A pistol-packing grandmother in northern Alabama believes intruders will think twice before messing with her again.

A young woman, believed to be from Bosnia, is seen in video picking up puppies and throwing them into a rapidly moving river.

Authorities say a man who was waiting with several friends for a “ghost train” from a North Carolina legend was killed when a real train came down the tracks.

A four-month search for a missing Las Vegas woman has come to an end in the unlikeliest of places: her own home.

A star pupil was knocked out and nearly killed after a school lab technician tricked her into wearing a chloroform-soaked mask. Sayeda Rahman, 17, was persuaded to cover her face after being told there had been an oil spill in the school's chemical storeroom and she needed to protect herself from the fumes.

Woman puts can in a bin. What was she thinking? The woman who stopped to pet a cat on the wall, strokes it and then picks it up by the scruff and deftly dumps it in the wheelie bin.

Authorities Friday were checking fingerprints and clarifying video images showing the theft of a $550,000 gold bar from a museum in Key West, Florida.

Federal agents are seeking to hire Ebonics translators to help interpret wiretapped conversations involving targets of undercover drug investigations.

Police in Eden, New York believe a wardrobe malfunction foiled a would-be bank robber.

Police in the Washington state city of Bremerton say a pit bull reported as a menacing dog was just protecting its owner who had suffered a heart attack and died on a sidewalk while the two were out walking.

Bernard Keith Howell admitted to having sex with the dead body found in his trunk when he was arrested, but claims that he was not the one who killed the victim.

Los Angeles police are looking for a man they say tied up and raped two women from Skid Row in the past two weeks.