The parents of a missing 5-year-old Florida girl pleaded Tuesday for her return, a month after she disappeared.

Parishioners looked on in horror as a gunman walked up to Pastor Fred Winters and started firing during the 8 a.m. service at the First Baptist Church of Maryville, Illinois. Winters was killed, Illinois state police said. The suspect allegedly pulled out a knife and two two church members tackled him.

A former official of a cabinet company that has laid off employees has been arrested on suspicion of embezzling .9 million from the company over seven years.

Basketball great Charles Barkley began serving a three-day sentence in Arizona’s infamous Tent City on Saturday, jailed by the same sheriff whose autobiography he endorsed 12 years ago.

Relatives of missing 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings have given DNA samples, and the mobile home where she lived is no longer off-limits as a crime scene, authorities in Florida said Friday.

Two former New York Police Department detectives were sentenced to life in prison without parole Friday for operating as Mafia hit men while employed by the NYPD.

A former high-ranking NASA official was indicted Friday for allegedly guiding more than .6 million in agency funds to one of his consulting clients.

The defendant in a murder trial in Stockton, California, was shot dead Wednesday after leaping from the witness stand and attacking the judge during a courtroom recess, authorities said.

New York Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler took a hands-on approach to stopping crime Tuesday evening — he tackled an apparent mugger after he heard a woman scream that she had been robbed, according to New York police.

Monday, Feb. 23 2009