Five people are in custody and 21 face charges in what California Attorney General Rob Bonta called a "brazen, calculated criminal scheme" that allegedly drained more than $267 million from the state's Medi-Cal program through fraudulent hospice billing, stolen identities, and a web of more than 130...

A neighbor heard two loud thuds, looked outside, and saw Kristin Ramsey standing at the front door of the model home where Iowa real estate agent Ashley Okland lay dying. That witness account, now detailed in newly filed court documents, places the 53-year-old murder suspect at the scene of a 2011 c...

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...

More than thirty years after Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home, an unnamed former Seattle police detective has come forward to claim the investigation into the Nirvana frontman's death was botched, and that the evidence never supported a straightforward suicide ruling. The claims appear...

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...

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...

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, 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 kil...

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...