Michael David Hicks spent nearly a quarter-century helping NASA understand the physical properties of comets and asteroids. He published more than 80 scientific papers. He contributed to the DART Project and the Deep Space 1 Mission, which flew by a comet in 2001. Then, roughly one year after leavin...

Rex Heuermann stood in Suffolk County Court on Wednesday and admitted to what investigators spent more than a decade trying to prove, that he strangled eight women and dumped their bodies along Long Island's Gilgo Beach. The guilty plea, covering seven counts of murder spanning a 17-year period, bri...

Tampa police deployed a bomb squad unit to an intersection near the city's airport on Wednesday afternoon after a passerby reported a suspicious object that appeared to be a pressure cooker. By 3:15 p.m., authorities said they had identified the item as an empty pressure cooker and declared no threa...

The woman known among her customers as the "Ketamine Queen" will spend 15 years in federal prison for selling the drugs that killed actor Matthew Perry. Jasveen Sangha received the sentence, plus three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to five federal charges connected to the Friend...

Rex Heuermann, the 62-year-old Long Island architect charged in the Gilgo Beach serial killings, is expected to plead guilty to the murders of eight women when he appears in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead on April 8, the Daily Mail reported. The expected plea would include an admission to the ki...

Michael David Hicks spent nearly a quarter-century helping NASA understand the physical properties of comets and asteroids. He published more than 80 scientific papers. He contributed to the DART Project and the Deep Space 1 Mission, which flew by a comet in 2001. Then, roughly one year after leavin...

More than two months after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson, Arizona, home, a new letter sent to TMZ on Monday claims the missing woman "is dead", and demands Bitcoin in exchange for information about where her body is buried. The correspondence landed on the same day Guthrie's dau...

A gunman armed with an automatic rifle was killed Tuesday in a shootout with police outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, Turkish officials said, in an attack that wounded two other assailants and two police officers and drew swift condemnation from Ankara, Jerusalem, and Washington. The firefi...

Christina "Tina" Marie Plante walked out of her home in Star Valley, Arizona, on May 15, 1994, told people she was heading to a nearby horse stable, and never came back. She was 13 years old. This week, the Gila County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Plante has been located alive at 44 years old. Au...

Steven Lepselter, a 54-year-old firefighter and paramedic with Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue, was found unresponsive on the ground inside the Palm Garage at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport around 7 a.m. on Sunday. He was transported to Broward Health Medical Center, where he died. As r...