15-year-old Ashley had no inkling of what was to come on the day in 2005 when she was in Manhattan Family Court on a minor charge.

For the first time, astronomers have detected a rocky planet in another solar system that has the most basic and essential conditions needed to support extraterrestrial life.

James Heselden, the millionaire owner of Segway Inc., died in an accident when he drove one of the company’s two-wheeled vehicles off a cliff and into a river, West Yorkshire police said today.

Cynthia Galens, has been found guilty of manslaughter in death of her boyfriend, who drank a jug of margaritas laced with antifreeze at their apartment in western New York.

The search continued Thursday for a Houston man who handed his identification card to a fisherman and jumped off a rock pier into the Gulf, authorities and witnesses said.

A Massachusetts woman has been charged with disguising herself as a man so she could rob her own 79-year-old grandmother.

Former Illinois State trooper Matt Mitchell is asking the state to compensate him for injuries from a crash in which he hit and killed two Collinsville sisters at triple-digit speeds.

An alleged phony cop is arrested after pulling over a real officer.

Two days of public hearings got underway in Washington Monday to analyze a U.S. company’s proposal to create genetically engineered salmon — the so-called Frankenfish.

A Kentucky man accused of strangling his wife is poised to claim excessive caffeine from sodas, energy drinks and diet pills left him so mentally unstable he couldn’t have knowingly killed her, his lawyer has notified a court.