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• Man charged for beating tourist in head with hammer

  August 1, 2012 5:32 AM

  NEW YORK (AP) - A man has been charged with hitting a Spanish tourist in the head with a hammer in a park next to New York's City Hall. John Yoos is being held without bail after his arraignment Tuesday on attempted murder charges. He is due back in court... more »

• Head of Libyan Olympic Committee kidnapped

  July 16, 2012 6:31 AM

  TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Gunmen in the Libyan capital have abducted the head of the country's Olympic committee. Salah al-Alam says assailants snatched his brother, Libyan Olympic Committee chief Ahmed Nabil al-Taher al-Alam on Sunday near the organization's offices in central Tripoli. He says there has been no contact with... more »

• Teen injured after falling from hood of moving vehicle

  February 22, 2012 2:54 AM

  A teen boy is in critical condition after Colorado Springs police say he fell from the hood of a moving vehicle and hit his head. It happened Tuesday night a little before 9:00 p.m. Officers say four teens were in a vehicle the parking area on the south edge... more »

• Mystery of severed bison head solved

  November 15, 2011 7:38 AM

  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Police in Boulder, Colo., have solved the mystery of how a severed bison head ended up on a decorative rock in someone's front yard. It belongs to somebody who lives in the home but forgot to tell his roommates about it. The roommates called police... more »

• Arizona Congresswoman and others shot at Tucson political event

  January 8, 2011 2:21 PM

  MSNBC - U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head while holding a public event in Tucson, according to medial reports. Up to 12 others were injured after an unidentified gunman ran up and began shooting indiscriminately as Giffords addressed supporters outside a Safeway grocery store,... more »

• Family sues after son hit by fly ball

  September 3, 2010 8:34 PM

  The New Mexico Supreme Court is allowing a family to sue because their son was hit in the head by a ball during batting practice before an Albuquerque Isotopes game. The court on Friday outlined a new legal standard in New Mexico for determining the liability of owners and operators... more »

• Head injuries linked to Lou Gehrig's disease

  August 17, 2010 6:49 PM

  Scientists have found evidence connecting head injuries in athletes to Lou Gehrig's disease. Dr. Ann McKee says she found toxic proteins in the spinal cords of three athletes who had suffered head injuries and then later died of Lou Gehrig's disease, or ALS. Those same proteins have been found in... more »

• Gunmen kill 8-year-old Chicago girl as she plays

  August 11, 2010 9:51 AM

  Police say two gunmen on bicycles killed an 8-year-old girl and wounded her younger cousin as the children were skipping rope in a Chicago neighborhood. Deputy Police Superintendent Ernest Brown says the shooting happened Tuesday evening in Roseland on Chicago's South Side. Brown says the two men rolled up... more »

• Woman uses Three Stooges move on criminal

  August 4, 2010 10:36 AM

  "I had watched the Three Stooges cartoons a long, long time ago. I actually wanted to hook his neck with the front part of my cane, I wanted to hook him and I wanted to pull him inside my kitchen," Henrietta Lopez said. Lopez, 67, described her first thoughts... more »

• 3 arrested in Colorado Springs apartment shooting

  August 2, 2010 8:35 AM

  Three Colorado Springs men are in custody after a veteran was shot and killed. Timothy Roath, 23, died Thursday when he was shot in the head at an apartment complex. Police arrested Kirby Braithwaite and Anthony Swindle on suspicion of murder Saturday. A third man, Quenton Heard, is... more »

• Doctor: Bret Michaels will make a full recovery

  May 2, 2010 10:10 AM

  Bret Michaels' is expected to make a full recovery, according to his doctor. The 47-year-old former Poison frontman's will to live is "undeniable," said Dr. Joseph Zabramski, chief of cerebrovascular surgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, who has been leading... more »

• Wedding guest injured playing Russian roulette

  March 28, 2010 9:04 AM

  Russian television has aired a video of a wedding guest shooting himself in the head with a rubber bullet in a game of Russian roulette. An excerpt from a wedding video airing on NTV television shows a man addressing the groom, then whipping out a pistol, pointing it to... more »

• Family will not appeal cryonics ruling

  March 4, 2010 2:28 PM

  The family of a woman at the center of a court battle over freezing her remains will not appeal a court ruling that gives possession of the woman's head to a cryonics facility in Arizona. Mary Robbins head will be frozen indefinitely in the hope that it her thoughts... more »

• Arguments begin in cryonics case

  February 26, 2010 12:15 PM

  Colorado Springs Probate Judge Barbara Hughes is hearing the strange case of Mary Robbins, who died from cancer a couple of weeks ago. She had wanted her body placed at Alcor in Arizona, a non-profit organization that stores human remains in very cold temperatures in hopes science will someday make... more »

• Organization battles to freeze local woman's head

  February 18, 2010 7:15 PM

  An Arizona organization wants to remove, and freeze the head of an elderly Colorado Springs woman who died last week, honoring an agreement it had with the woman. Mary Robbins, 71, of Colorado Springs died on February 9, after a two-month battle with cancer. Her body remains in a local... more »

• Survivor recalls Alabama professor's shooting spree

  February 16, 2010 11:52 AM

  A survivor of the Alabama university shooting said the professor charged in the attack methodically shot the victims in the head until her gun seemed to jam and she was pushed out of the room. Associate professor Joseph Ng told The Associated Press on Tuesday he was one of... more »

• Obama's nominee to lead TSA withdraws

  January 20, 2010 1:31 PM

  President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Transportation Security Administration withdrew his name Wednesday, a blow to an administration trying to explain how a man could attempt to blow up a commercial airliner on Christmas Day. Erroll Southers said he was pulling out because his nomination had become a... more »

• Napolitano says airline security system failed

  December 28, 2009 9:43 AM

  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the aviation security system failed when a young man on a watch list with a U.S. visa in his pocket and a powerful explosive hidden on his body was allowed to board a fight from Amsterdam to Detroit. A day after saying the system... more »

• Authorities: At least 11 victims at Cleveland home

  November 4, 2009 7:10 PM

  Authorities say they have confirmed a total of at least 11 victims whose remains were found in the Cleveland home of a sex offender. The Cuyahoga County coroner's office said Wednesday that a skull found in a bucket in Anthony Sowell's basement belonged to a body they have not yet... more »

• USOC hires search firm, names group to pick CEO

  October 29, 2009 3:08 PM

  The U.S. Olympic Committee has selected a search firm to identify candidates to replace acting CEO Stephanie Streeter. The USOC hired executive search firm Spencer Stuart on Thursday, hoping the firm will team with the USOC's search committee to hire Streeter's replacement by the end of the year. Earlier this... more »

• Body of missing Pueblo County hunter found

  September 16, 2009 4:49 PM

  A massive search effort in Pueblo County has ended tragically with the discovery of a man's body near Camp Jackson. The Rye man was reported missing by his family when he failed to return from a weekend hunting trip. Ricky Greenhood's body was found in a ravine. The Pueblo County... more »