Since its birth in the early 1940s, film noir painted a picture of intoxicating cigarette smoke, moral decay, and a bleak world. But every now and then, a handful of filmmakers dare to twist and ...

A fantasy football punishment at UC Berkeley prompted a late-night kidnapping alert after witnesses reported students ...

A group of people who grabbed a UC Berkeley student and put him into a van on campus Tuesday night did it as part of a prank related to their fantasy football league, authorities say. The student is ...

Gunmen attacked a government girls’ boarding school in Nigeria’s Kebbi State early on Monday, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students, police said, in the latest mass kidnapping in ...

You have reached your maximum number of articles. Log in or create an account FREE of charge to continue reading. Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped several students and staff from a Catholic school early ...

ALIQUIPPA, Pa. — Two people are behind bars in Beaver County after police say they kidnapped a woman and threatened to have her killed. It all started in Aliquippa, Beaver County on Monday afternoon ...

A 61-year-old man suspected of attempting to kidnap a 12-year-old girl by allegedly grabbing her and trying to place her in his vehicle in Corona has been taken into custody, authorities announced on ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Twenty-four girls who were abducted from a government boarding school in northwestern Nigeria last week have been released, the state governor's media aide said ...

A Beaver County woman escaped a kidnapping earlier this week by jumping out of a car stopped at a red light in Pittsburgh, police said. The couple accused of abducting her has been arrested and jailed ...

Students and teachers were taken captive from a Catholic school in the latest in a wave of such attacks in the country. By Ruth Maclean and Ismail Alfa Ruth Maclean is the West Africa bureau chief, ...

MAGA, Nigeria (AP) — A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria has escaped and is safe, the school’s principal told The Associated Press on Tuesday, as ...