North America Conflict & Tragedy News

Pakistan’s intelligence service is secretly sheltering the Taliban’s top leader, US intelligence sources tell the Washington Times. Helping Mullah Omar escape from the town of Quetta, along the Afghanistan border, to the port city of Karachi, deep within Pakistan. The...

The man authorities say led a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago was sentenced Friday in Miami to 13 1/2 years in federal prison. Prosecutors had wanted to see Narseal Batiste sent away for 70 years but...

A Ferrum College student in VA dies and another injured. Jessica Goode and two classmates were collecting frogs about a mile away from campus, for biology class, when they were shot at. Goode was killed, another injured and one got...

CLASS & STYLE http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=9118306 I started this article with a link that will hopefully lead the readers to a snippet of an interview with Martha Stewart, that has been splattered all over the news. In watching it on Good Morning...

A seemingly innocent shirt asking readers to pray for the president has ulterior motives. Shirts and bumper stickers are cropping up with the phrase "Pray for Obama Psalm 109:8." As Gawker points out, the verse in question reads in part,...

A pair of Chicago-based men busted last month in a plot to kill the Danish Mohammed cartoonist are now suspected of helping plot the Mumbai attacks last year. Suspect David Headley—who changed his name from Daood Gilani to make border...

The small hamlet of North Pole, Alaska is going to be a little less cheery this Christmas. The town of 21,000 has been the receipient of millions of letters to Santa Claus since 1954 and makes a great seasonal living...