In a fast-moving child abuse investigation that started two weeks ago in Denmark, U.S. officials this week arrested a suspect in northern California and are now trying to determine whether there are additional child victims.
Alaskans and air travelers remained on alert Thursday due to the rumblings of a more than 8,000-foot volcano that has already emitted a "continuous ash, steam and gas cloud" that extends up to 60 miles away.
Police in Omaha, Nebraska, said Thursday that they're looking into whether there's a connection between the recent killings of a university professor and his wife and two unsolved area homicides.
A homeless hitchhiker who achieved Internet celebrity by acting as a Good Samaritan with a hatchet is now being sought by police as a murder suspect in a separate case, New Jersey authorities said Thursday.
President Obama rejected calls for a special counsel to investigate IRS targeting of conservative groups and declared he would fix any problems in government.