TORONTO, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Alexandria Minerals Corporation (TSX-V: AZX) (Frankfurt: A9D) (US: ALXDF) reported today that it has deepened its high grade gold deposit at Akasaba in Val d'Or, Quebec, ...

Adam Mayes Took 'Coward's Way Out' in Suicide, Mother-in-Law Says

GUNTOWN, Miss. -- Hope was fading that two young sisters abducted from their Tennessee home would be found alive two weeks after they vanished: Their kidnapper had already killed their mother and sister, and he was armed with a pistol as officers closed in.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Florida man was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that swindled hundreds of victims out of $8 million.

Terrence Jennings didn't get started in taekwondo because he loved the sport or because his parents encouraged him. He didn't start practicing taekwondo because he saw the Olympic Games or because he had a real-life childhood hero.

In Egypt's second city economic worries trump politics

BOSTON (Reuters) - Just hours before Facebook Inc made its stock market debut last Friday, Seuk Kim put in a limit order $4 above the initial public offering price. "I thought it was going to have that first day pop," Kim said. "I didn't think anyone would get in at the $38 IPO price." Limit orders give investors a measure of protection because the stock is eligible to be purchased at or below ...

For Egypt's most conservative Islamists, the country's first competitive presidential election has been a test of their political savvy as they try to plant the seeds for turning the country into an Islamic state.

A motorist "could have or should have" spotted 18-year-old longboard skater Alexandria Rice about 350 feet away — longer than a football field — along the stretch of Heim Road where she was fatally struck, an accident reconstruction investigator testified Monday.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 (UPI) -- More than 55 percent of U.S. adults lose or break their sunglasses each year, putting their eyes at risk of sunburn or eye disease, eye experts say.