A search will continue Thursday in the Black Hills of South Dakota for a Nebraska family that has been missing since March 20.
Nebraska family missing nearly two weeks
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Cars searched for clues to missing California girl
Police in the Northern California town of Tracy are pursuing hundreds of possible leads in the disappearance of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, a police spokesman said Wednesday. Police have received 477 tips since she disappeared Friday, 100 of them on Tuesday alone, Lt. Jeremy Watney of the Tracy Police Department told reporters.
California man kills five family members, himself
Police are investigating whether or what family issues might have prompted a California man to shoot six of his family members — killing five — before committing suicide. His wife was critically wounded.
India’s Dynastic Feud: A Gandhi Who Hates Muslims
The spectacle in India is riveting: virulent anti-Muslim diatribes spouted by a pedigreed and ambitious young Hindu politician who shares the surname of the world’s foremost apostle of non-violence and who is descended from the Prime Minister who founded modern India as a secular state to serve the country’s multiplicity of faiths. Since early March, Varun Gandhi, 29, has been the scandal of India’s political class after he called for, among many things, the hands of Muslims to be cut off if they are raised against Hindus, their throats to be slashed, their population to be culled by strict birth control. His words triggered India’s stringent National Security Act, and for days the young Gandhi was a fugitive from the law
Mom’s plea deal includes ‘resurrection clause’
A Maryland woman involved with a group described as a religious cult pleaded guilty in the starvation death of her son, but insisted that the charges be dropped when he is resurrected. The condition was made a part of Ria Ramkissoon’s plea agreement, officials said.
Polish navy training flight crashes
A Polish navy aircraft on a training flight crashed Tuesday on Poland’s northeastern coast, and the four service members aboard are feared dead, navy spokesman Lt. Gregory Lyko told CNN.
Madonna ready to sign adoption papers for girl
Madonna is expected in a Malawi court Monday to sign papers seeking permission allowing her to adopt a second child from the country. The singer, who adopted her son, David Banda, from Malawi in 2006, arrived in the impoverished country Sunday. She was seen walking through the village of Chinkhota with her daughter Lourdes, 12, after touching down at the airport in Lilongwe
‘Italian Fritzl’ and son held in incest case
Police in Italy say they have arrested a grandfather and his son for allegedly sexually abusing the elder man’s daughter for more than a 25 years, in a case likened to Austria’s Josef Fritzl. The 41-year-old son, identified by police only by the pseudonym Giovanni, was arrested February 16; his 64-year-old father was arrested March 16, Turin Police Inspector Iolanda Seri told CNN Saturday. Both men were imprisoned, and were charged with sexual abuse of their daughter and sister, who is now 34 and has been identified by the pseudonym Laura.
Lawyer stabbed 38 times; husband held
Slain attorney Chiquita Tate was such a believer in the legal system that she had a tattoo of Lady Justice on her back, college friend T. J. Crawford recalled
Juarez’ Mayor: Running the Most Dangerous City in the Americas
Jose Reyes Ferriz, mayor of the Mexican border city of Juarez, presides over what may be the western hemisphere’s most dangerous town, certainly the hardest hit by Mexico’s drug-war terror. Since the start of last year, Juarez has seen almost 2,000 drug-related murders