One of Mexico’s most ruthless cartel enforcers, American-born Edgar Valdez Villarreal, was captured following a shootout with Mexican authorities. He is known as “La Barbie” for his blond, blue-eyed good looks.

Tears rolled from Fernanda Romero’s eyes as the Mexican soap opera actress told jurors that she really loved Kent Ross, the pizza deliveryman she married five years ago.

The daughter of former New York mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was ordered Tuesday to serve one day of community service for her shoplifting arrest in early August.

Paris Hilton was released from a Las Vegas, Nevada, jail Saturday morning after being arrested late the night before on suspicion of cocaine possession, police said Saturday.

A man suspected in the shooting deaths of five people at a Lake Havasu City, Arizona, residence on Saturday night was found dead early Sunday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police.

A Georgia family whose daughter was killed is battling to get her 9-month-old child back from state custody in New York, where her estranged husband left the baby with relatives after her slaying.

A worker was paid for 12 years — earning between 80,000 and 90,000 plus full benefits — without ever showing up for work at a Norfolk, Virginia, agency funded by federal, state and local money, officials say.

Michael Enright, the man suspected of stabbing a cab driver in New York after learning he was a Muslim, has been moved from jail to a psychiatric ward, a city official said.

Police combed rugged terrain south of the Utah-Arizona border Friday for the suspect in Thursday’s fatal shooting of a Utah sheriff’s deputy.

Attorneys general in 17 states have banded together to call on Craigslist, the online classified ad website, to discontinue its adult services section.