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When a shooter sprayed a movie audience with bullets in a Colorado theater last summer, paramedics not prepared for the extent of the carnage and arrived with too few ambulances, fire officials say in a new report.

A 41-year-old Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others will appear in court Thursday where a judge will decide whether he should remain in custody.

Federal authorities are investigating a potential case of human trafficking at the suburban Washington home of a Saudi diplomat, officials said Wednesday.

Arnold Schwarzenegger talks to CNN's Piers Morgan about the American dream and a new immigration plan.

Leila Fowler's oldest brother says he isn't ready to say goodbye.

Three additional suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing have been taken into custody, Boston police said Wednesday.

Judy Clarke has kept Ted Kaczynski, Eric Rudolph, Jared Loughner and other notorious clients off death row. Her next defendant? Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Police have put a face with the description of a man suspected of kidnapping a Michigan gas station cashier.

A California woman who police say planted two bottles of tainted orange juice at a San Jose Starbucks has been charged with attempted murder, a police spokesman said Tuesday.

During the 90-minute ride of terror, Tamerlan Tsarnaev kept talking.

A dust mask linked to 41-year-old Mississippi man James Everett Dutschke, among other samples, tested positive for ricin, according to an affidavit in support of a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday.

Jurors on Tuesday began deliberations in the murder trial of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell.

Just one of Michael Jackson's brothers and sisters can sit in the courtroom at one time in the family's wrongful death suit against AEG Live, a judge ordered Tuesday.

Four people were stabbed during services at St. Jude Thaddeus Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. KOAT talks to a victim.

Preliminary talks have been under way "for the past few days" to allow Boston bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to resume providing investigators with information about the attacks in exchange for having the death penalty taken off the table, two government sources say.

George Zimmerman, set to stand trial in the 2012 shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin, on Tuesday waived his right to a "stand your ground" pretrial immunity hearing. Zimmerman's attorneys have decided they will try this as a self-defense case.

The nation knows James Everett Dutschke as the man accused of sending ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and two other officials.

Investigators have found traces of a woman's DNA on a fragment of one of the pressure cooker bombs used in the Boston Marathon bombings, law enforcement sources told CNN.

Somebody took Jessica Heeringa from a Michigan gas station Friday night. Police seem certain of that but say they're "grasping at straws" for other evidence that might help them find the 25-year-old cashier.

A Philadelphia woman was indicted this week, accused of abducting a 5-year-old girl from her school by posing as her mother, raping her and leaving her barely clothed and crying at a playground.