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A popular fifth-grade teacher fatally shot a masked teenager in self-defense outside his neighbor's house during what appeared to be an attempted late-night burglary, then discovered the teen was his son, state police said.

A Phoenix woman accused of pretending to have cancer to raise money for breast implants was sentenced on Wednesday to one year in jail, local media reported.

A passing motorist found a body in the trunk of a car parked in a ditch in northeast Houston, Texas, The Houston Chronicle reported.

A 57-year-old New Orleans man was accidentally shot and fatally injured by his wife who mistook him for an intruder, police said Monday.

A Connecticut woman confronted an intruder, chased him out her her home and held him down until police arrived.

Hathaway received a probationary sentence and was ordered to undergo psychological treatment after he was convicted of having sex with a dead deer that he found while biking along Stinson Avenue in Superior, Wis., on Oct. 11, 2006.

Her lies to the patients were meant to embarrass the suburban hospital for firing her, authorities said. They not only “devastated” the patients, they also got her arrested and charged with forgery. Michelle Morrison, 52, admitted she typed out the letters, telling the Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital patients that their electroshock therapy treatment did not work and that it was recommended that they undergo frontal lobotomies, according to Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office.

LL Cool J plays a special agent on TV's "NCIS: Los Angeles" and now he's caught an actual bad guy. Los Angeles police say the rapper grabbed and held a burglary suspect at his Studio City home Wednesday morning.

A man in Pennsylvania who was arrested Saturday for allegedly stealing a bag of marijuana from a police station says he did so because he couldn’t resist the drug’s aroma.

Police lost a set of keys at Wembley Stadium last week but security was not compromised at the London Olympic soccer venue, officials said Monday.