Dr. Conrad Murray’s lawyer suggested Thursday that coroner’s investigator made “substantial mistakes” when she searched Michael Jackson’s bedroom after the pop icon’s death and that she made significant changes in her testimony since the preliminary hearing last January.

Herman Cain upsets GOP front-runner Rick Perry with 37 percent of the vote in Florida’s straw poll. NBC’s Mike Viqueira reports. (Nightly News)

First Read: Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain claimed victory in today’s Florida Straw Poll, receiving more than double the amount of votes of front-runner Rick Perry.

A Florida judge on Friday more than doubled the tab — to more than $217,000 — that Casey Anthony must pay to authorities for the costs of investigating the disappearance of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

A man suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman was shot by his captive, police in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, said Friday after the man’s body was discovered in neighboring Mississippi.

Migrants held by the U.S. Border Patrol claim to have been exposed to sleep deprivation, death threats and psychological abuse such as blaring music with lyrics about migrants dying in the desert.

The defense had said James “Bob” Ward loved his family, while prosecutors contended the millionaire’s demeanor — along with the evidence — proved he murdered his wife.

The searcher who found the body of missing nursing student Michelle Le over the weekend in northern California knows personal loss herself.