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A registered sex offender from Cleveland has pleaded not guilty to an alleged attack that prompted a search and the discovery of 11 bodies at his home. Fifty-year-old Anthony Sowell appeared in court Friday and entered not guilty pleas to ...

Authorities on Friday released the name of a fourth victim found last week in or around the home of registered sex offender.

Authorities have identified the first of 11 bodies found at a Cleveland, Ohio, home as a 52-year-old woman who had been missing for about a year.

A rapist living in an Ohio home where several bodies have been found has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder, police said.

A Connecticut judge dismissed murder and rape charges Wednesday against a man who spent two decades in prison before DNA testing showed he could not have committed the crimes.

AP - An ex-soldier convicted of raping and killing an Iraqi teen and murdering her family has been sentenced to life in prison in a case that drew attention to the emotional and psychological strains on soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A former U.S. soldier was convicted on Thursday of raping an Iraqi girl and killing her and her family near Baghdad in 2006 and now faces a possible death sentence.

Sandra Cantu was remembered Thursday as "Tracy's precious angel," but she may well have been everybody's little girl.