SALEM, Massachusetts (Reuters) - At a church on the New England coast 200 years ago, five young men became ordained as Congregational missionaries and set off on cargo ships to India as the first ...

Elizabeth Smart married her fiance Saturday at a Mormon temple in Hawaii. A family spokesman said the Utah woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint at age 14 and held captive for nine months married ...

Jurors in former University of Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely V's murder trial will now have three days away from court to think about what they have heard and seen before reconvening to ...

On the surface, Edward Maher and his wife appeared to enjoy a comfortable middle-class life. They had homes in quiet neighborhoods, drove late-model cars and took occasional weekend trips. They ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Four people were killed in two separate avalanches near Washington state ski resorts on Sunday, but eight others initially said to be missing were found alive, authorities said ...

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A man who said the crack cocaine he was smoking "brought the devil out in him" was looking for a woman to abduct and kill before he strangled a school teacher who happened ...