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TOLEDO, Ohio - An inmate who confessed to killing three people with his older brother during a string of murders in the 1980s will be released from prison under a decades-old plea deal, a judge ruled ...

TANJUNG, Indonesia - The Indonesian island of Lombok was shaken by a third big earthquake in little more than a week Thursday as the official death toll from the most powerful of the quakes topped 300...

TAOS, N.M. - A severely disabled Georgia boy who authorities say was kidnapped by his father and marked for an exorcism was found buried at the ramshackle compound in the New Mexico desert that has be...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A dull haze and the faint smell of smoke from distant blazes have blanketed many California cities for two weeks, forcing summer campers to stay inside, obscuring normally bright ...

TUSKEGEE, Ala. - In 1906, when aging, white Confederate veterans of the Civil War and black ex-slaves still lived on the old plantations of the Deep South, two very different celebrations were afoot i...

HALIFAX - A lawyer for a Halifax man who strangled an off-duty police officer argues that his mental illness - brought on by the murder - should be a mitigating factor in deciding his parole eligibili...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Hurricane Prevention Since the dawn of time, man has felt the deadly effects of storms. From legends of the sunken city of Atlantis to the real-world devas...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Or Not In today's world many misconceptions have been perpetuated-becoming modern day "facts"-when, in reality, myths and hearsay have taken over. Sorry to...

MONROE, N.C. - North Carolina authorities arrested a juvenile Wednesday they say robbed a 9-year-old lemonade vendor of $17 at gunpoint, a stickup that prompted an outpouring of sympathy and donations...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A police officer is recovering from injuries suffered during an exchange of gunfire outside a Waffle House in northeastern Florida. Officer William Eierman is in stable condition ...