The doctor convicted in the overdose death of Michael Jackson was sentenced to the maximum four years behind bars Tuesday by a judge who denounced him as a reckless physician whose actions were a “disgrace to the medical profession.”

Health officials say only 1 in 4 Americans with the AIDS virus have the infection under control with medications.

Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter pilots fly over the Rio Grande along the Mexico-U.S. border trying to catch drug smugglers.

American Airlines and its parent company AMR Corp. have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, the company said Tuesday.

Should the man who almost killed President Reagan be set free? On Wednesday, a federal judge will begin a week and half of hearings on whether Hinckley eventually should be released from the mental hospital where he has been a patient since 1982.

Dr. Conrad Murray, who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of pop icon Michael Jackson, will be sentenced Tuesday.

Genetic testing has identified one of the eight victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy who remained nameless for more than three decades, authorities in Chicago announced Tuesday.

A man who allegedly shot his ex-wife and seven other people to death in the deadliest shooting in the history of Orange County, California, will be arraigned Tuesday.

A healthy 32-week old foetus has been aborted by mistake in a tragic mix up at an Australian hospital.

Widespread abuse of India’s food aid programme, which is meant to be a lifeline for the country’s poor, has been uncovered by an exclusive Sky News investigation.