Discovery Channel HQ given ‘all clear’

Authorities gave an “all clear” early Thursday after sweeping the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in Silver Spring, Maryland, where police shot and killed a man who was holding three hostages.
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Authorities gave an “all clear” early Thursday after sweeping the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in Silver Spring, Maryland, where police shot and killed a man who was holding three hostages.

T.I. and his wife were arrested after police said they smelled marijuana coming from the couple’s car. The rapper served time last year for attempting to buy machine guns in a grocery store parking lot.

Justice Department civil rights lawyers filed suit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona on Thursday after talks collapsed on a deal to provide federal investigators with requested documents.

Chelsea King and Amber Dubois’s murders by sex offender John Gardner led to a slew of proposed legislation aimed at protecting children. The bills await Gov.

Twelve jurors must decide whether the marriage of a Mexican soap opera actress to a California pizza delivery man was a fact built on love or fiction designed to fool immigration agents.

The judge in the drug trial of Anna Nicole Smith’s boyfriend-lawyer and two doctors raised questions Wednesday about the California law being used to prosecute them.

A man holding hostages at the Discovery Channel was shot by police and an explosive device he was carrying detonated. Suspect James Jay Lee is dead and his three hostages are safe. FULL STORY | LIVE BLOG

The man believed to be holding at least one hostage at the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, has been identified as James Lee, a law enforcement source tells CNN.

Police in Hercules, California, were searching Wednesday for a man whose elderly father was bludgeoned to death — possibly by a suspect in three other homicides in the same area.

The decomposed body of a California doctor was found lodged in her boyfriend’s chimney, several days after she had apparently attempted to get inside his home, police said.

It will be at least two weeks until authorities can determine the cause of death of a Georgia inmate, found dead in prison where she was serving a life sentence for killing her boyfriend and husband with antifreeze, authorities said Wednesday.

A video apparently showing a young woman throwing live puppies into a river has sparked outrage across the Internet.

A federal district court has dismissed a challenge filed by a Tucson police officer against Arizona’s tough new immigration law.

Mexican soap star Fernanda Romero tearfully denied entering a sham marriage, saying she really loved her pizza deliveryman husband. Closing arguments are set today in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

Elias Abuelazam, suspected of stabbing 18 victims in a three-state slashing spree, is set for a pretrial hearing in a Michigan courtroom Tuesday morning.

The daughter of former New York mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was ordered Tuesday to serve one day of community service for her shoplifting arrest in early August.

Eight people died early Tuesday after attackers hurled several Molotov cocktails into a Cancun, Mexico, bar, the state attorney general said.

The judge presiding over the case of Florida murder suspect Casey Anthony warned lawyers Monday to expect long days in her upcoming trial and no more postponements.

Scott Curley, the man accused of killing a sheriff’s deputy in Utah, has been arrested in Kane County, Utah, after a manhunt that lasted days, authorities said Monday morning.

A Mormon bishop was shot and killed in Visalia, California, on Sunday, police said.

Roger Clemens has arrived for arraignment on charges he lied when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs.

American grad student David Gimelfarb vanished a year ago while hiking in Costa Rica. He is one of three visitors who disappeared there last year.

A 45-year-old man allegedly shot two police officers to death in a rural Alaska town Saturday before barricading himself and triggering a standoff, authorities said.

A man suspected in the shooting deaths of five people at a Lake Havasu City, Arizona, residence on Saturday night was found dead early Sunday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police.

The mayor of a city in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas was killed and his 10-year-old daughter was injured on Sunday.