A Pennsylvania police officer was killed in a shootout with a man who had stormed a hospital intensive care unit, took hostages and began shooting hospital staff.
A Polish woman who falsely claimed to be Madeleine McCann was arrested in the UK for allegedly stalking and harassing McCann's parents.
Five men are under arrest, accused of involvement in a murder-for-hire plot that led to the death of a San Bernardino woman gunned down outside a restaurant.
A Texas man known as the "Desert Serial Killer" is set to be executed March 13 by lethal injection despite his insistence that he is innocent and multiple appeals.
