The five-year-old was taken from her sleeping mother and sister for a ritual murder. Sadly, it's not uncommon.

Ron Stallworth was the first black cadet to join his police division in the 1970s. He's also the first black man to hold a membership card from the KKK.

The unidentifiable blob-like animal is likely a decomposing sea creature, but some locals see it as a bad sign of things to come.

A refugee with no paperwork, Mehran Karimi Nasseri had nowhere to go to and nowhere to go back to.

Yuichiro Miura climbed Everest the last time after undergoing four heart operations and suffering a shattered pelvis.

Once she got him in the car, she told him "he would never be coming home."

Richard Overton's advice on living a long life? Cigars, whiskey, and just don't die.

The discovery shows that humans' remarkable ability to adapt is the real reason major advances happened during the Stone Age.

"Beer and baseball go together, they have for years. But I think those kids were doing things other than beer."

In one member's own words, the Rainbow Family is "the largest best coordinated nonpolitical nondenominational nonorganization of like-minded individuals on the planet."

The fall from the observational deck of the Empire State Building is about 1,050 feet.