Cheryll Witz was in the Costco in Tucson, Ariz., shopping for a birthday cake when her cell phone rang. Waiting to speak to her was one of the nation's most notorious serial killers -- the man who five years ago had killed her father.

A former lab technician accused of biting a 3-year-old boy's shoulder to restrain him during a blood test was charged Tuesday with battery.

We have long been concerned about the potential threat to free speech and a free press as communications migrate from old-fashioned telephone lines, TV broadcasts and printing presses to digital networks controlled by unregulated private companies.

Investigators found bullet casings on a charter boat whose four crew members are missing and one of the two men being held in the case had blow gun darts and knives when he was plucked from a life raft near Cuba, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

He helped launch the careers of some of the biggest boy-bands of the 1990s, but a new report by Vanity Fair hints that jailed music impresario Lou Pearlman had other motives for wanting to mentor the young singers.

The family planning authorities in east China's Zhejiang Province have loosened their birth control policies to encourage couples to have their second child earlier in the hope of easing the pressures created by an aging society.

A judge on Monday ordered that a 10-year-old boy accused of deliberately setting a fire that killed five people -- including his mother and younger sister -- be released to the custody of his maternal grandmother.

Losing a loved one is hard, but it's a lot harder to deal with when you don't know why they died or who killed them.

A missing loved one is enough cause for concern, but that may not be the worst part. Some run into more red tape than help, while searching for someone who's vanished.

Nine months into a faked pregnancy and with her family raising questions about her story, Lisa Montgomery was desperate for a baby, authorities allege