Fractured Rib

A Palmdale woman and her boyfriend were arrested Thursday in connection with what officials called the attempted murder of an 8-year-old boy. The boy was found with severe injuries consistent with child abuse, including a skull fracture, several...

As Christopher Lorek went on to become an FBI special agent, a circle of friends and family back home in Glen Ellyn cheered him on from afar. That pride was compounded with sadness this week as news of the 41-year-old's death in a training accident...

— Arrelious Benn on Tuesday became the second Philadelphia Eagle in two days to make an unsolicited statement about how much he loves getting up and coming to work every day. The 6-foot-2, 220-pound wide receiver is in this ideal situation...

For cornerback D.J. Hayden, the ability to thrive in one-on-one situations sets him apart. It was teamwork, though, that saved his life. Hayden, drafted 12th overall by the Oakland Raiders last month, nearly died on the University of Houston...

Robert Vigorito knew he had changed some lives over the years since he helped start the Columbia Triathlon in 1984. He transformed an inaugural event that attracted fewer than 100 competitors into one of the top triathlons in the country with as many as...

A Saline County judge has granted a change of venue motion in a first-degree murder and child abuse trial. Attorneys for Antonio Brown asked a judge to consider the motion, saying their client could not receive a fair trial in Saline County. Brown is...

A mother and her boyfriend face aggravated battery charges in connection to the severe beating of the woman's 4-year-old son. Amy Pherigo, 31, the boy's mother, and Jose A. Morales, 26, Pherigo's boyfriend, were each ordered held in lieu of $2 million...

A mother and her boyfriend face aggravated battery charges in connection to the severe beating of the woman's 4-year-old son. Amy Pherigo, 31, the boy's mother, and Jose A. Morales, 26, Pherigo's boyfriend, were each ordered held in lieu of $2 million...

Kidnappings, suicide bombings and hundreds of violent deaths have bloodied Pakistan’s campaign trail. Still, the parliamentary vote Saturday is being heralded as a milestone in the country’s democratic advancement. Once the votes are tallied...

When three young women emerged from a Cleveland home Monday evening after being held captive for about a decade, neighbors were thunderstruck. Ariel Castro, 52, who owns the home and who faces kidnapping and rape charges, was known as a sunny face,...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Imran Khan, the former cricket star who heads up one of the leading parties in national elections set for Saturday, suffered three fractured vertebrae and a broken rib in a fall in the eastern city of Lahore this week and probably...

There's a good chance that many of the student-athletes in the audience listening to Jarret Hitchings on Tuesday morning inside the Liberty High School library had never heard of Bob Stem. But for those who knew the situation, who remembered the...