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Recordings of an increasingly frantic social worker's 911 calls to police on Sunday are adding more detail to the horrible events leading up to a Washington state man's apparent decision to kill himself and his two young sons.

Joran Van Der Sloot killed 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30, 2010, five years to the day after Holloway's went missing in Aruba. He has been arrested twice, but never charged, in relation to the Alabama teen's disappearance.

Some experts say its Americans responding to their better nature, others say it's smarter policing.

The key witness in the case against the former Penn State assistant football coach says in open court that "I believe Jerry was sexually molesting" a young boy.

Former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky says he's innocent. Authorities have charged him with more than 50 counts involving the alleged sexual abuse of at least 10 boys.

Authorities don't know what the shooter's motive was or if he had any connection to the officer who was killed. They aren't ready yet to release his name. He was not a Virginia Tech student.

Dr. Conrad Murray gave Jackson the powerful anesthetic propofol. The pop star used it to help him sleep and prosecutors showed that Murray's gross negligence contributed to Jackson's June 2009 death.

The news that Jerry Sandusky is being investigated in two more cases of alleged child sex abuse will likely mean that the former Penn State assistant football coach will be remanded to jail before a Dec. 13 hearing about the case, his attorney says.

Authorities in Los Angeles plan to say more later today about why they're reopening the investigation into Woods' death over the weekend of Thanksgiving 1981. She drowned near Catalina Island off Southern California. Wagner was her husband.

Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez is accused of firing shots at the executive mansion. Authorities say one bullet struck a window, but did not penetrate the protective glass.

Law enforcement officials tell several news outlets that Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez had told others of his anger toward President Obama and Washington.

Mike McQueary has been under fire because a grand jury report said he never spoke with police about the alleged 2002 sexual attack on a young boy in a Penn State locker room. He's defended his actions in an email.

In the wake of the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State, policies and procedures for reporting such incidents on college campuses have come under more intense scrutiny.

It took more than a decade, Harrisburg's Patriot-News reports, for authorities to believe that former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was abusing young boys — even though there were many clues. Sandusky says he's innocent.

Dr. Conrad Murray faces up to four years in prison and a likely revocation of his medical license.

An Italian panel has granted Amanda Knox's appeal of her murder conviction, for which the American had been serving a 26-year prison sentence. Knox, who came to Perugia, Italy, as an exchange student, had been found guilty in the November 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

A 19-year-old Emory University student is accused of charging up to $2,500 to take the exam for high school students.

The annual report card of the mayor's administration reflected a city under economic strain. The data shows city services are getting cut back while the city's most vulnerable residents are seeking more aid.

The brother of an Ecuadoran immigrant, who was attacked and stabbed to death by a gang of teenagers in 2008, called for a stronger response from the Department of Justice, which is currently investigating claims that the Suffolk County Police Department failed to properly investigate, report and track potential hate crimes against the Latino community.

The NYPD said it may never know whose gun fired the bullet that killed a 56-year-old bystander in Crown Heights Monday night. Denise Gay was shot while sitting on her stoop with her daughter.