Mustafa Elogbi is by nature a private person. But when he finally arrived home in Oregon after an ordeal at the hands of U.S. security officials that cost him six weeks and thousands of dollars, he chose the spotlight.

A woman has become the first victim of bullets flying across the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, into El Paso, Texas, the Associated Press reported.

An American television producer has been found dead in mysterious circumstances while working in Uganda, his brother-in-law told msnbc.com on Wednesday.

It’s a vicious cycle. Many families in this country cannot afford the skyrocketing cost of higher education without student loans. But many graduates can't find a job to pay off the loans.

A gunman opened fire at a spa in an Atlanta suburb on Tuesday, leaving five people dead in what authorities described as a murder-suicide.

An Ohio woman has been charged with soliciting a hit man to fatally shoot or slit the throat of a random fur-wearer, federal authorities said.

In an effort to reach parishioners too busy to sit through an Ash Wednesday service, some ministers are bringing the ashes to them.

Police say a 5-year-old boy in Ohio brought an unloaded handgun to the day care he attends after finding it in the grass at his apartment complex.

Federal prosecutors have charged the superintendent of a southern West Virginia mine with conspiracy to defraud the federal government.

Chicago’s Cook County Jail, a harsh holding cell stuffed with up to 11,000 prisoners at any given time, is about to become even more crowded, according to The Chicago News Cooperative.