The father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church says an order to pay the protesters’ legal costs in a civil claim is nothing less than a “slap in the face.”

A onetime contestant on “The Dating Game” was sentenced to die for murdering four women and a child in southern California.

Jassundra Barnett says what her son did in chorus class was “silly.” But she doesn’t think it is a matter for the police and the criminal courts. And she doesn’t think his teacher should take the fall.

Retired Newark cop Jack Eutsey calls him “No. 6.” If Roderick Royston hadn’t listened to his father and hopped off Big Man’s truck on August 20, 1978, he likely would have been killed along with five of his friends.

Federal agents arrested at least seven members of a self-proclaimed Christian militia group in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio over the weekend, according to the FBI and a leader of another militia organization.

Washington Wizards point guard Gilbert Arenas was spared a jail sentence for violating gun laws in the District of Columbia.

Two men charged in the 1978 disappearance of five teenagers in Newark, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty to five counts of murder Wednesday morning as about 40 family members of the victims looked on.

A Pennsylvania man attempted to resuscitate “a road-killed opossum,” state police say.

Minutes from execution, Hank Skinner won a stay from the Supreme Court. He’s seeking DNA tests his lawyer says could prove his innocence.

Authorities in Connecticut say two would-be robbers tried “phoning in” to pull off a bank heist. It didn’t work.