A Missouri man pleaded guilty Thursday to a second-degree misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of a child in connection with a highly publicized sex assault case involving a teenage girl, a prosecutor said. Matthew Barnett, 19, was sentenced to two years' probation.

His seven year old daughter, Dylan, had accused him of sexual abuse.

Ohio inmate Dennis McGuire appeared to gasp and convulse for roughly 10 minutes before he finally died Thursday during his execution by lethal injection using a new combination of drugs, reporters who witnessed it said.

Three cops came to the scene and in 70 seconds, they had killed this North Carolina family's son.

The US is deeply concerned about the fact that North Korea is holding US citizens captive.

Seven people were wounded Monday night in a shooting on an Oakland sidewalk, police said. The shooter approached a group and started shooting.

The Ohio attorney general's office could say Monday whether more charges will be filed in connection with a 2012 rape of a 16-year-old girl that made national headlines.

For three years, Ima Matul was held captive and forced to work as a domestic slave, right here in the United States.

Shawnee, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Tornadoes destroyed homes and tossed trees around like toothpicks as powerful storms ripped through Oklahoma and the Midwest on Sunday and Monday.

(CNN) -- With one child dead and the second arrested in her death, a California woman pleaded for a bit of privacy on Mother's Day. Crystal Walters posted a brief message on Facebook on Sunday, the day after sheriff's investigators in Calaveras County announced the arrest of her 12-year-old stepson on a homicide charge in the death of her 8-year-old stepdaughter, Leila Fowler.

As police and the FBI try to piece together how the three women and a 6-year-old girl, who police believe is the daughter of one of the women, remained captive in a house for more than a decade in a densely populated section of Cleveland, the women were released Tuesday from a local hospital and returned to their families.

(CNN) -- Three additional suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing have been taken into custody, Boston police said Wednesday. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been accused of carrying out the attack. Tamerlan died after a shootout with police, and Dzhokhar is in custody. The April 15 attack killed three people and wounded dozens more.