Before evangelist Tony Alamo's arrest on federal sex charges, three girls who lived at his Arkansas compound told an FBI agent that he had sexually abused them, and one said he had threatened to have "someone take care of you" if she talked, according to a newly unsealed FBI affidavit.
A Dallas man was found guilty Thursday of capital murder in the stabbing deaths of his wife and her two young sons.
As of Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, at least 4,209 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
Federal prosecutors say philanthropist Alberto Vilar might flee because he could face the rest of his life in prison.
The leader of a Wisconsin Salvation Army will lose his job if he goes ahead with plans to marry outside the organization.
A Texas Supreme Court justice was fined $29,000 on Thursday after the state ethics commission found that a law firm provided what amounted to an illegal campaign contribution by giving him a $168,000 discount on legal fees.
A second man has died from injuries suffered in an oil refinery explosion and fire in Texas.
Prosecutors dropped all charges Thursday against a woman accused of burning her son in an oven, saying that continuing with the case would harm the boy.
Nine Illinois Secretary of State employees face suspension without pay because they looked up President-elect Barack Obama's street address in state records, officials said Thursday.
A man who spent three decades in prison after being framed by the FBI for a gangland murder was arrested Thursday on illegal gaming charges.
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