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Florida millionaire John Goodman was found guilty Friday after being accused of driving drunk, hitting another vehicle and running it off the road into a canal, where its driver was later found dead in his submerged car.

Under pressure to resign over the investigation into the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, Chief Bill Lee Jr. of the Sanford Police Department announces that he will temporarily step aside.

A 40-year-old mother of two was burned alive in central Nepal after she was accused of being a witch, police said Saturday.

A neighborly dispute over dog poop has turned deadly in the Tacony section of Philadelphia.

A body pulled from a Wisconsin river has been identified as the son of Green Bay Packers' offensive coordinator Joe Philbin, police said Tuesday.

Three transients have been stabbed to death since last month. Some are banding together for protection, and police and missions are helping. Cary Singletary is 6-foot-2, an ex-boxer who once worked nightclub security, alternating coffee and water to stay alert through the small hours. Now, encamped on the streets of downtown Santa Ana, he's the unofficial sentry for what he calls "my people," a group of homeless whose wary existence is now shadowed by a new peril: a serial killer.

Police say a woman burned to death in the elevator of her New York City apartment building after a man ambushed her, sprayed her with liquid and set her afire with a Molotov cocktail.

U.S. rapper Slim Dunkin was Friday shot and killed at an Atlanta music studio, WSB-TV reported, citing both police and the performer's attorney. Atlanta Police Department spokesman Maj. Keith Meadows said Dunkin, whose real name was Mario Hamilton, was shot and killed outside a music studio in the 1000 block of Memorial Drive on Friday night. He was at the studio to shoot a music video.

A police officer was among two people killed Thursday on the Virginia Tech campus, prompting a sweeping search and school-wide lockdown that lasted over four hours.

A 15-year-old boy poured gasoline throughout his home and set it ablaze Wednesday, killing his adoptive father and two brothers, police said. Michael Pilato was charged with second-degree murder and arson, hours after the early morning fire at his two-story home in Webster, a Rochester suburb.