The serial killer who terrorized a South Carolina community by shooting five people to death before police killed him Monday was a career criminal paroled just two months ago, authorities said. ...more

July 6, 2009

Former Gov. Claude Kirk knows it isn't a good idea to accept rides from strangers and quickly realizes his mistake as soon as he does. ...more

March 31, 2009

"Revelation," by C.J. Sansom (Viking, $26) Matthew Shardlake is a hunchback lawyer living in London during the reign of Henry VIII. The year is 1543, and the king wants to marry Catherine Parr. ...more

February 1, 2009

A serial killer who died more than a decade ago is the person who decapitated the 6-year-old son of "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh in 1981, Florida police said Tuesday. ...more

December 16, 2008

A teenager on trial in the slaying of a classmate had said it would be "cool" to be a serial killer years before the slaying in a school bathroom, a former friend testified Tuesday. ...more

September 17, 2008

"Hold Tight," by Harlan Coben (Dutton, $26.95) To read this fast-paced novel is to hope that the events Harlan Coben describes will never, ever happen to you. But maybe they will, and that's the point. ...more

July 27, 2008

"Child 44," by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central Publishing, $24.95) ...more

June 8, 2008

When a person loses $7.2 billion of other people's money, other people naturally want to know more about him. They badly want to believe that he is in some way unusual. To blow up $7 billion - to buy more than $75 billion in equities in private - must require some kind of genius. ...more

January 31, 2008

Eight people whose skeletal remains were discovered last year in a wooded area just outside downtown Fort Myers were the victims of homicide, police said Friday. ...more

January 18, 2008

'Midnight Rambler,' by James Swain (Ballantine, $24.95) ...more

October 28, 2007