Two Houston-area teens involved in the deadly shooting of a store clerk over a stolen bag of chips have turned themselves in to police, authorities said.
The Alexandria City Council voted to rename streets to honor the contributions of prominent African American figures in the city’s history and remove the names of Confederate figures.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district in North Carolina gave 225 teachers an unexpected bonus of $1,250, which official are requiring to be paid back because of an error.
Authorities in Georgia have announced the arrest of an 18-year-old accused of killing an 18-month-old boy. A family friend of the victim's father is now reacting.
The body of Anthony Rumplik, a 43-year-old man missing since last December, has been found inside the chimney of the Georgia house he was renting, authorities say.
Suspected murder-for-hire plotter Donna Adelson waived potential conflicts amid concerns about her lawyer, who represented her guilty son in a connected case.
Family and friends are clamoring for answers after Ricky Johnson, Clayton McGeeney and David Harrington died in below-freezing temperatures after watching the game.
California man Stephen Beal received 2 concurrent life sentences plus 30 years for blowing up his ex-girlfriend's spa business, killing her and injuring two others in the process.
Four of the 10 Las Vegas, Nevada, high school students involved in the deadly beating of their schoolmate in November have been indicted as adults on charges of second-degree murder.
Police in Garland, Texas, arrested an 18-year-old in connection with the shooting death of a man during a disturbance between neighbors, authorities said.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma death row inmate who claims innocence in a 1997 murder-for-hire case, officials say.
The Federal Bureau of Land Management wants to reduce the area on which recreational target shooting is permitted in Arizona's Sonoran Desert National Monument.
President Joseph Shepard of Western New Mexico University is facing scrutiny over spending, but students and faculty support him. School regents affirmed the value of work abroad.
Houston police have released a new sketch of the suspect in 17-year-old Louise Jean Wilson's December murder. Wilson was shot to death in a road-rage incident on I-45.
Authorities have identified a woman and her three adult daughters who were found shot to death in their suburban Chicago home in a domestic-related shooting.
Rescue teams in Killington, Vermont, helped save a group of 21 lost skiers and snowboarders before responding to a second call for two more lost skiers.
The annual Burning Beetle fest in South Dakota aims to raise awareness of the destructive impact of the mountain pine beetle on forest land in the Black Hills.
An Indiana house fire resulted in several injuries on Sunday, including a firefighter who fell through a floor. At least four people were rescued from the burning home.