Author: N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY

Lily Avant, 10, was hospitalized after her family says she contracted a rare ‘brain-eating’ amoeba while swimming in a Texas river.

Bee Love Slater was found badly burned in a car in Florida earlier this month. Advocates believe she is the 18th transgender person killed this year.

A 17-year-old from Florida stole $1,400 from her parents to buy drugs and hire someone to kill them, according to an arrest affidavit.

A California family of three was rescued from the top of a waterfall after sending a message in a bottle downstream.

A dozen leaders of a California-based church lured homeless people into group homes and forced them to panhandle, according to an indictment.

Chun Yong Oh is charged with first and second degree murder for the death of Hwa Cha Pak, her neighbor at a home for senior citizens in Maryland.

An Atlanta attorney has been charged with murder after he allegedly struck and killed a real estate investor he says hit his car with a golf ball.

Anne McClain allegedly accessed her estranged wife’s bank account while on the International Space Station. She denies doing ‘anything improper.’

A Washington state trooper spotted a car pulled over on the side of a highway. The driver was playing Pokemon GO on eight phones.

Astronomers observing the black hole at the center of our galaxy watched it light up with “unprecedented brightness.” And they aren’t sure why.