Monthly Archives: May 2013

For nearly a decade, Nancy Ruiz hoped against hope her daughter was still alive.

Today, she celebrates “the best Mother’s Day . . . ever” after a homecoming that – at

Like a recurring nightmare, the return of O.J. Simpson to a Las Vegas courtroom come Monday will remind Americans of a tragedy that became a national obsession and in the process changed the

Gov. Jerry Brown pushed a novel approach through the Legislature two years ago to dramatically reduce California’s prison population in response to a federal court order.

Under the

There’s Boston Strong. And there’s Mom Strong, too, as embodied in the actions of Detective Kathleen Donohue during the investigation following the Boston Marathon bombings.

Of

Crews in eastern Kansas used boats and sonar equipment Saturday as the search continued for an 18-month-old girl presumed dead after the bodies of her mother and two men were found at a farm home

A standoff with an armed man who police said took multiple hostages entered its second day Saturday as authorities worked to negotiate his surrender and his captives’ release.

The man,

Olympic gold medal-winning sailor Andrew “Bart” Simpson’s death during an America’s Cup training run on San Francisco Bay last week was the latest and most glaring setback

The search for a treasure hunter who found sunken gold and then stiffed his partners by vanishing with the loot could be coming to a highway near you.

The U.S. Marshals Service began using

A judge has ruled that a nun and two other nuclear protesters must remain in jail until they are sentenced in September for breaking into the Y-12 National Security Complex in

Nursing women at a major Army headquarters in South Carolina don’t have to hide in a rest room if they want to breast-feed their babies or express milk for their young.

Women soldiers