Five people, including three young children, died in an apartment fire, some taking refuge from the smoky blaze in a full bathtub and underneath a sink, fire officials said.

An attorney for a Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife murdered has been found dead in an apparent suicide.

After spending two weeks out of town, two Dominican nuns returned to their Baltimore home to find letters and an e-mail from the Maryland State Police saying they were wrongfully labeled as suspected terrorists in a federal database.

AA balloon basket caught on fire, separated from the rest of the balloon and crashed during the city's annual hot-air balloon fiesta Friday, killing one person, a fiesta official said.

An elderly man shot his ailing wife to death in her bed in a Toms River hospital before turning the gun on himself, authorities said.

O.J. Simpson, locked in jail and pondering his future, feels hopeful he will win a new trial on appeal because he believes jury interviews show "he was absolutely railroaded," his lawyer told The Associated Press.

Officials say a member of Qatar's army was injured when he landed on a roof during parachute training in central Florida.

Owners of EquiTransfer farm near Ocala think some sort of toxin in hay affected horses' nervous systems.

A family thought they were getting a good deal when they found a rental house for $1,000 a month until the owner showed up and asked what they were doing there.