think remains found near a home where Caylee Anthony lived with her grandparents are those of the missing toddler. But, a spokesman said, police and prosecutors are waiting until DNA and other tests are completed before making a positive identification.

A jury deciding the fate of courthouse killer Brian Nichols said Friday that it was deadlocked for the second time during deliberations.

At least two prison employees are being held hostage at a Texas detention facility by inmates who set fire to a recreation area, a senior law enforcement source said.

Four men in their 60s connected over the Internet and started talking about their reform school days — about beatings, boys who disappeared and the 32 graves marked with white crosses. Then they convinced the state of Florida to investigate.