The New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 for their 27th World Series title. It’s the first time since 2000 they’ve been champions.

Authorities have identified one of 11 bodies found at a registered sex offender’s Cleveland, Ohio, home as Tonia Carmichael, a woman who was missing for about a year.

Tropical Storm Ida unleashed heavy rains as it neared Nicaragua’s coast early Thursday, with forecasters warning that it could make landfall in a few hours.

A 14-year-old California boy told police he drowned his 4-year-old neighbor on Friday because the child had threatened to tell his mother the older boy had molested him, according to an affidavit made public Wednesday.

Hillsborough County, Florida, Deputy Kenneth Moon was alone at his station at a county jail facility near Tampa when an inmate attacked him with no warning.