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A mentally disabled woman and her child were held in an Ohio apartment for two years, forced to perform manual labor and threatened with dogs and snakes to keep them compliant, federal authorities said Tuesday.

The death of a boy at a North Carolina hotel could have been prevented had police been told that the carbon monoxide that killed him was also to blame for two earlier deaths, a police chief says.

Two California teens who stranded themselves atop a windy, 8,600-foot-high cliff ended up being rescued in what resembled a movie scene, according to authorities.

The FBI -- working on information from an aging reputed mobster -- will continue digging in the waist-high grass of a Detroit-area field in yet another search for the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa.

Bomb plots targeting the New York Stock Exchange and the city's subway were among more than 50 worldwide thwarted by top-secret surveillance programs since 2011, authorities say.

Everything was going fine, until the bill came.

Bruce Schneier says the United States is conducting offensive cyberwar actions around the world.

A shark attacked a teenager Monday afternoon as he swam in waist-deep water at Surfside Beach, along Texas's Gulf coast, local police said.

Although non-traditional therapies can be valuable, sometimes a line is crossed. So how can you tell if your alternative healer is a quack?

President Obama will speak in Berlin one week before the 50th anniversary of the famous speech by President Kennedy.

AEG Live's negotiations with a doctor to treat Michael Jackson were "highly inappropriate," a music industry veteran testified Monday.

The Oxford English Dictionary has finally gotten around to acknowledging that tweeting isn't just for the birds.

With defendant James "Whitey" Bulger sitting less than eight feet away and staring straight ahead, a star government witness in the case against Bulger explained Monday why he turned against the man he long counted among "my partners in crime, my best friends."

A new Florida law prevents cities and counties from requiring businesses to pay employees for sick days.

From Superstorm Sandy and last year's drought to tornadoes, wildfires and a hurricane, the weather and climate disasters of 2012 caused more than $110 billion in damages, making it one of the costliest years on record for weather events, national climate data show.

The FBI is planning to dig in a Detroit-area field for the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, a source with knowledge of the search says.

Here's hoping Yeiner Garizabalo wears more to court Tuesday than he did in a San Francisco subway station in May.