Knut the superstar polar bear turns two on Friday looking nothing like the button-eyed ball of white fluff who captured hearts around the world.

On the eve of superstar polar Bear Knut’s second birthday, fans are worried that he will have to leave his home in the Berlin Zoo, despite pleas he stay, because he is getting too big for his enclosure as he reaches maturity.

A truck-driving thief made off with more than $3 million worth of merchandise from a venerable maker of cowboy boots and other footwear, authorities said.

A looming federal investigation and possible trial is making it difficult for seven juvenile Florida boot camp guards and a nurse acquitted last year of state charges in the death of a 14-year-old boy to move on with their lives, their attorneys said.

During an emotional hearing in the House on Thursday, lawmakers and witnesses likened the treatment of teens in youth boot camps to the kind of torture faced by prisoners at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison.Investigators uncovered cases in which a program...

Ballet teacher Gayle Parseghian thought she might never dance again after a back injury while moving heavy furniture left her with unrelenting pain.But an intensive, four-week “boot camp” got the 55-year-old dancer from Toledo, Ohio, back to the barre....

The state attorney general said Tuesday his office cannot take any further legal action in the death of a teenager after he was roughed up by guards at a boot camp for juveniles.A jury in Panama City acquitted seven guards and a nurse of manslaughter...

Congressional investigators looking into the death of a student at a Missouri boot camp for troubled teens have referred the case to the FBI for further investigation.Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., said the Government Accountability Office made the...

About 700 protesters marched to the federal courthouse Tuesday to voice their outrage at the handling of a black teenager’s death at a boot camp.Shouting “we shall overcome” and “no justice, no peace,” the marchers made their way past the Capitol to...

Justice Department officials plan to meet with university protest organizers Wednesday as the federal authorities consider charges against seven juvenile boot camp guards and a nurse acquitted of state charges in the death of a 14-year-old boy.The...