A clean-cut Miami teenager has been charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty. Police say Tyler Hayes Weinman, 18, grew up in the same neighborhoods terrorized by the month-long cat-killing spree. Some of the pets were multilated and “posed,” police said

The parents of a California teen who disappeared on her way to school in February have closed the center that was the staging ground for search efforts, citing a lack of volunteers and a shift in direction. A small, dedicated group continues to look for 14-year-old Amber DuBois.

Monday, June 15, 2009

American student Amanda Knox testified Saturday in Italy that a police officer slapped her on the head as she was being grilled about the slaying of her housemate. The blow scared her more than it hurt, Knox said during her second day on the witness stand.

The woman accused of the kidnap, rape and murder of an 8-year-old California girl has yet to enter a plea in three court appearances.

The man charged with killing a security officer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is expected to survive his subsequent shooting by other security officers, the FBI said in a statement released Saturday.

Amanda Knox will take the witness stand Friday in an Italian courtroom to defend herself against charges that she took part in killing her roommate two years ago. The American student from Seattle, Washington, has been on trial since January.

A woman and three children were killed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when a suspected robber fleeing in a car jumped a curb and struck them, police said Thursday.

Richard Strandlof said he survived the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon. He said he survived again when a roadside bomb went off in Iraq killing four fellow Marines. He’d point to his head and tell people he had a metal plate, collateral damage from the explosion.

“Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, who terrorized the country with a series of mail bombs over nearly two decades, is fighting to stop a public auction of his diaries and other personal items, including his famed glasses and hooded jacket. Four of his victims have been awarded million in restitution.