HLN's Jane Velez- Mitchell explains why paramedics were called Lindsay Lohan's Los Angeles hotel room.
The University of West Georgia graduate student infected with rare "flesh-eating" bacteria has proven to be "amazingly resilient," her father said Wednesday, and a second apparent case has been reported.
The parents of Aimee Copeland, the victim of a flesh-eating bacteria, stay hopeful as their daughter is in the hospital.
Kelli Bordeaux a soldier stationed at Fort Bragg is missing and police suspect foul play.
Police seeking a missing Fort Bragg soldier Thursday concluded their search of a pond northeast of Fayetteville, North Carolina, saying no new leads were developed from the effort.
Mother of a missing soldier told HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell that "something doesn't add up" about her daughter's story.
Investigators will return to a North Carolina pond on Thursday morning as police continue their search for a missing Fort Bragg soldier, officials said.
Director Spike Lee issued an apology Wednesday night to a Florida couple who had to leave their home after he retweeted a message that erroneously listed their address as belonging to George Zimmerman.
Eight women filed a federal lawsuit taking on the military, alleging it is lax in confronting rape and assault charges.
Eight current and former U.S. service members filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging they were raped, sexually assaulted or harassed while serving in the military and were retaliated against once they reported the abuse.
Jane Velez-Mitchell talks to Marine Mammal Specialist Ric O'Barry about the troubling trend of dolphin deaths in Cape Cod.
Amy Winehouse's official cause of death: drinking. Jane Velez-Mitchell speaks to Popeater's Rob Shuter about the tragedy.
Authorities in North Dakota reached out Monday for the public's help in finding the body of a missing Montana teacher they believe is dead and buried in their area, offering a plea on the same day two men were in court in connection with the woman's disappearance.
Two people have been detained in the death of a 43-year-old Montana schoolteacher last seen six days ago while out on a morning jog, law enforcement agencies said Friday.
Police have one person in custody and are questioning another in the death of a Montana teacher.
For two and a half years, Samantha Garvey has immersed herself in New York's Long Island salt marshes -- prodding, examining and questioning, all in the name of science.
The husband of Sherri Arnold updates HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell on the search for his wife who disappeared January 7.
With time ticking by and an apparent dearth of clues, an eastern Montana family clung Thursday to hopes of finding a 43-year-old schoolteacher, last seen five days earlier out on a morning jog through her small town.
Jane Velez-Mitchell talks to the son of missing woman Karen Swift about the events surrounding her disappearance.
Authorities have launched a homicide investigation after identifying a body found in a rural western Tennessee county as that of Karen Swift, a mother of four last seen six weeks ago, authorities said.
Jane Velez-Mitchell speaks exclusively to the attorney for Lindsey Lowe, a woman accused of murdering her newborn twins.
Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against a Tennessee woman accused of smothering her newborn infants, officials said Thursday.
HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell covers the backlash following Kim Kardashian's divorce after just 72 days of marriage.
Jane Velez-Mitchell talks to Capt. Steve Young about the latest developments in the case of missing baby Lisa Irwin.
A Tennessee woman secretly gave birth to twin boys in a toilet in the home she shares with her parents and then smothered the infants and hid their bodies in a bedroom laundry basket, police said Friday.
The cast of 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' share how they are coping with the suicide of Russell Armstrong.
Russell Armstrong had no alcohol, prescription drugs or illegal substances in his body when he died last month, toxicology results released Wednesday by the coroner concluded.
HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell discusses a case involving a Philadelphia officer charged with raping a woman while on duty.
Two months after teacher Sylviane Lozada went missing, her friend Karen Wooley speaks exclusively to Jane Velez-Mitchell
Jane Velez-Mitchell talks to the mother of "Real Housewives" cast member Russell Armstrong about her son's suicide.
Spectators travel thousands of miles to get seats to watch the Casey Anthony trial. HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell reports.
While tickets to the Casey Anthony trial may be some of the hottest items in Orlando right now, at least 17 people are there because they have to be -- the jurors.
Even as she voiced guarded optimism about her son's recovery, the mother of a San Francisco Giants' fan beaten into a coma at Dodgers Stadium lashed out Thursday at those behind the attack -- as well as those who stood by, while it happened.
