Kyle Swenson The Washington Post

The hospital staff was insistent, but Brenda Bennett-Johnson could not be sure. It was May 13 and Bennett-Johnson and her sister Rosie Brooks were visiting the intensive care unit at Chicago's Mercy Hospital & Medical Center, watching a man struggle for his life. Authorities said they were looking at their brother.

The attack in the Dominican Republic that a Delaware woman described was brutal: Being strangled and beaten. Getting dragged down concrete stairs. Wondering if she was going to die.

The world's most famous peak is showing its wear and tear. Since it was first successfully topped in 1953, Mount Everest has become a sought-after destination for international daredevil climbers. Each spring, hundreds of people flock to the slopes of the nearly 30,000-foot mountain.

Law enforcement called on March 6, crunching up the dirt driveway to the baby-blue single-story house in Lakewood, Wisconsin, an isolated town of around 800 people about 1 1 2/ hours northwest of Green Bay

Fact and fantasy collided for Michael Usry Jr with a knock on his door in December 2014. Officers from the Louisiana State Police were outside, asking the then-35-year-old to come downtown for a conversation.

72-year-old French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin on an Atlantic crossing in a plywood barrel had set off from the Canary Islands on Dec. 26, 2018.

Cherone Coleman was worried. In March, she had split from her fiance, Martin Pereira. Now the couple was waging war in a Queens courtroom over the custody of their 3-year-old daughter, Zoey.

The day of reckoning inside an Upstate New York courtroom did not go as planned - at least for prosecutors and the victim's family.

It was a single-story, three-bedroom ranch house on a quiet residential street in a northern stretch of Jacksonville, Florida. Aaron Fraser had not lived inside since he was 4 years old, and the four walls held plenty of ugly memories and unresolved questions. But in December 2014, after the 24-year-old took possession of the house, he and his brot...

A man found on a street corner in Newport, Kentucky, this week who told authorities he was a child missing since 2011 was not the person he claimed to be, police said Thursday.

Nearly a year ago, a shirtless man and his father, also shirtless except for a black vest, stalked through the wilderness on Esther Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska. They were searching for prey.

Last summer, a Michigan felon then living in Southern California powered up a Facebook account and let rip. "I am no angel. If I get pissed I kill," Michael Leon Curry wrote on Facebook on June 28, 2018. "I have never killed anyone who did not - who didn't deserve it."

A figure slinks out of the late-night shadows, stepping onto the cobblestone streets of Old San Juan, the historic district of the Puerto Rican capital city. In the orange glow falling from nearby street lamps, a long knife flashes from his hand.

The couple lived on a tree-shaded street in Silver Spring Township, Pennsylvania. The house overlooked a creek that corkscrewed all the way to the Susquehanna River and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, about 10 miles away to the east. Inside, the relationship between Rabihan and Hap Seiders allegedly flashed with brutal violence.

Their father was old and frail, ground down by his 85 years of life and hounded by cancer and dementia. He would die soon, his grown daughters Mary-Beth Tomaselli and Linda Roberts reasoned. They decided to help him make an early exit, police now say.

The hospital staff was insistent, but Brenda Bennett-Johnson could not be sure. It was May 13 and Bennett-Johnson and her sister Rosie Brooks were visiting the intensive care unit at Chicago's Mercy Hospital & Medical Center, watching a man struggle for his life. Authorities said they were looking at their brother.

The attack in the Dominican Republic that a Delaware woman described was brutal: Being strangled and beaten. Getting dragged down concrete stairs. Wondering if she was going to die.

The world's most famous peak is showing its wear and tear. Since it was first successfully topped in 1953, Mount Everest has become a sought-after destination for international daredevil climbers. Each spring, hundreds of people flock to the slopes of the nearly 30,000-foot mountain.

Law enforcement called on March 6, crunching up the dirt driveway to the baby-blue single-story house in Lakewood, Wisconsin, an isolated town of around 800 people about 1 1 2/ hours northwest of Green Bay

Fact and fantasy collided for Michael Usry Jr with a knock on his door in December 2014. Officers from the Louisiana State Police were outside, asking the then-35-year-old to come downtown for a conversation.

72-year-old French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin on an Atlantic crossing in a plywood barrel had set off from the Canary Islands on Dec. 26, 2018.

Cherone Coleman was worried. In March, she had split from her fiance, Martin Pereira. Now the couple was waging war in a Queens courtroom over the custody of their 3-year-old daughter, Zoey.

The day of reckoning inside an Upstate New York courtroom did not go as planned - at least for prosecutors and the victim's family.

It was a single-story, three-bedroom ranch house on a quiet residential street in a northern stretch of Jacksonville, Florida. Aaron Fraser had not lived inside since he was 4 years old, and the four walls held plenty of ugly memories and unresolved questions. But in December 2014, after the 24-year-old took possession of the house, he and his brot...

A man found on a street corner in Newport, Kentucky, this week who told authorities he was a child missing since 2011 was not the person he claimed to be, police said Thursday.

Nearly a year ago, a shirtless man and his father, also shirtless except for a black vest, stalked through the wilderness on Esther Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska. They were searching for prey.

Last summer, a Michigan felon then living in Southern California powered up a Facebook account and let rip. "I am no angel. If I get pissed I kill," Michael Leon Curry wrote on Facebook on June 28, 2018. "I have never killed anyone who did not - who didn't deserve it."

A figure slinks out of the late-night shadows, stepping onto the cobblestone streets of Old San Juan, the historic district of the Puerto Rican capital city. In the orange glow falling from nearby street lamps, a long knife flashes from his hand.

The couple lived on a tree-shaded street in Silver Spring Township, Pennsylvania. The house overlooked a creek that corkscrewed all the way to the Susquehanna River and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, about 10 miles away to the east. Inside, the relationship between Rabihan and Hap Seiders allegedly flashed with brutal violence.

Their father was old and frail, ground down by his 85 years of life and hounded by cancer and dementia. He would die soon, his grown daughters Mary-Beth Tomaselli and Linda Roberts reasoned. They decided to help him make an early exit, police now say.