The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into what happened to a mentally ill inmate in North Carolina who was found dead from dehydration after a prison transfer in March, grand jury subpoena records show.
North Korea has told Japan it can only give a preliminary report on the status of its investigation into the fate of Japanese citizens abducted by Pyongyang decades ago and of other missing Japanese, the government spokesman in Tokyo said on Friday.
Police pushed ahead on Sunday with a massive manhunt in three states for a gunman who ambushed two Pennsylvania state troopers two days ago, shooting to death one of them and injuring the other.
In a press release, South Korean President Park Geun Hye likened the acts of the crew of the sunken ferry to murder and called for a thorough investigation on the incident.
An Israeli security guard shot and killed a fellow Israeli man in Jerusalem, beside the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites, Reuters reported. The site was immediately shut to visitors following the shooting.
Lawyers for Ingmar Guandique, the man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy are returning to court, claiming his conviction was "predicated on a lie." The hearing is scheduled Thursday for Guandique, an undocumented El Salvadoran immigrant who was convicted in 2010 for murdering Levy in 2001.
Mississippi Representative Jessica Upshaw was found dead in an apparent suicide on Sunday, authorities said, and reported by Foxnews.com. She appears to have shot herself in the head at the home of former state Rep. Clint Rotenberry in Menderhall, located about 30 miles southeast of Jackson.
An investigation has been launched into the cause of the Western Cape bus accident, killing 24 people, including children when a bus veered off a road and rolled over. The accident happened Friday morning in the town of De Doorns near Cape Town.
The Garland, Texas police department fired officer Patrick Tuter for killing an unarmed suspect, shooting at him 41 times following a car chase last summer. Tuter claims that he feared for his life while pursuing Michael Vincent Allen.
An elderly man, 79, was shot and killed in Brooklyn, possibly by a stray bullet - on Sunday. The man was rushed to a hospital, and was pronounced dead.
A lifeboat from a British-operated cruise ship fell upside down the sea at port in Spain's Canary Islands during a safety drill, killing five crew members and injuring three others Sunday, officials said.
Police have ruled out foul play in the death of performer Jackie Kastrinelis, a cruise ship singer who was found dead in her cabin, ABC reported. Kastrinelis death occurred while on board the Regent Seven Seas Voyager when the ship docked in Australia on Sunday.
