The day Toni Enclade has dreaded is upon her -- Mother's Day.

Enclade's 26-year-old daughter Terrilynn Monette, a teacher in New Orleans, vanished on March 2. Enclade has been preparing herself to face the second Sunday in May without her.

"I have to keep myself strong for...

Authorities in Ohio filed charges Wednesday against one of the men arrested in connection to the disappearance of three women held for a decade in a dilapidated home in Cleveland.

Ariel Castro, 52, faces four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape, Cleveland's chief assistant prosecutor said today at...

The three women rescued on Monday had been held captive as long as 10 years. For families of others still missing, the news evokes mixed feelings.

"It's so great that their families have some answers. It's just hard, for other parents, knowing their children are still gone," Carolyn Johnson of...

A suspect who is charged with lying to investigators of the Boston Marathon bombing will be closely monitored under "strict conditions."

Under terms proposed by his defense attorney and prosecutors Monday, Robel Phillipos, 19, will be confined to house arrest and ordered to wear an electronic bracelet, allowing authorities to...

Three men were arrested on charges that they helped Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after the deadly attacks last month.

Federal prosecutors allege that Dias Kadyrbayev, 19, and Azamat Tazhayakov, 19, tried to conceal and destroy a laptop computer and backpack full of fireworks belonging to Tsarnaev, a...

The Boston Police Department has three more suspects in custody that are connected to the deadly bombings at last month's Boston Marathon.

The police made the announcement with a Twitter message Wednesday morning.

Three additional suspects taken into custody in Marathon bombing case. Details to follow.

-- Boston Police...

The brothers who allegedly detonated pressure cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon had rudimentary plans of traveling to New York for an attack on Times Square, according to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, told interrogators that he and his older brother, Tamerlan, intended to set off...

Brittanee Drexel was 17 when she vanished exactly four years ago today on the busy streets of Myrtle Beach, S.C. Now, her family has returned to the oceanside haven for tourists in a renewed effort locate her.

As a symbolic expression of their determination to be reunited with her,...

Anyone in Cambridge, Mass., who sees flashing lights or hears sirens need only log onto the police department's Twitter account to find out what's going on.

Bank robberies, fights, downed trees, and 15 other categories of crimes and crises get tweeted out by the Cambridge Police Department almost as...

The shaggy 19-year-old accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing with his older brother "appears calm" in a panicked crowd, federal prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint filed Monday.

The complaint offers new details about last week's bombing and reveals that the suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev has multiple gunshot wounds...

BOSTON -- The series of shootings, explosions, and ensuing security clampdown and eventual street parties here will always be talked about by those who lived through the tumult on Thursday and Friday.

For two HuffPost reporters, it was a surreal 24 hours spent chasing a big story. Getting the job...

WATERTOWN, Mass. -- Friday morning in the Boston area began in a tense silence, as the sprawling manhunt for an alleged teenaged terrorist forced city residents indoors for their own safety. Friday night, however, ended with spontaneous parades celebrating his capture.

As 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was pulled...

A violent crime spree across Greater Boston that took the lives of a campus police officer and one of the suspects in the Marathon bombings morphed into a desperate door-to-door search for a man believed to be the second bomber in Monday’s dual blasts.

After a string of explosions and...

BOSTON -- False hope that a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings had been arrested dominated news reports for much of Wednesday, two days after explosions rocked the elite road race, killing three people and injuring more than 170.

But in the end, reports of an arrest...

BOSTON -- Officials have been mum about security preparations before the Boston Marathon, and the swift response after the bombings near the race's finish line Monday, instead focusing on who's responsible for the fatal blasts, not how they were able to overcome security at one of the most heavily guarded...

BOSTON -- Near a baseball diamond and a grassy field where 8-year-old Martin Richard used to play, hundreds of neighbors with American flags and candles gathered Tuesday night to remember a young life cut short by the Boston Marathon bombing.

Many of those from the proud, close-knit neighborhood...

Authorities investigating the bombings at the Boston Marathon warned on Tuesday not to expect immediate answers about who was behind the explosions that ripped apart the race's finish line Monday afternoon.

Even as the public poured in tips -- more than 2,000 by noon on Tuesday -- and the FBI...

Authorities investigating the bombings at the Boston Marathon warned on Tuesday not to expect immediate answers about who was behind the explosions that ripped apart the race's finish line Monday afternoon.

Even as the public poured in tips -- more than 2,000 by noon on Tuesday -- and the FBI...

Authorities investigating the bombings at the Boston Marathon warned on Tuesday not to expect immediate answers about who was behind the explosions that ripped apart the race's finish line Monday afternoon.

Even as the public poured in tips -- more than 2,000 by noon on Tuesday -- and the FBI...

Prosecutors and police cooperated more than ever before in 2012 to free people falsely convicted of crimes they didn't commit, according to a new study.

Last year, 63 people were exonerated, according to figures compiled by the National Registry of Exonerations. In more than half of the cases, law...