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7-year-old in zoo horror

A 7-year-old boy, after scaling the fence at an Australian zoo, served a malevolent menu of more than a dozen animals to its resident crocodile during a gruesome 30-minute rampage, authorities said Friday.

Terror suspects' conviction tossed

A Manhattan federal appeals court Thursday tossed out the terror convictions of a Yemeni cleric and an assistant accused of funneling cash raised at a Brooklyn mosque to Hamas and Al Qaeda groups overseas.

Bodily remains of Steve Fossett found

Some remains of billionaire adventurer Steve Fossett's body have been found in the wreckage of his plane, federal investigators said Thursday.

Illegal immigration declines as economy falters

Illegal immigration, which has sparked political and social turmoil in communities across the nation, is on the wane, according to an independent report released Thursday.

Actress Choi Jin-Sil found dead in apparent suicide

Korean movie star Choi Jin-Sil, known as "The Nation's Actress," was found dead Thursday at her Seoul, South Korea home of an apparent suicide.

Lawyer: O.J. may be 'stupid,' but he's no 'crook'

O.J. Simpson may be "stupid" - but he's not a "crook," the defense lawyer said as the Juice's armed robbery trial wrapped up in Las Vegas Thursday.

He was 13, but he was a man to me

A former teacher says the age of the 13-year-old schoolboy she fled to Mexico with didn't matter. "We didn't see age anymore. ... In my mind he quit being a teenage boy. ... to me, he was a man," Kelsey Peterson said.

Uncle indicted in horrific murder of 12-year-old

A federal grand jury has indicted the uncle of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett, charging him with drugging, sexually assaulting and smothering her with a plastic bag, prosecutors said Wednesday.