A 17-year-old Georgia JROTC student was fatally shot in his home last Friday by a law enforcement officer who mistook his Nintendo video game controller for a weapon, according to a lawyer for the boy's family.
When Deisy Garcia was threatened by her husband, she filed a report with her local police precinct. Then she and her children were murdered–and critics believe they'd still be alive if police had translated her report, which she wrote in Spanish.
This strange and savage American winter has produced many oddities, and the appearance of Snowy Owls from the Arctic Circle has been the only delight in a season of ice and gloom. And then a Washington DC bus struck a beloved white owl a block away from the White House Rose Garden.
A photojournalist was at the right place at the right time to capture the worst possible outcome for a woman standing on the beach during a thunderstorm.
A North Carolina family says their teenage son was shot and killed "in cold blood" by local police despite having already been restrained and tased following a schizophrenic episode.
A teenage girl from Colorado Springs was shot and killed by her stepfather early this morning after being mistaken for a home invader.
A Chinese businessmen had just completed the purchase of a French vineyard when his helicopter crashed while touring it.
A copywriter collapsed and died over the weekend shortly after tweeting about working for over 30 hours straight.
A year ago today, a gunman took the lives of 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School, including 20 children. Today, the town of Newtown, Connecticut is holding a day of private remembrance, the most public event being the ringing of church bells across the state to mark the lives taken.
A mother is speaking out about one school's zero tolerance policy against asthma inhalers which she says claimed the life of her 12-year-old son.
A campus police officer has been placed on paid administrative leave after reportedly killing an unarmed college student during an off-campus traffic stop.
A Florida woman inadvertently killed her boyfriend when she "playfully" shot him with a gun she wasn't aware had been loaded.
A police helicopter crashed into a crowded pub in Glasgow late Friday night, killing everyone on board as well as five people inside the establishment. Fourteen other people remain hospitalized with serious injuries.
The woman responsible for causing a car crash that claimed two lives reportedly tweeted "2 drunk 2 care" just a few hours before the fatal accident.
In a devastating loss for one Washington family, 17-year-old twin sisters Janeah and Janesah Goheen of Oak Harbor were killed after a Halloween night crash severely damaged their vehicle. Janeah was killed instantly, but Janesah lived 11 more days, dying Monday afternoon at Harborview Medical Center.
The pregnant widow of the paralyzed Indiana man who chose to end life support has defended his decision to the Indianapolis Star. “I completely understood,” Abbey Bowers said, “but I was devastated because I didn’t have much time with him.”
A father's attempt to teach his son a lesson for taking his truck without permission ended in tragedy Monday after a local police officer shot the teenager dead.
An Indiana man left paralyzed from the shoulders down after a hunting accident chose to be taken off life support Sunday. Timothy "Tim" Bowers, 32, of Decatur was deer hunting Saturday when he fell 16 feet from a tree and suffered a severe spinal injury.
A retired Frito-Lay salesman who went missing on September 2nd was found dead last week inside an overturned car at the bottom of a rural Utah ravine hundreds of miles from his Manhattan, Kansas home.
A teenager who took her own life after her parents banned her from accessing her own Facebook page wrote a suicide note saying she couldn't live without the social networking site.
