Dec 30 - By Brian Skoloff, Associated Press Writer
A Venezuelan-owned polo team that endured the deaths of 21 horses from a mineral overdose earlier this year is preparing to start a new season next month with a fresh fleet of horses.

Dec 22 - By Associated Press
Two rare Siberian tigers were among a group of big cats in a Russian traveling circus that died during a 20-hour truck journey this week, a circus administrator said Thursday.
Dec 18 - By Associated Press
A man accused of killing a suburban Pittsburgh police officer has been ordered to stand trial on two homicide counts.
Dec 16 - By Ben Dobbin, AP Business Writer
A nursing supervisor enraged at two co-workers who accused him of sexual harassment drew a life sentence Wednesday for killing a nurse and a bystander during a shooting rampage that left four people dead.
Dec 15 - By Associated Press
An autopsy has failed to determine what killed a Santa Ana College baseball player who was found face-down in a Fullerton creek.
Dec 6 - By Joe Mandak, Associated Press
A parolee wearing an electronic ankle bracelet fatally shot a man at his home over a $500 drug debt, then walked outside and opened fire on a patrol car, killing an officer awaiting backup, authorities said.

Dec 6 - By Tim Sullivan, Associated Press Writer
He left home on a rainy Wednesday morning, walking through the gate of his solid middle-class house and into the narrow streets of Srinagar, Kashmir's largest city. He needed to pick up some medicine for his elderly father.
Dec 4 - By Associated Press
Chicago's police superintendent says the investigation of city Board of Education President Michael Scott's death is complete.
Dec 2 - By Associated Press
Mexican federal prosecutors will review their witness protection program after gunmen killed a drug case informant in a Starbucks coffee shop in the capital, officials said Wednesday.
Nov 30 - By Ben Dobbin, AP Business Writer
A twice-fired nursing supervisor enraged at two co-workers who accused him of sexual harassment was convicted Monday of killing a nurse and a bystander during a Valentine's Day rampage that left four people dead in upstate New York.

Nov 16 - By Don Babwin, Associated Press Writer
Chicago police said Wednesday that tests have revealed gunshot residue on the hand of Michael Scott — the strongest evidence yet that the president of the city's school board took his own life.
Nov 16 - By Corey Williams, Associated Press Writer
If Phillip Parsons was having financial or other troubles, he didn't let on to his friend, Russ Whittaker, as they cut trees or talked about high school sports.

Nov 8 - By Matti Friedman, Associated Press Writer
It is the British empire of the dead.
Nov 4 - By Bradley Brooks, Associated Press Writers
A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral.
Nov 4 - By Brian Skoloff, Associated Press Writer
Random drug tests will begin next year for horses in polo matches in the U.S. after the deaths of 21 elite horses in Florida that were injected with an incorrectly mixed supplement shortly before a championship match, the United States Polo Association said Wednesday.
Nov 3 - By Martha Waggoner, Associated Press Writer
A North Carolina businessman who coached basketball at the religious school where his teenagers attended classes fatally shot his family in their upscale home before turning the gun on himself, police said Tuesday.
Oct 28 - By Associated Press
A former multimillionaire real estate financier has been found shot to death in a parking garage in Los Angeles.
Oct 28 - By Associated Press
Fort Lewis has confirmed that eight soldiers who died in Afghanistan on Tuesday were assigned to a unit from the Army base near Tacoma, Wash.

Oct 28 - By Associated Press
According to Forbes magazine, the richest dead celebrity isn't Michael Jackson.

Oct 25 - By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press Writer
One immigration agent was accused of running an Internet pornography business and enjoying an improper relationship with an informant. Another let an informant smuggle in a group of illegal immigrants. And in a third case, an agent was investigated for soliciting sex from a witness in a marriage fraud case.

Oct 23 - By Chris Blank, Associated Press Writer
Mourners wore pink and released balloons Wednesday to honor a slain 9-year-old from Missouri who was remembered at her funeral as a "precious little girl" who liked horses and music.

Oct 21 - By Carolyn Lessard, Associated Press Writer
"Dracula: The Un-Dead" (Dutton, 424 pages, $26.95) by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt: Long before Edward Cullen of the "Twilight" series and Bill Compton of HBO's "True Blood," there was the original vampire, Bram Stoker's Prince Dracula, in the gothic horror novel "Dracula."
Oct 15 - By Associated Press
A man who says he told his two daughters their mother was dead after a policeman incorrectly identified her as the victim in a Massachusetts house fire has lost his lawsuit against the city where it happened.
Oct 14 - By Associated Press
Reynolds Smith Jr. was a stalwart Democratic voter in Alabama. But the Alabama Democratic Party overlooked another fact when it appointed Smith to an interim party panel: He died in November at age 83.
Oct 11 - By Associated Press
A southwest Missouri man faces a murder charge after his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend and her father and stepmother were shot and killed.