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Yemen accused a Shiite rebel group Sunday of kidnapping nine foreigners in the country's rugged north.

A Boston jury rendered a guilty verdict in the Clark Rockefeller trial, convicting the German-born man of kidnapping his daughter during a supervised visit last summer. His ex-wife, Sandra Boss, a Harvard-educated executive at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., testified that she believed her husband's stories about his past for much of their 12-year marriage. It was only when she hired a private investigator during their 2007 divorce that she realized he "was not the person he'd said he was," she said.

Investigators were searching Monday for a 3-year-old boy kidnapped by two gunmen who broke into his family's home, tied up his ...

Police are searching for any other alleged victims of a Sunday school teacher accused of raping and killing an 8-year-old girl from Tracy, California. While conceding "there has been no indication this has happened," Tracy Police Sgt. Tony Sheneman said the concern is that the suspect, Melissa Huckaby, is a Sunday school teacher and did have contact with children.

Trading two children for a bird landed three people in jail in Louisiana, authorities say.