Corky Siemaszko

Atticus Root, a 20-year-old bone cancer survivor, was at dinner with friends when the $8,000 custom-made prosthetic limb was taken along with other items from the trunk of his car.

AUSTIN, Texas — Death row inmate Robert Roberson, who faces the prospect of becoming the first person in the U.S. to be executed for a “shaken baby” death, was a no-show Friday at a hearing before a Texas state House committee where he was supposed to testify.

Magnus Carlsen had quit the World Rapid Chess Championship on Friday after he refused to change out of a pair of jeans, violating the dress code.

Babak Hajhosseini was arrested last month after someone came forward to accuse him of drugging and raping her. Now the LAPD is looking to identify other alleged victims.

One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009, a judge had yet to issue a decision in that case.

Fifteen were killed and more than two dozen injured when a suspect crashed a pickup into crowds on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, according to their relatives.

Alexis Scott-Windham said her friends called her mom and she told them to make a tourniquet to stop the bleeding from her right foot.

Amid the homecomings, firefighters continue to battle blazes that have killed 10 people and forced 180,000 others from their homes.

"We are not in the clear as of yet," Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristen Crowley warned.

The amended lawsuit against the IU trustees also adds longtime basketball trainer Tim Garl as a defendant, alleging he was aware of the invasive medical exams.