An Afghan native facing terrorism charges planned to bomb a target in New York on the anniversary of the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001, a federal prosecutor said Friday.

Criminal charges will not be filed against the 18-year-old college freshman who falsely accused five men of raping her in a dormitory bathroom at Hofstra University, an official said Friday.

A stranger crept into Jennifer Schuett’s bedroom when she was 8, raped her in a field by her elementary school, slashed her throat and left her for dead. Doctors doubted she’d ever speak again. Nearly 20 years later, Schuett has regained her voice and is using it to help authorities catch her assailant.

A man accused of screaming racial slurs while beating an Army reservist in front of her daughter outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Georgia has been indicted on felony charges. Troy Dale West Jr., faces assault, battery and other felony charges. He was ordered held without bond.

Police in Irving, Texas, captured a convicted burglar Wednesday who escaped from a medical facility last weekend by rappelling off the building using a string of bedsheets, a department spokeswoman said.

A Florida man admitted to reporters that he killed his wife and five “innocent” children, adding that he wants to be executed “right away” so he can be buried with them. Mesac Damas, 32, said he wanted to take his own life, but did not have the courage “because if you kill yourself, you’re not [...]

An employee of a luxurious New York hotel has been arrested in connection with the slaying of a woman in one of the hotel’s residential condominiums, police say.

Florida authorities have requested federal assistance in locating a man sought for questioning in the deaths of his wife and five children, as he is believed to be in Haiti, officials said Monday.

Philip Garrido believed the black box had special powers and gave it to a friend for safekeeping. “He was a whack job, but he was a whack job who sounded like he had a really good heart,” said the friend, who asked not to be identified. Garrido is charged with kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard in [...]

Authorities found another bone, using ground-penetrating radar to scan the trash-strewn property belonging to kidnapping suspects Phillip and Nancy Garrido. The bone was found after a block of concrete was broken up. Investigators are looking for evidence in two missing girl cases from the late 1980s.