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A judge is set to decide whether there is enough evidence to put singer D4vd on trial in the killing and dismemberment of a 14-year-old girl that authorities said had threatened to expose their relationship.

The slow-moving storm is expected to unleash heavy rain on coastal areas of northern Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana as it pushes west toward Texas.

Joseph and Phoenix Henrichsen were charged with kidnapping a federal employee. “I’ve taken two fed biologists hostage,” the father is accused of saying in a voicemail.

A Florida youth pastor is facing DUI and vehicular homicide charges in connection with his 8-year-old daughter’s death after police say he crashed his car into a concrete pole while driving over 100 mph.

Five people have died on a river in Ohio after several of them went into the water to help another person who was struggling to swim, authorities said Monday.

Patrick Orville Dearth, 34, was living in Fairbanks, Alaska, when he vanished in 1993.

Autopsy reports rarely come with barbed comments.

CONCORD, N.H. — Lawyers for Pamela Smart, who’s serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student in 1990, hope that a New Hampshire judge on Monday will allow her latest petition for a new trial to move forward.

HAYWARD, Wis. — Three new women’s world records have been set at the Lumberjack World Championships competition held in a small Wisconsin community, full of high-powered sawing, chopping, log-rolling, speed climbing and cheers of “Yo-Ho!” This year, 66 men and 40 women attended the three-day competition in Hayward that ended Saturday.

A viral video captured the confrontation during a ticketing dispute, leaving the family fearing detainment upon their return from Canada.