The owner of a missing dog has received a ransom note threatening to kill his pet if her fails to pay $100. The owner, Kelley Borland, told local news station KMGH the note came in a bag of dog feces.

The driver of a stolen car who rammed into a crowd of pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip Wednesday now faces murder charges. Police say he intentionally plowed into the crowd, killing two people and injuring dozens of others.

An HIV-positive ex-convict, who admitted to attempting to kill several police officers and a psychiatric hospital employee by biting them or spitting blood in their faces, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. Robert Murray, 33, was not in court when state Supreme Court Justice William A. Wetzel imposed the sentence. Murray says the Hannibal Lecter-type restraints the judge ordered him to wear were "humiliating," refusing to wear them to court.

A Connecticut woman is charged Tuesday with risk of injury to a minor for allegedly leaving her 15-month-old grandson unattended in her home while taking her dog on an errand. Police say Loretta McGill-White, 48, left the toddler unattended in a crib. She did not return home until about 40 minutes after police and state child welfare officials arrived at her home.

A lovesick Pakistani faces up to three years in jail for falsely charging a brother and a cousin of the woman he wishes to marry of planning a suicide attack on the U. S. consulate in Karachi. Jobless laborer Mohammad Imran triggered a security panic when he made a hoax call to the U. S. embassy in Islamabad last month after relatives barred him from meeting or speaking to the woman.