Fractured Rib

Robert Vigorito knew he had changed some lives over the years since he helped start the Columbia Triathlon in 1984. He transformed an inaugural event that attracted fewer than 100 competitors into one of the top triathlons in the country with as many as...

For cornerback D.J. Hayden, the ability to thrive in one-on-one situations sets him apart. It was teamwork, though, that saved his life. Hayden, drafted 12th overall by the Oakland Raiders last month, nearly died on the University of Houston...

A Saline County judge has granted a change of venue motion in a first-degree murder and child abuse trial. Attorneys for Antonio Brown asked a judge to consider the motion, saying their client could not receive a fair trial in Saline County. Brown is...

A mother and her boyfriend face aggravated battery charges in connection to the severe beating of the woman's 4-year-old son. Amy Pherigo, 31, the boy's mother, and Jose A. Morales, 26, Pherigo's boyfriend, were each ordered held in lieu of $2 million...

A mother and her boyfriend face aggravated battery charges in connection to the severe beating of the woman's 4-year-old son. Amy Pherigo, 31, the boy's mother, and Jose A. Morales, 26, Pherigo's boyfriend, were each ordered held in lieu of $2 million...

Kidnappings, suicide bombings and hundreds of violent deaths have bloodied Pakistan’s campaign trail. Still, the parliamentary vote Saturday is being heralded as a milestone in the country’s democratic advancement. Once the votes are tallied...

When three young women emerged from a Cleveland home Monday evening after being held captive for about a decade, neighbors were thunderstruck. Ariel Castro, 52, who owns the home and who faces kidnapping and rape charges, was known as a sunny face,...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Imran Khan, the former cricket star who heads up one of the leading parties in national elections set for Saturday, suffered three fractured vertebrae and a broken rib in a fall in the eastern city of Lahore this week and probably...

There's a good chance that many of the student-athletes in the audience listening to Jarret Hitchings on Tuesday morning inside the Liberty High School library had never heard of Bob Stem. But for those who knew the situation, who remembered the...

An Osceola County jury took less than two hours Tuesday to find a career burglar guilty of the 1989 rape and first-degree murder of a 79-year-old widow. Circuit Judge Mark Blechman immediately sentenced Johnny Lee Hilton, 54, to two consecutive life...

KISSIMMEE — Bertha Hemminghaus' horrid death in 1989 was described in painstaking detail in an Osceola County courtroom Monday. A soft-spoken medical examiner took less than 20 minutes to describe how the 79-year-old widow was beaten and raped &#...

WILLARD, Mo. - A husband and wife suffered minor injuries after they had to jump from a second-story window in their Willard home in the 7600 block of Westy Wynwood Drive to escape a fire early Thursday morning.  They said they heard a lightning strike...