A judge is leaving it up to a jury to decide whether Oprah Winfrey defamed the former headmistress of her South African girls school.

A Kentucky man high on marijuana and drunk on whiskey put his 5-week-old son in the oven Sunday and left him there overnight, police said.

A Colorado woman detained and released in connection with an international murder plot left home on September 11, her mother says.

Police received dozens of tips after releasing more than 100 photos found in a serial killer’s storage unit.

Police want to ID women and kids in more than 100 photographs found in a serial killer’s storage unit.

A jury deliberated just an hour before sentencing Rodney Alcala to die for killing four women and a child.

The woman who dubbed herself Jihad Jane spent much of her time online, posting messages that said she was “desperate” to help Muslims.

A background check conducted in 2009 on an Ohio State University employee suspected of opening fire Tuesday on his co-workers turned up no criminal record, even though he apparently served five years in prison.

Simmering tension spilled into public this week when Chief Justice John Roberts labeled the political atmosphere at the State of the Union address “very troubling.”

Before he was convicted of murdering four women and a child, Rodney Alcala was a winning bachelor on “The Dating Game.”