Agents, trooper no-shows at Durst hearing in New Orleans

Published: April 2, 2015 | 2:53pm

Millionaire killer Robert Durst may not be the only one in trouble over his illegal-weapons case. A New Orleans judge postponed Thursday’s hearing after two FBI agents and a state...

Robert Menendez pleads not guilty to corruption charges

Published: April 2, 2015 | 2:38pm

New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez pleaded not guilty to corruption charges Thursday afternoon in front of a federal judge in Newark. He was charged Wednesday with accepting almost $1 million...

Meet the ex-factory worker who is now China’s richest woman

Published: April 2, 2015 | 1:50pm

A former factory worker who was once earning less than $150 a month has been crowned China’s richest woman. Zhou Qunfei, 45, has gone from rags to riches to become...

Prison workers in KKK planned to murder black ex-inmate: officials

Published: April 2, 2015 | 11:44am

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Officials say three current and former employees of Florida’s Department of Corrections were members of the Ku Klux Klan who planned to kill a former inmate who...

Crystal Cathedral megachurch founder is dead at 88

Published: April 2, 2015 | 11:43am

ARTESIA, Calif. — The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, the Southern California televangelist and author who beamed his upbeat messages on faith and redemption to millions from his landmark Crystal Cathedral...

Academic paper on plagiarism pulled because of plagiarism

Published: April 2, 2015 | 11:43am

An academic paper about combating plagiarism has been retracted because large portions of it were plagiarized. Published in the Indian Journal of Dermatology, the 2014 paper titled, “Development of a...

‘Miracle dog’ survives being hit by car, clubbed, abandoned

Published: April 2, 2015 | 11:05am

SPOKANE, Wash. -- The stray dog was hit by a car, clubbed in the head and left for dead in a ditch in Washington state. Days later, the 1-year-old bully breed mix showed up sickly and covered in dirt at a nearby farm.

Students suspended after posting teacher’s mugshot to Instagram

Published: April 2, 2015 | 10:35am

Three Tennessee middle school students were suspended earlier this week after posting their teacher’s mug shot on Instagram, prompting one mom to ask why an adult’s legal troubles put her...

Couple wins $1.5M in lottery — for a second time

Published: April 2, 2015 | 10:30am

LONDON — A couple from northern England has defied the odds — again — by winning a million pounds ($1.5 million) in the lottery for a second time. David and...

Teacher gets axed in groin in experiment gone horribly wrong

Published: April 2, 2015 | 9:54am

A high school physics professor was trying to teach his students a lesson, but ended up learning a hard one himself — taking an ax to his groin in an experiment...