Meredith Lowell, a Cleveland Heights, Ohio animal activist, is being charged with solicitation to commit murder. Lowell told an undervover FBI agent over Facebook that she would pay for someone wearing fur to be murdered outside of a library.

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Tom Martinez, mentor to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, dies at 67 in N. Calif.

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U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, right, speaks at an event welcoming 120 middle and high school students from across the country taking part in an interactive workshop called, "At the Crossroads: A History of the Blues in America" at the White House, Feb. 21, 2012 in Washington, DC.

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Argentine train slams into busy station during morning commute, killing 49 and injuring 100s

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The Academy Awards have their critics, of course, but being nominated for an Oscar is the pinnacle of the acting profession. The added prestige, power and salary a nomination brings make it hard to remember and imagine an actor's early roles. But we all have to start somewhere -- usually at the bottom. Here are some of this year's nominees' early roles.

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The fate of accused murderer George Huguely V is in the hands of a Charlottesville, Va. jury that began deliberations this morning. Two female alternate jurors were dismissed by the judge after being chosen at random, leaving a final jury made up of five women and seven men.

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17 wounded as Afghan police fire at anti-US protesters angry over Quran burning.

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Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has corrected misinformation regarding her investigation into the medical mystery in an upstate New York town where a group of teenagers has displayed symptoms similar to Tourette syndrome, saying that her research is still preliminary.

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An American and a French journalist were killed in the central Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday, the nineteenth day of intense shelling by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad bent on quashing a growing opposition. The deaths of American Marie Colvin and Frechman Remi Ochlik were confirmed by French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe. They come less than a week after New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid died in northern Syria from an asthma attack and a day after well-known Syrian opposition Rami al-Sayed journalist died in Homs. A Long Island native, Colvin wrote for the British Sunday Times. Like Shadid, she was considered one of the best foreign correspondents in the world, covering global conflicts for decades. Ochlik was a freelance photographer who recently won a 2012 World Press Photo prize for a photo from the Libyan revolution.

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