Detectives are questioning two people in connection with the the home-invasin slayings of Byrd and Melanie Billings, a a Gulf Coast couple known for adopting special-needs children. The two are linked to a red van that appeared on surveillance cameras.

A series of coordinated attacks against federal police in six Mexican cities Saturday left three officers dead and six wounded in what officials are calling an unprecedented onslaught by drug gangs.

Authorities revealed more disturbing discoveries Friday at an Illinois cemetery where hundreds of burial plots were allegedly dug up and resold, including more emptied graves and the discarded casket of a civil rights icon.

New Mexico authorities have identified seven of 11 slain women whose remains were discovered several months ago in shallow graves in west Albuquerque, but have yet to identify a suspect in their killings, police told CNN on Thursday.

A stolen Statue of Liberty replica has resurfaced in a disturbing video posted on YouTube that shows someone decapitating the blindfolded lady and smashing her head into pieces.

Slain former NFL quarterback Steve McNair may have been struggling to fill a void after retiring from football, former teammate Eddie George told CNN. “You change, and you’re constantly searching for something,” George said.

Former figure skating champion and Olympian Nicole Bobek was released on bond Tuesday after pleading not guilty in a New Jersey court to a drug conspiracy charge, the prosecutor’s office said.

Additional evidence found with a man shot to death by police further links him to the shooting deaths of five people in upstate South Carolina, authorities said on Tuesday.

The pistol found at the scene of the shooting that killed former NFL quarterback Steve McNair and his girlfriend was purchased by the woman two nights before, police said Monday. Both were found dead in the woman’s Nashville condo. McNair was shot multiple times.

The death of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair was a homicide, but the death of a woman whose body was found nearby has not yet been classified, police said Sunday.