Two mothers expressed outrage Friday night that their young children -- about 1,000 miles away and days apart -- were inadvertently given alcohol by servers at franchises of national chain restaurants.
HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell talks with Nate Phelps, the son of the pastor who founded the Westboro Baptist Church.
What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.
What's more shocking than the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl? The fact that some people are actually blaming the little girl.
Mexican investigators believe reality TV producer Bruce Beresford-Redman struck his wife's head with a stick, bat or metal tube before strangling her and dumping her body at a Cancun resort last year, according to documents filed this week in his extradition case.
HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell details her lifetime struggle with addiction in her book 'Addict Nation.'
Kyla Porter left her sister's Florida residence on February 15, 2008, and hasn't been seen since.
A doctor is accused of killing newborn babies during illegal abortions. HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell reports.
Detroit police confirmed Wednesday they have a person in custody in the city's serial rapist case.
A Colorado woman told authorities she was using Facebook in another room when her infant son drowned in a bathtub, according to an arrest affidavit.
While saying he believes just one man is responsible, Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee said Monday that authorities have detained nine men as part of their hunt for a serial rapist.
The FBI has joined the search for a 16-year-old girl who went missing while visiting siblings in Baltimore, Maryland, police said Tuesday.
The head of one of America's biggest animal protection organizations said Thursday that Michael Vick, who served prison time for his role in a deadly dogfighting operation, should have the opportunity to bring a dog home -- in due time.
In a new interview, Michael Vick says that he would like to own a dog, despite his past animal cruelty legal woes.
They say Michael Vick is trying to redeem himself. The NFL superstar who participated in a dog-fighting ring that shot, electrocuted, drowned and slammed dogs to the ground now wants to bring home a dog as a pet.
NFL quarterback Michael Vick says he is interested in owning a dog again despite his legal woes over animal cruelty.
A California woman stabbed repeatedly by her then-boyfriend, a comedic Hollywood actor, on Friday described his courtroom antics explaining his violence as "very surreal and bizarre" -- and, above all, insincere.
The ex-girlfriend of "40 Year Old Virgin" actor speaks to "Issues." Shelley Malil was sentenced for stabbing her.
When she saw a Dayton, Ohio, police officer tangled up with a man, Angela Pierce could have kept on driving. Instead, she got out of the car to team up with the officer and join the fight.
A transgender woman is asking for a temporary restraining order against a California Department of Motor Vehicles employee who allegedly wrote her a letter condemning her to hell.
A California man who spent a month on the run with his 15-year-old niece is now in a San Francisco jail, and the girl is back home with her parents, according to police and relatives.
HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell brings you the stories of five parents whose children were abducted.
"The world is really big when you're looking for a teeny little girl," said Erin Runnion, describing the helplessness she felt after her child was abducted.
A Rutgers University student commits suicide after being emotionally violated when his sexual encounter with another man is secretly streamed online. Tyler Clementi jumps in the Hudson River, and there is a general outcry accompanied by a superficial soul searching.
Despite the grisly slaying of the Mexican government's lead investigator, the search for an American reported missing in a lake straddling the border will go on, U.S. and Mexican authorities vowed Wednesday.
The widow of a man allegedly killed by Mexican pirates says she is willing to take a polygraph test.
Mexican authorities have bolstered their search for a missing U.S. citizen and the government rejects assertions that security forces aren't doing enough to find him, the foreign ministry said Friday.
Jane Velez-Mitchell on the suicide of a Rutgers student after his roommate put video of him having sex online.
A former Methodist pastor accused of staging a car wreck to cover up his wife's killing had performed marriage counseling for the woman whose husband's suicide eventually led to his arrest, the dead man's niece said Wednesday.
Some Americans spent Friday night worrying about their next mortgage payment. Many prayed for loved ones serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Others continued to clean up spilled oil in the U.S. Gulf.
Las Vegas Police say Paris Hilton dropped a bag of cocaine in view of an officer while getting lip balm from her purse.
An Indiana man awaiting sentencing on a rape charge tried to blackmail his ex-girlfriend into coming back to him by threatening to spread nude photos and video of her online, police in Pennsylvania said.
