Two Iraqi men, who were living in Kentucky, were slapped with long prison sentences this week after being convicted of a series of charges involving a plot to help al Qaeda.

Acapulco, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican authorities are holding five suspects in connection with the alleged rapes of six Spanish tourists in Acapulco, Guerrero state Gov. Angel Aguirre Rivero said Sunday.

Since the tragic deaths of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut on December 14, there have been three more shootings at schools in the U.S.. None of them has received as much publicity, but all underscore the need to get serious about gun control.

An Alabama teen was released on bail Monday, two days after his arrest for allegedly plotting to launch "terrorist attacks" in his high school.

A representative of the National Rifle Association will participate in a meeting this week with Vice President Joe Biden's gun violence task force

A New York City hotel worker has settled a civil lawsuit she filed against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, whom she accused of sexual assault, a New York judge said on Monday.

PARMA- Fire investigators say arson is the cause of Friday's fire at the historic Parma Theater on Ridge Road.

A western Pennsylvania man has been charged with criminal homicide in his wife's 1993 drowning death following a coroner's inquest in which a witness says he saw the man hold the woman under water with a long-handled pool skimmer.

Daughter of wanted Mexican drug lord caught trying to enter San Diego

A Georgia woman accused of conspiring with her boyfriend to kill her husband for his $2 million life insurance.