Lil’ Wayne was sentenced Monday to a year in prison.

Ben Roethlisberger, the NFL quarterback accused of sexually assaulting a woman Friday at a rural Georgia nightspot, will be interviewed soon by authorities, police said Monday.

Jaycee Dugard, who police say was kidnapped at 11 and held captive for 18 years, speaks out in a new home video, saying she is “doing well.”

A pregnant bartender says she is fighting to keep her job at a gentlemen’s club in New York.

A former Ohio emergency room physcian was convicted Friday of fatally poisoning his wife with cyanide in what prosecutors said was a plan to replace her with his mistress.

Without saying a word, a gunman opened fire at a Metro station near the Pentagon. Two officers were hit and a suspect also was shot.

John Gaeta received a letter of apology this week from the man who shot him point-blank in the neck at a Louisiana mall in 2002 — D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo.

An identity theft case involving a Brooklyn couple has taken a more serious turn, according to federal prosecutors.

Human remains found in a shallow grave are likely those of Chelsea King, 17, says the sheriff in San Diego County, California. She was last seen at school on Friday. A sex offender is under arrest.

A man serving eight years for vehicular homicide because of a fatal crash involving his Toyota Camry is hoping for exoneration amid concerns over unintended acceleration in some of Toyota’s vehicles.