A jail escapee who set off a manhunt near Virginia Tech's campus by killing a hospital guard and a  sheriff's deputy was sentenced to death Monday despite pleas for leniency.

An alleged gangster has been sentenced to death for fatally shooting a popular mayor because he was angry at not being compensated for his damaged car.

A surgeon wrote a scathing letter to Western Health officials last year linking the death of a patient to an "unsafe" surgical services situation in Stephenville.

Studs Terkel, the Pulitzer-prize winning US author, activist and radio personality who created a vast oral history of 20th century American society, died Friday at his Chicago home, the radio station where he spent the bulk of his career said.

The official death toll from Myanmar's devastating May 3 cyclone has climbed to 43,318, state television reports. The figure was broadcast Thursday night and was almost 5,000 more than the number released Wednesday by the military government. The number