Abayte Ahmed and her husband learned of their son’s death in the cruelest manner. A family acquaintance called and told them to click on an Internet site. On the computer screen were photographs of their 20-year-old son, shot through the head thousands of miles away in Somalia.

Liberia’s leader spoke out about the sexual assault of an 8-year-old refugee in Phoenix, Arizona, decrying reports that the parents believe the girl has shamed her family. “This is not a question of shame on the family. It is the question of an assault on a young child,” said President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

Federal agents have apprehended accused child molester Edward Eugene Harper, who was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, an FBI official said Thursday. Harper, 63, is accused of molesting two girls, ages 3 and 8, in his neighborhood in Hernando, Mississippi, more than a decade ago, the FBI said.

With four Phoenix, Arizona, boys ages 9 to 14 charged with sexual assault on an 8-year-old girl, a prosecutor vowed Thursday his office will “seek justice for the young victim in this heartrending situation.”

Nineteen former patients at a Denver, Colorado, hospital have tested positive for hepatitis C, federal prosecutors said Thursday as they announced new charges against a former hospital employee accused of exposing the patients to the virus.

safe found in the home of a slain Florida couple known for adopting special-needs children contained about 0,000, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN late Tuesday. The safe is one of two belonging to Byrd and Melanie Billings of Beulah, Florida. The source said the suspects were unable to get into it.

A man suspected of killing six people in two states — including his wife and her son, brother and father — is believed to have planned the crimes, authorities said Tuesday.

A Jersey City, New Jersey, police officer shot in the line of duty last week died of his injuries Tuesday, a day before his 38th birthday, a spokeswoman for the city’s mayor announced.

Authorities have arrested a 30-year-old Tennessee man in the killings of his wife, her son, father and brother — and a family friend in Tennessee as well as one other person in neighboring Alabama. Jacob Shaffer, of Fayetteville, about 90 miles south of Nashville, was arrested in what police say is one of the worst [...]

Two Baltimore, Maryland, police officers were shot Saturday after a gunman’s domestic dispute led to shootings at two locations, a police spokesman told CNN.