North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has commuted the sentence of a man imprisoned since his teenage years for a 1999 second-degree murder, burglary and robbery case.
A federal judge is considering whether Alabama should be allowed to use nitrogen gas for the nation's first execution of this method after a lawsuit challenging the plan.
From Southern California's first-ever tropical storm warning to wildfire smoke smothering cities in the Northeast, here are five of the wildest weather moments of 2023.
People between the ages of 15 and 19 were three times more likely to die by homicide in 2020 and 2021 than in the 1960s, according to a new Council on Criminal Justice report.
A bill that would move local New York elections to even-numbered years could upend local elections as candidates compete for attention against high-profile elections, lawyer says.
Hollywood arrests in 2023 include Marvel star Jonathan Majors, the son of movie producer Sam Haskell and a comedian found passed out after a Thanksgiving standup.
Former La Vergne, Tennessee, police officer Lewis Powell filed a lawsuit against the city, arguing he was unfairly treated due to his race amid a recent sex scandal.
If Superintendent Ryan Walters' proposal passes, Oklahoma will become the first state to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs from its K-12 public school system.
A college student from American University in Washington, D.C. was robbed of his expensive Canada Goose winter jacket while riding his bicycle in broad daylight.
A California federal judge has temporarily blocked a law that would ban people from carrying firearms in most public places and championed by state Democrats.
Former Detroit police officer Juwan Marquise-Alexander Brown is charged with manslaughter in the death of a 71-old-man whom he allegedly punched to the ground during an altercation.
A group of retail thieves stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from a Washington D.C. Chanel store during a smash-and-grab robbery, police said.
Hardy Lloyd, 45, of Follansbee, West Virginia, has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for threatening the jury and witnesses at Tree of Life shooter Robert Bowers' trial.
