Defendants who were charged after a 1-year old overdosed while at a day care in the Bronx appeared in court Tuesday to face a judge in a pre-trial hearing.
Patrick Kearon, the newest member of the governing body of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said the church must better care for victims of sexual abuse.
Ami Bera and Mario Díaz-Balart, the co-chairs of the U.S. Congressional Taiwan Caucus, made their first visit to Taiwan, following its presidential election.
Two hospitals and 19 clinics in western Wisconsin are set to close, raising concerns among residents and local officials about the impact on health care services.
Memphis' police chief has been moved to an interim position as the city grapples with distrust and record homicide rates. The mayor has defended the interim police chief.
A Minnesota state trooper has been charged with second-degree unintentional murder and and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of a motorist during a traffic stop.
A 41-year-old man from Vermont has been charged with possessing a bomb and leaving it at his former residence after being evicted, federal prosecutors say.
A man’s dismembered body including his severed head were found stuffed in a refrigerator and freezer inside a Brooklyn apartment on Monday, according to reports.
Fort Worth school district has apologized and says they are investigating after porn interrupted a meeting Monday night involving sex-education curriculum.
A fifth person was at the Jan. 7 Kansas City Chiefs watch party at Jordan Willis' home that preceded the mysterious deaths of David Harrington, Clayton McGeeney and Ricky Johnson.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is calling for Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to stop using a real groundhog during the annual Groundhog Day celebration.
A mother filed a lawsuit against Starbucks and Pittsburgh Public Schools after her intellectually disabled daughter was allegedly led off school grounds and sexually assaulted.
Native American tribes of the Great Basin are lobbying the government to make Bahsahwahbee, a desert oasis in Nevada, into a national monument to commemorate past massacres at the site.
Arkansas Citizens for Transparency, a group aiming to establish constitutional protection for access to public documents and meetings, has sued Attorney General Tim Griffin.
A divided federal court has rejected the attempt to revive the lawsuit of Priscilla Villarreal, an online citizen journalist from Texas known as La Gordiloca.
A New York jury on Tuesday found Kevin Monahan guilty in the fatal shooting of Kaylin Gillis, who turned up the wrong driveway on her way to a party last year.
Wisconsin police shot and fatally wounded an armed suspect who fired at officers at the Maritime Bar during a response to a weapons complaint on Tuesday.
Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik, a veteran New Jersey sheriff, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a local restaurant restroom on Tuesday. He leaves behind a wife and four adult children.