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Brother of 8-year-old California girl arrested in her stabbing death

Detectives on Saturday arrested the 12-year-old brother of Leila Fowler on a homicide charge in connection with his 8-year-old sister's death, Calaveras County, California, Sheriff Gary Kuntz said.

4 dead bodies found shot in southern Indiana home

Four bodies with gunshot wounds were found in a southern Indiana home late Saturday night, authorities said. Officials are investigating their deaths as a quadruple homicide, Bartholomew County Sheriff Mark Gorbett said.

Gosnell horror fuels fight for abortion laws

The depraved acts Dr. Kermit Gosnell is accused of committing have sparked a new turn in the nationwide battle over abortion laws.

Guatemala's Rios Montt guilty of genocide

Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of the genocide of more than 1,700 indigenous Ixil Mayans during his 1982-83 rule.

Sheriff: Tamerlan Tsarnaev's burial was handled properly

The sheriff of a small Virginia county, where residents and officials alike had expressed dismay over the burial of a Boston bombing suspect within their midst, said Saturday that it appears "all paperwork is in order at this point,"

Flash mobs beware! Legislators address violent incidents

 Illinois legislators weren't thinking about harmless flash mobs, like countless renditions of the Harlem Shake or over-the-top marriage proposals, when crafting new legislation recently.

Turkey blames Syria for bombings in border town

A top Turkish official blamed Syria and its secret police for Saturday's bombings in the southern Turkish town of Reyhanli in which dozens of people were killed and scores were wounded.

Flash mobs beware! Legislators address violent incidents

Illinois legislators weren't thinking about harmless flash mobs, like countless renditions of the Harlem Shake or over-the-top marriage proposals, when crafting new legislation recently.

'No leaks!': Emergency spacewalk to fix ammonia seeping from space station

Two astronauts conducted a spacewalk Saturday to address an ammonia leak in the International Space Station's cooling system, a mission that ended with NASA optimistic the potentially major problem had been fixed.

Flash mobs beware! Legislators address violent incidents

Illinois legislators weren't thinking about harmless flash mobs, like countless renditions of the Harlem Shake or over-the-top marriage proposals, when crafting new legislation recently.

Mystery surrounds freed Cleveland captive

Michelle Knight was rescued this week from more than 10 years in captivity, but her family still doesn't know exactly where she is.

Gorging on Gatsby

The first time Meyer Wolfsheim met Jimmy Gatz, the young man hadn't eaten in days.

Apparently This Matters: Holding a guitar makes you sexy

There's a great song by Todd Snider called "The Ballad of The Kingsmen." In it, he sings, "Marilyn Manson gets a lot of chicks. They're weird chicks. But they're chicks."

Honoring cops, Obama keeps pressure on gun control

Honoring police officers at the White House on Saturday, President Barack Obama made another call on Congress to enact tough restrictions on guns.