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George to the Rescue host George Oliphant’s recent transformation project is focused on making life better for four-legged shelter animals. Oliphant, a rescue dog dad to Sugar, a yellow lab, told People magazine that he wanted to do something for his local animal shelter. “The word ‘rescue’ doesn’t just have to be about helping somebody’s home and family,” he...

The ex-wife of slain former NBA player Lorenzen Wright pleaded guilty Thursday to facilitation of first-degree murder in his shooting death nine years ago, a surprise development in one of Memphis, Tennessee’s biggest murder cases.

Mets captain David Wright will return for the team’s final homestand, making what will probably be his last appearance as a big leaguer. The Mets said that they plan to activate Wright when they return to Citi Field on Sept. 25 against Atlanta. The 35-year-old is scheduled to start at third base on the second-to-last day of the season against…

A former British Army sergeant who tried to kill his wife by sabotaging her parachute so he could get her insurance money was sentenced Friday to at least 18 years in prison. Sgt. Emile Cilliers was convicted last month of two counts of attempted murder for the parachute tampering and sabotaging a gas valve at the couple’s home. Victoria Cilliers,...

The owners of a New Jersey diner who burned it down to collect insurance money have been spared prison terms.

Sunday marks the six-month anniversary of the devastating tornadoes that swept through North Texas on the day after Christmas 2015. Many residents hit by the storms are still displaced and remain without a home.

Novelist Harper Lee politely knocked on Robert Louis Burns’ door in rural Alabama one day more than three decades ago and asked him about the preacher he killed. “She came up out of the blue,” Burns, now 74, recalled. “She said I’m Harper Lee. She said I’m interested in writing this book about the reverend.” Lee worked on the Alabama...

A father and son duo murdered a housekeeper in September for insurance money, according to Colleyville police.

A Pennsylvania man, accused along with his wife and family members in a more than $20-million insurance scheme, committed suicide in front of one of the family’s homes, multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation told NBC10.

A Bucks County, Pennsylvania family has been charged with setting fires in their matriarch’s home to collect more than $20 million in insurance moneys and float their “excessively extravagant lifestyle,” according to Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane.