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.”

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.”

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