FBI figures released Monday show overall violent crime in the United States during 2010 declined 5.5% compared with the previous year. That's slightly more than the 5.3% decline the FBI found in its report for 2009.

Non-violent property crimes also declined, falling 2.8%.

The report, while labeled "preliminary,"

worth more than $35,000

between 4:10 a.m. and 4:44 p.m., someone broke into Albert Franklin Little Jr.'s home on Little Road and took numerous items:

33 rifles, shotguns and handguns, worth about $26,330.

fraudulently collecting donations for an organization,

A federal grand jury has indicted a 60-year-old homeless man on charges that he set off a bomb outside a southern California synagogue in April, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

The blast shattered windows outside the suburban Los Angeles building and launched a chunk of concrete and steel pipe into the roof of a home next door, but caused no injuries.

He would face 45 to 70 years in prison if convicted on those charges, prosecutors said.

Ray is accused of manslaughter in the deaths of three people at his October 2009 "Spiritual Warrior" retreat in the desert. At least 15 others who took part in the ceremony became ill. More than 40 other people were uninjured.

"I am the Alpha and the Omega. I am God,"

The ceremony consisted of eight rounds, with each round lasting 10 to 15 minutes

A Yonkers, New York, woman is suing the New York Yankees for trademark infringement, claiming her uncle created the Yankees top hat logo but never got paid for his work.

According to the complaint, Buday took the logos to Rob Wallace, a design analyst -- who concluded it to be "evident that they are so significantly similar that they could not have been created independently from one another."

Buday explains that her uncle was not aware that the Yankees adopted the logo until he immigrated to America in 1947

Former NBA star Allen Iverson launched an expletive-ridden tirade against police when a car belonging to him was pulled over for a traffic violation last week

Iverson, 35, was a passenger in a grey Lamborghini

it was found to have tags that expired in 2009. Iverson, former MVP for the Philadelphia 76ers, was told his car would be towed.

April Fools' Day prank that left a man glued to a toilet at a Wal-Mart store.

If caught, the jokester who doused the seat with glue at the Elkton Wal-Mart on March 31 could face second-degree assault charges,

they were unable to disconnect the toilet seat from his body, Donnelly said.

A California mother was arrested this week after she was captured on video encouraging her son to pummel another boy, police said.

The woman can be heard yelling "Beat him down. Body slam him," as the two boys swing wildly at each other in the scuffle that leaves one bloody.

She also assures the combatants they have permission to fight in her yard and that she will not call the police.

Five Somali men were sentenced Monday to life plus 80 years in prison for engaging in piracy and related offenses in last year's attack on a U.S. warship in the Indian Ocean, federal officials announced Monday.

following the first time in over 190 years that an American jury has convicted a defendant of piracy,

"Today's sentences should send a clear message to those who attempt to engage in piracy: Armed attacks on U.S.-flagged vessels carry severe consequences in U.S. courts."

"It's been traumatic for all of us," said Jacob Long, who said he saw no warning signs or trouble within the family. "I'm not real sure what to think yet."

Burlington, a town of fewer than 4,000 residents, which is located near the Colorado-Kansas border.

Officers also found two critically wounded children: a 5-year-old girl and a 9-year-old boy, whom authorities identified as siblings of the boy in custody.

Despite the packed crowds and stands full of marijuana, the farmers market operates in a legal gray zone.

"Medical marijuana is not legal in the state of Washington," said state Department of Health spokesman Donn Moyer. A law passed in 1998 allows for what is called the "medical marijuana defense" -- that allows for juries to take into account if someone charged with pot possession was taking the drug for health purposes.

Under the current law, certain health care providers like doctors or nurse practitioner can issue the recommendations for medical marijuana for a variety of ailments including cancer, HIV and anorexia.

Texas lawmakers are weighing a bill that would allow professors and students to carry concealed weapons on college campuses.

"It's about protecting lives of students who are totally vulnerable and defenseless and able to be picked off by a deranged shooter, as was the case in Virginia."

Most recently in Texas, a student fired an assault rifle in September at the University of Texas. He killed himself, but no one else was hurt.

a bill that would strip teachers and other public employees of most of their collective bargaining rights and cut their benefits.

thousands of people came to Madison to protest the bill for a third day

eliminate more than 6,000 teaching jobs in the next fiscal year.

the city that never smokes, or at least the city that highly restricts it.

Nine years after the Big Apple banned smoking in its restaurants, the New York City Council on Wednesday voted to ban smoking in city parks and on city beaches,

The ban prohibits smoking in all 1,700 city parks and on its 14 miles of beaches,