A Georgia family whose daughter was killed is battling to get her 9-month-old child back from state custody in New York, where her estranged husband left the baby with relatives after her slaying.
Police say two morbidly obese girls were found living in a filthy, bug-infested home. Jane Velez-Mitchell reports.
The husband of a Texas woman missing since March has a "watertight alibi," his lawyer tells HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell.
The husband of a Texas woman missing since March has a "completely watertight alibi" on the day his estranged wife disappeared, his lawyer said Wednesday.
County coroner's officials in Los Angeles, California, hope to release results Thursday morning of their examination of skeletal remains found in a remote area of Malibu Canyon.
Authorities in Yavapai County, Arizona, said Wednesday that remains found a day earlier in the area are those of "a small child," and they are acting on the assumption that the body belongs to Sylar Newton, a 2-year-old boy missing for more than two weeks.
The mother of a 4-year-old girl snatched from the front yard of her small-town Missouri home tried to chase after her daughter's abductor, a neighbor said Tuesday.
Police say they have linked a college student's killer to a 2005 sexual assault. Jane Velez-Mitchell reports.
Forensic evidence links the cases of a Virginia Tech student believed slain in October and the kidnapping and sexual assault of another woman four years earlier, state police announced Thursday.
The boyfriend of a missing Arizona woman is being held without bond on fraud and other charges while police seek additional information into his girlfriend's disappearance, Chandler police said Tuesday.
Jamie Laiaddee's boyfriend didn't report her missing for two months. What might he know about her disappearance?
The days of man vs. nature are over. Today, with environmental catastrophes a daily occurrence, the interests of animals and humans dovetail as never before. It's not either them or us. We're both facing the same monstrous threat.
Dauphin Island, Alabama, wages a war against the oil spill at sea. CNN's Reynolds Wolf reports.
The mother of Julie Ann Gonzalez tells HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell her daughter met another man before she vanished.
Bret Michaels' "sheer will to live" kept him alive long enough last week to allow doctors to stabilize his condition after he suffered a massive brain hemorrhage, his neurosurgeon said Friday.
Jane Velez-Mitchell says the racing industry should stop thousands of thoroughbreds from being slaughtered for meat.
It's racing season in America! The Kentucky Derby is this weekend. Then it's the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes. Get out the fancy party hats and pop the champagne!
Chelsea King, 17, was a straight-A student, a high school track star and she loved to volunteer. Now, she's been killed, the latest victim of what you could call "junk justice."
Addiction in America has a new face: prescription drugs. Last year, prescription drugs replaced heroin and cocaine as the leading cause of deadly overdoses.
When it comes to animal exploitation -- follow the money. Using animals for entertainment is big business, plain and simple. The killer whale Tilikum has helped SeaWorld sell millions of dollars worth of tickets.
CNN's Randi Kaye reports on why OSHA recanted a report warning of killer whale attacks at SeaWorld.
The murder of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu in Tracy, California, has brought America's Amber Alert program under the microscope. Sandra vanished in broad daylight on March 27.
Ten years ago, teen Daniel Giddings shot a man during an attempted robbery and was sentenced to six to 12 years in prison.
Jane Velez-Mitchell talks to an alleged mistress of Tiger Woods who claims the 120 racy texts she posted online are his.
Although Corey Haim's heart was enlarged and he had fluid in his lungs, the coroner's chief investigator says a drug overdose has not been ruled out as the cause of the actor's death.
HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell says it's demented for Hustler magazine to want to publish graphic crime scene photos.
HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell says loopholes in the criminal justice system allow some sex offenders to roam free.
Chelsea King, 17, was a straight-A student, a high school track star and she loved to volunteer. Now, she's been killed, the latest victim of what you could call "junk justice."
Police in Vancouver, Canada, say they have "received a substantial amount of tips and information" in their search for Andrew Koenig, who is best known for his role on the 1980s sitcom "Growing Pains."
A former Playboy model's body is found burned beyond recognition in a Miami dumpster. HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell reports.
HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell talks with Nancy Grace about 'iWant' and her struggles with addiction.
This is the story of my ch . . . ch . . . changes, which took me from insanity to clarity, from egocentricity to altruism, from alcoholism to activism. These changes have marked an evolution in what I want from this life.


