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A massive bomb shattered Norway's main government building in Oslo Friday, killing two people police were quoted as saying by local news agency NTB.

Police investigating the death of a woman found dead at the Spreckels mansion in Coronado are trying to interview anyone who spoke to her in the hours and days before her death to help determine whether she killed herself or met with possible foul play.

A Florida teen bludgeoned his parents to death with a hammer, stashed their bodies in a bedroom, then hosted dozens of people for a house party, police said Monday.

The body of a woman who apparently drowned in a state-run swimming pool in Massachusetts remained in the water unnoticed for two days until passersby finally alerted police, authorities said on Thursday.

They were a family of four — a mom and dad and their two young sons — apparently headed to a relative’s house Sunday morning for a cookout. They were halted at a red light near Winchester, Va., when their vehicle was hit from behind, in a crash that might have been alcohol-related, state police said. The fuel tank of their Jeep Cherokee ruptured and the vehicle burst into flames, according to police.

Nigerian police have uncovered 20 corpses hidden in a tunnel in the southeastern town of Onitsha, and suspect they were victims of armed robbers.

An 11-year-old girl died Friday after falling from a Ferris wheel while on a class trip to an amusement park in New Jersey, police said.

A landslide buried 20 boys and four adults at a Malaysian orphanage Saturday where scores of rescuers were digging by their hands in soil softened by the rains to find the missing, police said.

Police block off the tenth Street garage where a homicide took place at San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif. on Tuesday, May 10, 2011.

Neighbors on a quiet Mid-Wilshire street expressed shock early Sunday over the shooting death of Gabriel Aron Benmeir, who worked for MTV.