A campus police officer at the University of South Alabama fatally shot a naked freshman who authorities said repeatedly rushed the officer in a threatening manner. At 1: 23 a.m. Saturday, an officer responded to a banging noise on the window of the police station.......

A rare form of fungal meningitis has killed seven people and sickened 91 across nine states.
Authorities in Colorado found the back pack and water bottle of missing 10-year-old girl Jessica Ridgeway.
A North Carolina mother was arrested after she gave her 11-year-old daughter a small heart-shaped tattoo near her shoulder, authorities said. Odessa Clay, 30, of Greensboro, N.C., faces one count of tattooing a person under age 18. It is illegal to tattoo a minor in...
Sarah Jones, a former high school English teacher who moonlighted as a Cincinnati Ben-Gal, will accept a plea deal on charges she had sex with an underage student.
Police in Texas arrested a man who allegedly lured a teenage girl into his home under the pretense he knew black magic and then sexually assaulted her. Mario Munoz-Verudes, 60, was booked into the Harris County Jail on Saturday on rape charges. The alleged sexual...
Google honors the Danish Physicist with Atomic-themed doodle.
Senior Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs slammed Mitt Romney’s “theatrical” presidential debate performance this morning on “This Week” for what he said was the GOP presidential nominee’s lack of detail, calling his performance “dishonest” and saying the only thing Romney would cut from the federal budget is...
The Fox News anchor on his debate showdown with Jon Stewart.
Some travelers are willing to pay someone to make travel plans for them.
There's a new injury going around in political circles these days: it's called political whiplash. Fortunately, there is a cure for this. It involves focusing less on the minute by minute movements and more on the fundamentals. And, at this point, the fundamentals favor Obama.