Authorities in Louisiana are searching for a college student who disappeared while bicycling Saturday.

Michaela "Mickey" Shunick, a 22-year-old senior anthropology major at the University of Louisiana, was last seen at about 1:45 a.m. Saturday, when she left a friend's home on Ryan Street in Lafayette. Shunick was cycling to...

A nude woman who calmly walked into two New York businesses this week shocked employees and attracted the gaze of more than one startled shopper.

Temperatures may have only been in the 60s in Saratoga Springs on Tuesday, but that did not stop 49-year-old Barbara Lafleur from stripping down to...

Rodney Alcala can be extradited to New York to face charges in two killings, California's highest court has ruled.

The decision was handed down on Wednesday by the California Supreme Court. In making the decision, the justices rejected claims by the convicted serial killer that such a move would undermine...

A Florida woman has been accused in the brutal sledgehammer assault of her ex-boyfriend.

Angela Rhodes, 52, beat her ex-boyfriend, 48-year-old Thommy Whidden, with a single-handed sledgehammer while they were in the driveway of his Naples residence on Monday, a spokesperson for the Collier County Sheriff's Office told...

A lioness at the Oregon Zoo thought she found herself the perfect meal when a Bend family recently brought a baby zebra to her enclosure.

There was just one problem -- the black and white striped "zebra" was actually a one-year old boy named Jack, who was visiting the zoo...

Three state troopers in western New York have been suspended as part of a State Police investigation into allegations that at least one of the troopers was involved in prostitution.

According to New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico, Titus Taggart, a 41-year-old trooper assigned to Troop T in Buffalo,...

Three state troopers in western New York have been suspended as part of a State Police investigation into allegations that at least one of the troopers was involved in prostitution.

According to New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico, Titus Taggart, a 41-year-old trooper assigned to Troop T in Buffalo,...

ALBION, Pa., -- For the second time in as many months, the Pennsylvania state prison here is in the spotlight for losing a lawsuit brought by a prisoner.

The most recent case involving the State Correctional Institution at Albion was filed by Leonard Jefferson. The 64-year-old inmate, who has...

A Washington state 911 dispatcher has received a written reprimand from his supervisor after handling the emergency call that Josh Powell had killed his sons and set fire to his home.

"The public trust has been shaken and therefore ... formal discipline is necessary and appropriate," Diana Lock, Assistant Director...

Authorities in Canada have arrested a Justin Bieber impersonator for the alleged sexual abuse of a 12-year-old New Jersey girl.

Charges against 34-year-old Lee Moir, of Toronto, Ontario, include luring a child under 16, manufacturing child pornography and extortion.

According to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, Moir initially posed...

A promising lead about the whereabouts of Phoenix Coldon turned out to be a cruel hoax, causing the missing Missouri woman's family additional pain, their entire life savings and their home.

"Unfortunately, we will now be losing our family home," the missing woman's mother, Goldia Coldon, told The Huffington Post....

Authorities in Washington state say they have cracked a cold case from six years ago, charging a husband with killing his wife.

Detectives with the King County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit arrested 34-year-old Martin "David" Pietz Wednesday. The Lynnwood man is charged with second-degree murder in the death of...

A New Mexico divorce lawyer got to experience the opposite side of the courtroom Tuesday, when he was convicted and sentenced for helping a client break into her ex's home.

Raymond Van Arnam, 60, was sentenced by Otero County Magistrate Judge Gene Galassini to spend 30 days in the Otero...

Cody Conner demanded the money from the cash register at a Florida adult novelty shop, but ended up receiving a job application and an earful of advice, according to police.

Conner, 17, is accused of attempting to rob Cupid's Corner in DeBary, a city located about 25 miles northeast of...

Police in Florida recently arrested a man who allegedly dropped his gun during an attempted robbery and then returned to buy it back from the men he tried to rob.

Cedrick Mitchell, 39, of Bradenton, a city located just south of the Tampa Bay area, was arrested early Thursday morning...

ALBION, Pa. -- A former correctional officer from the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution in Albion said he is not surprised by the recent death of Dennis Austin, an inmate who suffered from grossly infected bedsores.

"It's happened before. This is a pattern that's been ongoing," Kevin Barwell, the retired correctional...

Naked corpses on the streets of Montgomery, Ala., might mean the long-feared zombie uprising has begun and we poor humans might as well just prepare for our brains to ripped from our skulls and eaten.

For better or worse, however, these corpses were actually members of the animals rights group...

Do you consider yourself a football expert? Do you eat, sleep and breathe the game? If so, you may want to hook up with a desperate guy in Brooklyn who is offering a willing teacher the opportunity to earn some quick cash ahead of the upcoming Super Bowl game.

"I...

The search for missing Texas teen Sharon West has come to an unfortunate end, according to police.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said Friday that human remains found in October had been positively identified as those of the 14-year-old girl who had been missing for nearly six months. The Jefferson...

Casey Anthony has finally surfaced in the form of a grainy black-and-white video posted to Facebook. It is the first time Anthony has spoken since she was acquitted in the murder of her two-year-old daughter, Caylee.

"It's just a little surreal how much things have changed since July and how...