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Authorities are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying a teenage girl who mysteriously turned up in Manhattan two weeks ago, claiming to have no memory of her family, her home — or even her own name. “I just want to know who I am,” the girl says in a statement released by the New York City Administration for Children’s Services
The San Francisco Police Department is reopening a 25-year-old homicide that may be linked to convicted killer Richard Ramirez, known during his 1984-85 spree as the Night Stalker.
Hip-hop artist Lil Wayne pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted criminal possession of a weapon, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said.
A Rwandan accused of “complicity” in the massacre of students at the college he headed during the country’s genocide 15 years ago has been arrested in Italy, where he served as a clergyman, an international police agency said. Officers from the Italian Carabinieri and Interpol’s National Central Bureau in Rome, Italy, arrested Emmanuel Uwayezu — who had been wanted in Rwanda, the international police organization Interpol said Wednesday in a news release.
The mother of a Virginia Tech junior who disappeared Saturday night during a Metallica concert says she helped her daughter choose an outfit for the show that same morning.
Nigeria has set its sights on making multibillion-dollar oil deals with China amid peace moves with militants.
Lawmakers in the west African country — one of the world’s top producers of oil — are crafting new money-making changes for its state oil corporation, as officials negotiate multibillion-dollar oil deals with China.
The girlfriend of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair had grown frustrated with their relationship and was struggling with financial difficulties in the days before she killed him and herself in July. Details of their relationship were revealed in a case summary released by Nashville police Monday.
Two back-to-back suicide bombings killed at least two and wounded 13 others at a university here Tuesday, authorities said.
If not for a lowly leech, Peter Alec Cannon might not be in the heap of trouble he’s in now. In what Australian officials are calling a first in their country — and possibly in the world — police used DNA extracted from a leech that bit Cannon eight years ago to convict him of robbing an elderly woman.