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The sham marriage trial of actress Fernanda Romero, which the judge has likened to a soap opera, appeared threatened with a mistrial Friday after a dramatic turn a day earlier.

The mother of a 4-year-old girl, found dead in her Brooklyn home Thursday morning, was charged Friday with second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child, according to police.

Bethany Storro doesn't usually wear sunglasses, but she got a surprise paycheck and bought a pair earlier this week. Those sunglasses, she is convinced, saved her eyesight when a woman threw a cup of acid in her face 20 minutes later.

A Florida judge sentenced Rachel Wade, the 20-year-old woman convicted of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing her romantic rival in a fight last year, to 27 years in prison Friday.

Six job recruiters have been indicted in federal court in what the FBI has called the largest human-trafficking operation ever to result in charges in the United States.

The gunman who held three people hostage at the Discovery Channel headquarters was once convicted of smuggling an illegal immigrant into the country from Mexico.

A shootout between soldiers and suspected drug dealers in northeast Mexico left 25 suspects dead, the military said. Authorities also confiscated a weapons cache and 23 vehicles, two painted to look like military vehicles.

Chris Keith was 12 when his grandparents explained his family didn't die in a wreck. Not only had his dad killed his mother and brother, but before killing himself, he put a.38-caliber to Chris' head and pulled the trigger.

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. Schwarzenegger's signature, but will other states follow?

Federal prison officials fail to properly keep track of thousands of inmates who are granted unescorted furloughs when they are temporarily released, an investigation by the Justice Department's inspector general has concluded.