Witnesses began describing the final moments of and futile attempts to save a Connecticut mother and her two daughters inside their burning home, opening the trial Monday for one of the men who authorities claim is responsible for their murders.

Each year, 75,000 witnesses identify criminal suspects. Yet, as the New Jersey Supreme Court has acknowledged in a recent landmark case, there is “a troubling lack of reliability in eyewitness identifications.”

The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency Tuesday for death-row inmate Troy Davis, clearing the way for his execution for the 1989 shooting death of a Savannah, Georgia, police officer.

Police searching the Utah desert in connection with the Susan Powell, who vanished in 2009, find human remains near Topaz Mountain, NBC station KSL reports.

Whale watchers off the coast of Southern California are getting a very close-up look at blue whales, the largest animals on earth. A pod of these creatures has been seen only a few miles off shore, in search of krill, their main food source. NBC’s Miguel Almaguer reports. (Nightly News)

A Congressman introduced an amendment to the TSA funding bill today that would put an end to the “naked” images currently produced by full-body scanners at U.S. airports.

A man accused of strapping a fake bomb around an 18-year-old Australian girl’s neck in an attempt to extort money from her family is scheduled to appear at an extradition hearing Wednesday afternoon, prosecutors said.

A man who opened fire at an Arkansas courthouse Tuesday, injuring one person, was shot and killed by police, according to authorities and CNN affiliate KFSM.

An Arizona judge on Wednesday refused to grant a new trial for self-help guru James Arthur Ray in the deaths of three participants in a 2009 sweat lodge ritual.

The family of an African-American man who died after a group of white teens beat him and one allegedly ran him over with a truck is asking state and federal officials not to seek the death penalty in the case.