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Amassed over three years, the Missouri Department of Social Services’ 373-page file on Lucas Barnes Webb provides a rare and extensive look into one boy’s life in the child welfare world, where workers and their supervisors made missteps and questionable judgments.

During a vigil Thursday evening to commemorate the death of her son, Rosilyn Temple was comforted by other mothers whose sons have been lost to violence.

Police say a shoplifter in metro Atlanta had particularly sticky fingers for deodorant sticks, stealing 195 of them from a Target store.

An auctioneer says one of Apple's first computers - a functioning 1976 model - has been sold for a record 516,000 euros .

Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin is SeaWorld Orlando's newest attraction. The ride transports families into a rarely seen, icy world to explore a massive penguin colony Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin is SeaWorld Orlando's newest attraction.

Editor's Note: Patch has 31 sites in Virginia and D.C., and not a day goes by that something weird isn't happening somewhere in the area.

They share the pain of losing a child to homicide and are now dedicated to putting a stop to Kansas City's violent crime.

A man who wears thong underwear and a cape while riding his scooter through Wisconsin's capital city may be a strange sight.

An anonymous thief has attempted to make up for years of beer theft by leaving a stack of $20 bills and an apology letter.

Sixty-three-percent of American women would rather lose one-thousand dollars than put on 20 pounds overnight, according to a new survey from the International Food Information Council.

The former president's yacht, the USS Williamsburg, has had one tow line in the grave for 20 years, about as long as it has been deteriorating at a shipyard in northern Italy.

Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in the American novelist's latest book has not gone down well with officials in the Philippine capital.

Finding a suitable low-note encore for losing a series at Houston is no easy task, but the Royals pulled it off Thursday night by becoming the first club to roll over for Angels right-hander Joe Blanton.

A s Evan Gattis was rounding the bases, soaking up the cheers from his first grand slam, he noticed the song blaring triumphantly from the speakers at Turner Field.

A man wanted for 13 years on attempted murder charges in Los Angeles was captured in Colorado after someone called police to report he was urinating on a wall outside a KFC restaurant.

Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an arrest warrant.

Three members of a Michigan city council have abstained from voting on a measure that would have prevented them from abstaining on future votes.

It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.

What do you do when two candidates running for mayor in the Philippines get exactly the same number of votes? You get them to toss a coin.

Operators at the Shimmy Club got the idea and then carried it out by putting in a two way mirror.