Francisco Daniel Aguilar insisted at his Utah sentencing Monday that he did not plan to kill his 16-year-old girlfriend, Jacqueline "Jacky" Nunez, before he shot her in the head.
The Florida National Guard says it has mobilized units for “search and rescue", “security missions" and other assistance following the landfall of Hurricane Idalia.
A Virginia man was arrested after police found a body during a search for 20-year-old Avriel Hooks, who police say vanished under "suspicious" circumstances.
Local and federal authorities have arrested Arkansas fugitive Samuel Hartman, who was convicted of raping a minor in 2013 and escaped prison last August with help from family.
A Colorado man who had been charged with murder and evidence tampering after calling 911 to report his girlfriend's death in July has been cleared after the El Paso County Coroner's Office uncovered evidence that the girlfriend he was accused of strangling had actually hanged herself.
The Supreme Court of New Mexico will hear arguments in December over the constitutionality of multiple abortion-ban ordinances spanning much of the eastern state.
A tribal ranger with the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe reservation is under review after using his car to break up a climate protest blocking miles of traffic in Nevada.
The head of the EPA, which vetoed an Alaskan Pebble Mine proposal in January, said he fully supports the decision to protect the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery.
A judge has released Chicago man Francisco Benitez who spent the last three decades in prison for a double-murder conviction. Benitez claimed that detectives framed him for murder.
Nearly 20,000 petition backers are urging New Mexico State University to bar Alexee Trevizo, who is accused of murdering her infant at a hospital, from campus.
Southern California jewelry store owner Samuel Babikian said a group of thieves pepper-sprayed him before robbing his store of $500,000 worth of merchandise in broad daylight.
A man, who said he found a bag full of cash in a parking lot in May, has been charged with larceny. The missing cash belonged to the town of Trumbull, Connecticut.
Two Montana men killed a mama grizzly bear in self-defense after they surprised it and a cub while scouting near the Smokey Range Trailhead in the Flathead National Forest.
A Long Island, New York, man faces murder charges after a man he is accused of attacking and urinating on, died of injuries sustained in the alleged assault.