An unemployed drifter who became an Internet sensation in February after he brandished a hatchet to stop an assault has been charged with murder following his arrest in Philadelphia, police said. Caleb “Kai” McGillvary, 24, was detained at a bus station Thursday after a ...

An Australian choreographer alleged Thursday that Michael Jackson sexually abused him for seven years as a child, a claim the late singer’s estate described as “outrageous and sad.” Wade Robson — who testified at Jackson’s infamous 2005 molestation trial that the star never touched ...

The annals of criminal history are writ large with ordinary streets that hide dark secrets, but even so the peculiar horror believed to have been perpetrated by Ariel Castro on Seymour Avenue in the rust-belt city of Cleveland stands out. He stands accused of ...

A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flash point ...

Gunmen opened fire on dozens of people marching in a Mother’s Day neighborhood parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 19, including two children, police said. FBI spokeswoman Mary Beth Romig said federal investigators have no indication that the shooting was an ...

Shorty needed a ride home. She got confused sometimes, the result of some undefined mental condition, and wasn’t always sure where she’d wandered. Her family knew this about Michelle “Shorty” Knight, all 139 cm of her, and that’s why they worried. She got in ...

Year after year, the clock ticked on and the calendar marched forward, carrying the three women further from the real world and pulling them deeper into an isolated nightmare. Now, for the women freed from captivity inside a Cleveland house, the ordeal is not ...

A DNA test has confirmed another dark twist in the story of three women imprisoned in a Cleveland house for about a decade: Ariel Castro, suspected of kidnapping and raping them, is the father of a 6-year-old girl who escaped from the house along ...