A 37-year-old Toronto man was arrested Friday in Canada on suspicion of threatening Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his family.

U.S. Rep. Harry Mitchell said he has received death threats and his family has been harassed after he voted in favor of the health care overhaul bill.

WASHINGTON - Nothing quite like Russian missiles to stomp on a guy's big election buzz. Before Barack Obama even got up to savor a first day as president-elect, Russia threatened to station missiles alongside U.S.-ally Poland.

A gang member was arrested Saturday night after making death threats to officers who arrested him in connection with a street fight.

Police arrested a man Tuesday around 5 a.m. on suspicion of punching his dog about 12 times and making a death threat to a woman standing in her apartment doorway.

ASPEN, COLO. - Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Wednesday that the issue of illegal immigration angered people unlike no other, including the war in Iraq, and sparked unprecedented death threats against him.

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An unemployed Scottsdale electrician made death threats against a neighbor two weeks before killing the neighbor’s brother in a dispute about a barking dog, according to statements on a complete version of a 911 tape released Tuesday.

Four Apache Junction children saw their father shoot their mother three times after he threatened to commit suicide, police said in a report released Tuesday.

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Health officials plan to go door-to-door and tent-to-tent with mosquito-killing spray guns beginning Friday to head off a looming threat that one expert says could kill 100,000 more people around the tsunami disaster zone: malaria.

Police are investigating a series of death threats made against the lead organizer of the recent immigrant-driven marches in Phoenix.

Some are mentally ill, others self-described pranksters.

Apache Junction Councilman Joe Severs had been threatened in a dispute with an ex-employee and he wanted the city’s police to do something about it. They did. Quickly.

Apache Junction Councilman Joe Severs had been threatened in a dispute with an ex-employee and he wanted the city’s police to do something about it. They did. Quickly.

A man suspected of confronting and making death threats to two Mesa police officers was arrested Wednesday.

Three friends of Krystal Miller, the 15-year-old accused of planning a Columbine-style massacre at Gilbert High School, testified Tuesday that they didn’t take her seriously.

PENGZHOU, China - Earthquake survivors living downstream from lakes formed by blocked rivers were being evacuated for fears that aftershocks could unleash flooding, and the death toll from the disaster rose Friday to more than 55,000.

Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.

Add a name to the list of NBA title contenders, previously thought limited to the Spurs, Pistons, Heat, Suns and Mavericks.

Add a name to the list of NBA title contenders, previously thought limited to the Spurs, Pistons, Heat, Suns and Mavericks.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqis embraced democracy in large numbers Sunday, standing in long lines to vote in defiance of mortar attacks, suicide bombers and boycott calls. Pushed in wheelchairs or carts if they couldn't walk, the elderly, the young and women in veils cast ballots in Iraq's first free election in a half-century.

GENEVA - The world still faces a substantial threat of a flu pandemic and countries need to speed up preparations for a global outbreak, health experts said Tuesday.