Jon Schuppe

Law enforcement officers were called to the hotel where authorities say Sam Nordquist was tortured to death at least eight times throughout his captivity, sheriff’s office call records obtained by NBC News show.

For a month, seven people held Sam Nordquist captive in a small hotel room in upstate New York, torturing him to death, authorities said. How did it go on in secret?

New York authorities outlined an astonishing story of kidnap, torture and sexual assault in the killing of Sam Nordquist, a transgender man from Minnesota who was allegedly imprisoned in a small room of an upstate motel for a month before he died.

The University of North Texas Health Science Center's failure to obtain permission before using corpses for research may have violated state law, authorities said.

A Missouri woman with a long history of financial scams admitted Tuesday that she tried to steal Graceland from Elvis Presley’s family by posing as a fake investor, a scheme that created international intrigue before NBC News revealed her role.

Convinced a suspect was hiding evidence, police in Ohio ordered doctors at Mercy Health-Lorain Hospital to search his body cavity. The doctors refused.

A Texas lawmaker horrified by an NBC News investigation into a medical school that profited from the bodies of the poor moved this week to ban the practice.

One month after the Los Angeles wildfires, the public and California’s government are being forced to confront weaknesses in their approach to disasters.

An American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter collided over Washington, D.C., Wednesday night. All 67 people aboard the aircraft are presumed dead.

What happened inside the Army Black Hawk helicopter in the moments before the fatal crash is key to unraveling the disaster as plane collision investigations begin.

Investigators are beginning to explore how an American Airlines jet and Black Hawk Army helicopter collided over Reagan Washington National Airport.