Texas death row inmate Douglas Feldman was executed by lethal injection last night. Last February, Feldman wrote to us as part of our "Letters from Death Row" series; you can read his letter to us here. He is the second one of our death row correspondents to be executed.

An American man on vacation with his son in the popular tourist town of Krabi, Thailand, was reportedly stabbed to death by members of a local karaoke band for refusing to stop singing.

Police in Virginia believe they've solved a double-homicide case that went cold a few years back after a local rapper was found to have recorded a song in which he allegedly brags about committing the crime.

A University of California San Diego student abandoned in a DEA holding cell for four days, without food or water, settled a lawsuit against the Justice Department on Tuesday for $4.1 million.

As a standard part of hiring new workers, lots of businesses run background checks on applicants using the FBI's criminal databases. But those databases have serious problems.

An investigation into what witnesses initially described as a violent robbery perpetrated by two men impersonating Detroit police officers has led to the arrest of two actual police officers, both long-time veterans of Michigan police departments. The reported reason for the crime? The recovery of a cell phone stolen from one of the police officer's daughter.

This video of a Bronx woman going all Elin Nordegren on an SUV comes with very little by way of context.

The green vandal strikes again.

A Texas father of two who left his daughters in a parked car outside his apartment while he ran inside to drop off some groceries returned to find his car had been towed away — with his girls still inside.

A thief holding a gun hauled in around $50 million worth of jewelry during a brazen heist in Cannes Sunday morning.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the ex-IMF chief and disgraced French stereotype who escaped rape charges in New York City in 2011, is now being accused of aggravated pimping for his participation in a series of wild sex parties that often employed the talents of prostitutes.

U.S. attorney general Eric Holder has promised Russia that the U.S. will not seek the death penalty for NSA leaker Edward Snowden. So, uh, send him on over.

Authorities in South Carolina believe they have foiled a local man's plans to murder sex offenders using personal information gleaned from the state's sex offenders registry, the Associated Press reported.

A pair of teenage girls who were arrested on suspicion of robbery in late March could have possibly talked their way out of it — had they not snapped a selfie of themselves dressed as robbers and holding a knife just before allegedly committing the crime.

A western New York man who tweeted his plans to murder controversial TV personality Nancy Grace was apparently in the process of taking his threats to the next level when he was arrested last week on his way out of town.

Authorities in Tennessee arrested a 72-year-old woman for firing a weapon at a car full of children that was backing into her driveway to turn around.

John Morillo, a 47-year-old Canadian man, apologized today for causing an international incident last night when he drank eight beers and then swam across the Detroit River, just to prove to his friends he could.

An FDNY firefighter is being charged with grand larceny and burglary by police after making fake 911 calls and then robbing firehouses after firefighters had gone off to respond to the fake emergencies.

A New York woman has been arrested for using fraudulent hospital records to pose as a Boston Marathon bombing victim and collect $480,000 from a fund for the real victims.

A routine response to an accident in Delaware Wednesday morning turned into an intense police chase across state lines when a 23-year-old suspect fled the scene, first in a car, then on a stolen bicycle, and, finally, with a swim across a bay.