Paul Ciancia, the 23-year-old accused of killing a TSA agent and wounding three others in a rampage at LAX last month, pleaded not guilty to murder and other felony charges today. Ciancia faces the death penalty if convicted.

An Iowa State University professor was forced to resign from his post this week after he fudged a clinical trial to make rabbit blood appear to neutralize HIV, with millions in federal research dollars at stake.

Teenage Floridian William Aydelott was arrested last night after his mother was found dead, with a knife sticking out of her eye. The Northwest Florida Daily News says he fessed up to the killing, "calm and emotionless," as soon as police took him in.

The bros at "stunt comedy troupe" Children of Poseidon say their latest "prank" is a "foolproof trick" to getting "free" McDonald's food from the drive thru every time.

A real-life Grinch was caught on camera last week swiping Christmas packages from the front porches of her neighbors' homes in Bothell, Washington.

A Florida man was quickly arrested after he left his own wallet at the crime scene.

Alisha Hessler says she'd never met Gabriel Urena before Saturday night.

Police in Oklahoma say a domestic violence victim managed to fend off her husband's vicious assault by roughing him up in return, resulting in this priceless mugshot of the suspect.

The top officer in charge of all the United States' land-based nuclear missiles was fired last July for unspecified reasons. Yesterday, the Air Force released a report detailing why he was relieved: He used a four-day mission to Moscow to get pickled, get sexy and party like a rock star.

A Michigan judge ruled today that Theodore Wafer will stand trial for second-degree murder and manslaughter in the killing of Renisha McBride. After listening to two days of testimony, Judge David Turfe said Wafer made a poor choice by not pursuing nonviolent options: "He chose to shoot rather than not answer the door."

A Seattle man who attempted to rob passengers aboard a city bus didn't get very far before he was jumped by several riders, overpowered, and disarmed.

America's embrace of the death penalty makes us a gross anomaly in the developed world. The good news is that we seem to be growing less and less fond of it. The newest numbers are (relatively) encouraging.

Monday morning, Target confirmed reports that criminals attacked its customer information system earlier this year, stealing credit card and personal data from about 40 million customers. The theft began Thanksgiving week, just before Black Friday, and continued until December 15.

Oakland, California, is both the robbery capital of America and one of the country's most expensive places to live. In acknowledgement of this dystopian situation, BART police will escort you and your holiday gifts from the train station to your car. Or, they may shoot you for no reason at all.

Self-styled "men's rights advocates" used their Reddit forum yesterday to organize a spam campaign against Occidental College's online sexual assault reporting system, possibly complicating the already-fraught reporting process for actual victims at the university.

Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins was sentenced today to serve 29 years behind bars and another six under "strict probation," for, among other horrifying things, the attempted rape of a baby.

Florida attorney Mark O'Mara is being investigated by the state bar for an undisclosed possible violation of ethical rules in connection with his defense of George Zimmerman. What could he have done wrong?

A South Carolina man who was unwilling to walk his father's dog because it was raining outside thought he had come up with an acceptable solution: Using the dog's leash to dangle it from his second-story balcony.

He evaded a stiff criminal penalty, but the 16-year-old Texan who drunkenly plowed his truck into a crowd, killing four people, may have just cost his family their life's fortune in civil court.

A lawyer tried an experiment with the NYPD: How long would it take him, a white guy in a suit, to get arrested for tagging a government building in plain view of numerous cops? A long time, it turns out. He walked free for days before finally turning himself in. Justice.