In an open letter to President Barack Obama published Tuesday, dozens of doctors asked to be allowed to treat hunger-striking prisoners at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
P. Jeffrey Black bumped up against his bosses in the Federal Air Marshal Service, eventually becoming a whistle-blower and testifying to a closed-door congressional hearing before his retirement in 2010.
Sheriff's deputies in northern California say a 27-year-old stabbed his father with scissors, then cut off his hands with a radial arm type saw. Both are being treated at area hospitals.
The death of a boy at a North Carolina hotel could have been prevented had police been told that the carbon monoxide that killed him was also to blame for two earlier deaths, a police chief says.
Two California teens who stranded themselves atop a windy, 8,600-foot-high cliff ended up being rescued in what resembled a movie scene, according to authorities.