The New Jersey man charged with murder in the slaying of a Roman Catholic priest was being “treated at a local hospital,” the prosecutor said on Sunday.

The Connecticut attorney general called on a Web site to stop selling T-shirts and towels memorializing slain University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard or face legal action.

Residents of the New Jersey town where a priest was found dead in the kitchen of his church’s rectory Friday morning should exercise caution, Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said. Due to the nature of the wounds, the death of the Rev. Ed Hinds, 61, of St. Patrick’s Church “in all likelihood was in fact [...]

Investigators in Georgia are combing through a “tremendous mountain” of garbage at a landfill, searching for clues to the slaying of 7-year-old Somer Thompson, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said Friday.

Some are girlish 22-year-olds; others are women approaching 40. They come from South Carolina’s rural counties and its booming cities. They are loud and muted, lively and vacant, hopeful and desperate.

Semion Mogilevich may be the most powerful man you’ve never heard of. The FBI says Mogilevich, a Russian mobster, has been involved in arms trafficking, prostitution, extortion and murder for hire. He fills the third vacant slot on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.

A 22-year-old woman whose claims that she was abused in a trailer in rural West Virginia in 2007 helped send six people to prison now says she made up the story, her lawyer said Wednesday.

Has Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, been lost to the drug cartels?

The FBI has three openings on its list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. The agency’s assistant director, Kevin Perkins, announced Monday night who filled the first slot: Joe Luis Saenz, an allegedly homicidal member of L.A.’s Cuatro Flats gang. Watch CNN at 8 p.m. over the next two nights to find out who else makes [...]

Howard Unruh, a World War II veteran accused of killing more than a dozen people in a shooting spree in New Jersey 60 years ago, died Monday, authorities said. He was 88.