Testing on chimps has saved lives in the past, but whether a chimp gets to retire is entirely up to the labs and the government. Jane Goodall has been trying for decades to get this kind of animal testing banned.

The man who killed a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 Cheshire, Conn., home invasion was sentenced to death on Friday and addressed the court before the sentence was handed down.

A federal judge in Seattle has sentenced the "Barefoot Bandit" to 6 1/2 years in prison for his two-year, international crime spree of break-ins, and boat and plane thefts.

Federal park authorities in the nation's capital gave notice to Occupy protesters -- a move seen by the activists as a "slow creep" aimed at whittling down their demonstration.

Prosecutors intend to retry a retired police sergeant charged with helping cover up deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina.

Patrick Witt, the 22-year-old Yale quarterback who made headlines in November when he chose to lead Yale against arch rival Harvard University over an interview for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship may not have been faced with that tough choice after all.

Four alleged members of the Bonanno organized crime family have been charged with include racketeering, gambling and drug sales.

At least eight sea lions have been found shot to death in the Puget Sound region in recent weeks, wildlife officials say.

A 4-year-old boy brought nine bags of pot to his elementary school and pulled them out during snack time, police said.

Pastors and community activists call for an independent investigation after reports that bodies have been piling up for weeks.

A 50-year-old woman gives a robber a religious lecture after chasing him for almost a mile and cornering him in an alley, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Authorities on Friday charged an 18-year-old man with possession of a weapon of mass destruction after they say he and another teenager planned to bomb a Utah high school.

In another blow to San Francisco’s newly elected sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, a judge has refused to lift an order that prevents him from contact with his wife and son.

In what prosecutors called the longest sentence for stalking in memory, a Seattle-area man received a 26 1/2-year prison term for waging a 17-year campaign of harassment against a former classmate that began after she offered him help with his homework in 1994.

State officials are inspecting what's left of a southwestern Kentucky bridge that collapsed after a cargo ship carrying aviation parts struck it.

The woman who has accused the son of New York City's police commissioner of sexually assaulting her told authorities she got pregnant from the encounter and had an abortion, people familiar with the investigation said.

The 17-year-old, who had been treated for cancer and said he now wants to grow his hair to give to Locks of Love -- a charity that provides wigs for kids who lose their hair due to chemotherapy and other treatments -- has been suspended from his Michigan school.

 ORLANDO, Fla -- Police have arrested a mother after WESH 2 News aired video of a fight between her daughter and another teen. Video sent to WESH shows two teen girls walking to the middle of a field. The girls then swing at each other and pull one another's hair.

A partial collapse at a casino construction site early Friday in Cincinnati has left at least 11 people injured, some seriously, according to news reports.

A photograph showing a group of men with guns posing with a bullet-riddled T-shirt with an image of Barack Obama's face is to be investigated by the Secret Service, a spokesman told NBC News.

A suburban Philadelphia middle school's ban on a popular type of fur-lined boots isn't about fashion, it's about cellphones.

"Dateline NBC" details the the latest development in the 1985 murder of John Sohus,  allegedly committed by Christian Gerhartsreiter, a con artist who invented aristocratic personalities for himself.

What if two computer viruses got together and had a baby? It does happen, and security firm BitDefender, calls it — with apologies to Mary Shelley — "Frankenware."

The skeletal remains of a woman who died in 1995 have been discovered in a storage unit in Florida, according to police.

The Security Council began closed-door negotiations Friday on a new Arab-European draft resolution aimed at resolving the crisis in Syria, but Russia's envoy said he could not back the current language as it stands.

South Korean activists sent warm socks and messages of love attached to balloons toward North Korea Saturday, according to the AFP news agency.

Protesters hurled rocks at police who retaliated with tear gas in Senegal's capital Dakar on Friday after a top legal body said President Abdoulaye Wade could seek a third term.

France and Afghanistan agree NATO should speed up by a year its timetable for handing all combat operations to Afghan forces in 2013, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday, raising new questions about the unity of the Western military alliance.

U.S. officials say they have no plans for now to try to rescue an American hostage kidnapped over the weekend by Somali pirates.

Passengers who were on the Costa Concordia are being offered $14,460 apiece to compensate them for their lost baggage and psychological trauma after the cruise ship ran aground and capsized off Tuscany.

The world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday. In Great Britain there was a promise never to forget the genocide at Auschwitz during World War II.

Julia Gillard is on firm footing again. A blue suede shoe that she lost during a protest by aboriginal-rights activists has been returned.

Israel is proposing to essentially turn its West Bank separation barrier into the border with a future state of Palestine, two Palestinian officials said Friday, based on their interpretation of principles Israel presented in talks this week.

Pakistan's closure of major supply routes for U.S. and NATO supplies going to Afghanistan is costing the U.S. over $100 million per day. But relations between the two nations remain stuck at a standstill. NBC's Amna Nawaz reports from Peshawar.

As China expands its influence on the Mekong River, it is encroaching on a region dominated for decades by a much more profitable trade: narcotics.

Russian authorities are investigating whether demonstrations in favor of "clean elections" by Lego figures, stuffed dolls and other toys this month are legal, according to reports.

BAGHDAD -- Twenty-six people were killed on Friday when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car in southeastern Baghdad, Iraqi officials said. The attack occurred at 11:00 a.m. in the Iraqi capital's predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Zafaraniyah, police said.

The activist hacker group Anonymous attacked three Mexican government websites on Friday in protest at a proposed bill that seeks to toughen local laws about online file-sharing.

A new taste for eating elephant meat — everything from trunks to sex organs — has emerged in Thailand and could pose a new threat to the survival of the species.

A tourist bus collided with a parked vehicle in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Friday, injuring 13 cruise ship passengers after it went down an embankment, authorities said.

A shipment containing 16 kilograms of cocaine was seized last week at the U.N.'s mail intake center, a New York Police Department spokesman said Thursday.