Blaze at the single-story home in Newnan, about 40 miles southwest of Atlanta, killed a woman and four young children

When the first call came in, it was just a fire. Smoke was coming from West Fertilizer Co. and an alarm was sounding, so a woman at a park just across the railroad tracks called 911. She was calm and matter of fact. The dispatcher responded in kind:...

On a grassy Texas prairie two decades ago, massive flames engulfed a religious sect's compound where nearly 80 people — including two dozen children — had been holed up since a botched federal raid seven weeks earlier.

A fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer has been charged with murdering a Riverside police officer and special circumstances that could bring the death penalty.

Searchers took advantage Saturday of a break from recent stormy weather in their hunt for a former Los Angeles police officer suspected in three killings, patrolling a mountain resort town in heat-sensing copters and fanning out on foot in fresh snow

He forced his way into the school by breaking a window, officials said. Asked whether the children suffered, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. H. Wayne Carver paused. "If so," he said, "not for very long."

Investigators worked to understand what led a 20-year-old to slaughter 26 children and adults at a Connecticut elementary school, while townspeople struggled with how to get through a holiday season that has suddenly become a time of mourning.