Prosecutors are calling it "a house of horrors."

Swallowed ring recovered by NH police... Police say homeless man sets Calif. man on fire... 2 missing in avalanches east of Seattle... Classmates remember Maine hermit as quiet, nerdy... Trials set for social workers in NC child's death... Amid investigation, coal exports at record levels

President Barack Obama's budget would raise Medicare premiums for individual retirees making more than $85,000 and couples making more than $170,000.

New details emerge in deadly Afghan attack... Volcano spews ash in central Mexico... Goal of nuclear-free NKorea tests US, China ties... Investigators probe Lion Air crash in Bali... China WHO chief: Beijing Bird Flu case not surprising... Puerto Rico protects premier turtle nesting site... Poland unveils giant statue of John Paul II

Pilot OK after crashing small plane in Ala. lake... Ala trying to regulate payday loan and pawn industries... Carnival: No reimbursement to US for disabled ship... Once-captive panther adjusting to life in the wild... Women deny hiding gun seized in Ga. baby killing... Goats in Athens...

Today is Sunday, April 14, the 104th day of 2013. There are 261 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington. April 14, 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship's time and began sinking. (The ship went under two hours and 40 minutes later with the loss of 1,514 lives.)

President Barack Obama wants NASA to start work on finding a small asteroid that could be shifted into an orbit near the moon and used by astronauts as a stepping-stone for an eventual mission to Mars, agency officials said on Wednesday (April 10).

The obesity rate seems to have slowed in the past decade… particularly among women and girls.

A study also found teens and 20-somethings who use indoor tanning booths increase their risk of melanoma 75 percent.

Cigarette smoking is on the decline in America.

In Noxubee County, a tornado destroyed some mobile homes, uprooted trees and overturned an 18-wheeler on Thursday (4/11.) There was damage in Shuqualak, Macon and Prairie Point.

Heavy rain and some severe storms moved through the wiregrass late Thursday evening.

A fisherman in Hawaii has quite the fish tale.

Sandy is being retired from the list of tropical storm names because of the catastrophic damage its massive size and strength caused along the East Coast last year.

Sandy is being retired from the list of tropical storm names because of the catastrophic damage its massive size and strength caused along the East Coast last year.

It goes against popular belief, but a recent study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) shows that the southern region of the United States is not the fattest part of the country.

The possibly tainted products were packed Feb. 27 and shipped for distribution and to retail deli stores in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Oklahoma, Illinois and Tennessee.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is defending President Barack Obama's proposed cuts to the military as the Pentagon faces deficit-driven smaller budgets.

Federal authorities say a Connecticut gun shop that legally sold weapons used in the Newtown school shootings lost its federal firearms license after the December massacre because of hundreds of violations over the past several years.

In the video above, News 4 Meteorologist Chris Havely discusses the potential for strong and severe thunderstorms in the area for today.

Google announced Austin, Texas will be the next city to get its ultra-high-speed fiber network.

Students and staff at Sacramento State in California are doing more than just shaping up when they step on an exercise machine.

President Barack Obama's budget plan would increase taxes by $580 billion over the next decade, but it relies on many proposals that have been repeatedly rejected by Congress.

Heavy gusts of wind and rain surged through the St. Louis area Wednesday evening, leaving severe damage in its path.

A new government report challenges a pillar of planning for disasters at American nuclear power plants.