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A family of Hurricane Katrina survivors whose new house was partly built with lumber from last year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree were among thousands who attended this year's lighting ceremony Wednesday.

The 19-year-old son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez is among four men accused of stabbing a college student to death after being turned away from a fraternity party in October.

The brother-in-law of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson killed three of her relatives - with a gun stolen from one of the victims - because he was angry his estranged wife, the star's sister, was dating another man, prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

A stadium vendor has settled a lawsuit by the family of a girl paralyzed in a car accident caused by a drunken New York Giants fan for $26 million.

After being held captive for about a year, an emaciated and shackled 17-year-old boy climbed out a window in the home of his captors and walked into a nearby gym in search of help, police said Wednesday.

Theological conservatives upset by liberal views of U.S. Episcopalians and Canadian Anglicans formed a rival North American province Wednesday, in a long-developing rift over the Bible that erupted when Episcopalians consecrated the first openly gay bishop.

One of the men accused of plotting to attack soldiers on Fort Dix said it was time to bring holy war to American soil after listening to an Islamist lecture, an informant testified Wednesday.

Thanks to a set of transplanted lungs from a young man killed in a New Jersey church shooting, John Muscarella can breathe a little easier now.

Arkansas child welfare officials seized six more children Wednesday from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries as authorities in California visited another church compound, officials said.

A judge imposed a gag order Wednesday in the capital murder case against a man accused of fatally beating a Little Rock television anchorwoman.