A mother abducted her eight biological children from a New York foster care agency during an authorized visit, authorities announced Tuesday.

A Fullerton police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of involuntary manslaughter and felony use of excessive force in the beating death of a mentally ill homeless man who died after a police arrest.

A Texas man facing lethal injection for his involvement in the infamous dragging death of a black man 13 years ago has been moved into an isolation room just outside the execution chamber.

Violent crime in the United States declined 6% last year, according to statistics compiled by the FBI and released Monday.

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.