Authorities said that skeletal remains ere ound in an old Studebaker believed to be tied to the 1971 disappearance of Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson, two 17-year-old girls in South Dakota.
Judges in the Hague upheld the 50-year jail sentence of former Liberian President Charles Taylor for aiding murderous rebels in Sierra Leone's civil war in the 1990s. The 65-year-old Taylor had been found guilty by the Special Court for Sierra Leone on April 26, 2012 of 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity including terrorism, murder, rape and use of child soldiers.
The Senate overcame some conservative Republicans' strategy to gut President Obama's healthcare law in exchange for keeping the government running, The Chicago Tribune reported. The Senate cast a rare vote 100-0 to take up legislation to keep the government open past September 30, NBC News reported.
Aaron Alexis, the Navy Yard shooter responsible for killing 12 people last week, lied about a previous arrest and failed to disclose thousands of dollars in debts when he applied for a security clearance in the Navy. Federal investigators had dismissed the omissions, all the while deleting any reference to his use of a gun in the same arrest.
