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A 19-year-old American was in a critical condition Friday after he was allegedly stabbed while he slept by a fellow student following a night of partying in the Italian capital, officials told NBC News.

A 76-year-old U.S. man is in jail after police say he went after his housemate with a chain saw.

A former Rutgers University student sent a message to a friend about wanting to “keep the gays away” and urged her to watch a feed from a webcam that he had trained on a bed where he expected his roommate to have a tryst with another man, according to text messages shown in court on Monday.

An 18-year-old Bowie State University student was fatally stabbed Thursday night by her roommate during a fight in a campus dormitory, Maryland State Police said early Friday.

Amanda Knox arrives at the Perugia court, Italy, Saturday, May 21, 2011. A tearful Amanda Knox said Saturday that being in prison is "very frustrating and mentally exhausting" as the American student convicted of murdering her ...

The jailed American student’s appeal of her conviction for murdering her roommate in Italy could result in her sentence being lengthened from 26 years to life. But her father, Curt Knox, said: “If they really look at the facts, this isn’t that much of a gamble.”