On the morning of the 2007 shooting massacre that rocked the country, Virginia Tech officials had begun to lock down administrative buildings, and some even warned their families nearly 90 minutes before the rest of the campus was notified that a gunman was on the loose, a new report says.

Two more people will be charged Friday for allegedly helping a suspected cop killer elude police during an intense manhunt in the Seattle, Washington, area, prosecutors said.

A defense lawyer for Amanda Knox made an impassioned plea to the jury Wednesday as the high-profile case neared its conclusion.

The governor of Washington on Wednesday said her state will no longer accept convicted criminals on parole from Arkansas until the interstate system has been reviewed and she has determined that Arkansas is living up to its responsibilities.

Authorities in Florida are offering a ,000 reward for information on a multimillion dollar lotto winner who has been missing since April.

When Rosa Glover brought her son to a New York playground in 1989, she didn’t know tragedy was about to strike a second time in the same place.

A suspect in the shooting deaths of four police officers was not found in a Seattle home where authorities had tracked him, police said Monday.

A Texas inmate escaped from a prison van near Houston after pulling a gun on two guards who were transporting him between prisons, according to a Texas prison statement Monday.