Strauss-Kahn prosecutors seek to drop charges
The Manhattan district attorney's office filed papers recommending that a judge dismiss some or all of the sexual assault charges against former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
| Hike took Scout leader into killer's path
As a 76-year-old scoutmaster led two young charges on a nature hike, they stopped to identify a tree. The pause, authorities say, put them in the path of a man who emerged with a knife and fatally stabbed the group's leader.
| No sign of missing US woman in Aruba search
Police in Aruba searched a brushy coastal area for seven hours Monday but found no new leads into the case of a Maryland woman who disappeared on the Dutch Caribbean island. | Post-9/11: Is US hiding too much info?
As a staggered nation scrambled after Sept. 11, 2001, to anticipate possible next targets, there was a widespread sanitizing of publicly available information suddenly viewed as tip sheets and road maps for terrorists.
| Feds probe wing walker death at Mich. air show
A Michigan wing walker who fell to his death after trying to grab a helicopter's skid while standing on the fuselage of a small plane had performed the same maneuver successfully a number of times.
| Somali gets life in prison for US yacht hijacking
A Somali man was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for his role in the hijacking of a yacht off the coast of Africa that left all four Americans on board dead, telling a federal judge that he never meant for anyone to get hurt. | Martin Luther King Jr. memorial opens in DC
Martin Luther King Jr. stood 30 feet tall on the National Mall as a memorial to him was unveiled on Monday morning â" the first memorial on the Mall not dedicated to a war, president or white man. | Victim of Ind. fair collapse to be organ donor
The family of a 24-year-old cheerleading coach from Ohio who suffered serious head injuries when a stage at the Indiana State Fair collapsed in high winds earlier this month said she is "no longer with us" and will undergo organ donation surgery Monday.
| Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032524/device/rss/rss.xml |