A former middle school teacher was sent to prison for six years Tuesday for having sexual encounters with five teenage boys.

As twilight falls over this Tennessee town, Mayor Tony Reames drives up a dusty dirt road to the community’s towering water tank and begins his nightly ritual in front of a rusty metal valve.

They say twins share a strong bond - but the one between Gabriel and Ieuan Jones was unbreakable.

Lesbians in a relationship will both be given the legal status of parents when one gives birth through fertility treatment, it has emerged.

Police in Italy were today picking up vital clues in their hunt for a killer who slashed the throat of a British student murdered on a study year abroad.

Authorities in Texas are asking for the public’s help in identifying a small girl whose body washed ashore this week near Galveston stuffed in a large plastic storage box.

Jodie Holdsworth decided she wanted a lasting memento of the family holiday on a Greek island. So the eight-year-old paid a local stylist to braid her hair.

Passengers on a German train mistook a Halloween reveler dressed up as a gore-covered zombie for a murder victim and called the police.

Oil prices fell nearly 1 percent to below $93 a barrel on Tuesday, fading from their latest record high as investors took profits from a rally driven by a Mexican supply outage and the spiralling dollar.

A recent college graduate was lured to her death after responding to a Craigslist ad for a nanny, police said.