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The family of a 63-year-old woman who disappeared in Las Vegas earlier this month while visiting a friend says someone posing as the woman has been calling and texting from her phone, demanding payment in Bitcoin.

A narcotics investigator has joined the South Carolina police investigation into the death of “Heroes” and “Nashville” star Hayden Panettiere, her mother told NBC News on Wednesday.

Four Americans are dead following a helicopter crash in a remote area of northern Kenya, the U.S.

Anthony, now 19, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison after a suburban Dallas jury in June rejected his claims of self-defense.

After police arrested a 19-year-old found hiding in a dormitory closet at Virginia State University on Saturday in connection with a shooting on campus, a VSU student who lives in that dorm room was arrested on charges of obstruction and being an accessory.

Tyrone Noling has spent 30 years on death row for the double murder of an elderly Ohio couple that he insists he didn’t commit.

Clancy went to the hospital, called a suicide hotline and was prescribed a cocktail of medications in the months before the killings, court testimony and documents show.

Crews were working to restore power to thousands of Hawaii residents after the outer bands of Lala battered the archipelago, before weakening from a hurricane to a tropical storm.

Thomas Robinson is accused of being a leading member of an alleged trafficking scheme that has led to charges for 13 other people — including his father.

Explosions rocked a Toledo, Ohio, industrial recycling business early Tuesday, killing two workers and sparking a large fire, officials said.