A "Today Show" suicide scare hit the news on Thursday when Pak Chong Mar, a man in his 70s, sliced his wrists with a box cutter in front of Rockefeller Plaza where tourists were lined up for the morning's filming. Police and security officers were forced to tackle the man to stop him from slashing his arms.
Six people were killed when a building being demolished collapsed Wednesday onto an adjacent Salvation Army edifice on 22nd Street and Market in downtown Philadelphia,
Witnesses in the upcoming George Zimmerman murder trial will not be permitted to testify anonymously, judge Debra Nelson ruled on Thursday, less than a week before the start of the highly-scrutinized murder trial.
18-year-old University of Alabama basketball player Devonta Pollard, and six other people were indicted on federal charges they conspired to kidnap 6-year-old Jashayla Hopson, a young girl from an Mississippi elementary school. Prosecutors said that Pollard's mother, Jesse Mae, led a scheme to kidnap the girl to pressure the child's mother in a land dispute, news reports said. Authorities said at one point kidnappers demanded a ransom set at $50,000.
