The Southern Poverty Law Center released its annual report “The Year in hate” on Thursday. This year, hate groups are recruiting in ever-increasing numbers among people angry about the election of an African-American president and a tanking economy.

After almost 10 months, the FBI has zeroed in on a suspect in the case of missing Florida pilot Robert Wiles, who may have been kidnapped for ransom.

The chief investment officer of Stanford Financial Group was arrested Thursday and charged with obstruction of justice, the Justice Department said.

Tiffany Sessions was a 20-year-old junior studying economics at the University of Florida in Gainesville when she decided to go out for a run one day in February 1989. She never came back. On the 20th anniversary of her disappearance, her family is trying to raise the profile of this coldest of cold cases.

With the economic downturn, neighborhood watch groups are proving to be a first line of defense in battling property crimes. And as police departments grapple with budget cuts and hiring freezes, neighbors are stepping up and battling back against burglary, theft and vandalism.

Three former Atlanta police officers were sentenced Tuesday to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years for covering up a botched drug raid in which a 92-year-old woman was killed.

Fourteen-year-old Amber Leeanne DuBois left for school more than a week ago with a check in hand, a down payment on a baby lamb she was going to raise. It was a day that she’d been looking forward to for more than a year, her family says. But she never made it to school, and [...]

An 11-year-old boy is facing adult charges in the shooting death of his father’s pregnant girlfriend, authorities said Saturday.

Police are close to making an arrest in the Chandra Levy murder case, one of Washington’s most infamous cold cases, CNN affiliate KGO reported Saturday. Levy, a California native, went missing in April 2001. Her remains were found in May 2002 by a man walking his dog in a remote area of a Washington city [...]

She said she had nothing left to lose when she handed the bank teller the hastily scrawled note. Moments later, she was racing from the bank with ,000 in cash. “It felt powerful, exciting, quick,” the woman told CNN. This scenario is becoming more common. Nationwide, there has been a 25 percent increase in female [...]