A West Virginia judge ruled in favor of an incarcerated atheist stating the state corrections agency cannot compel him to participate in religiously-affiliated programs.
A 20-year-old woman was arrested after a driving instructor discovered two young children inside her car near a dumpster by a suburban Detroit high school.
Celeste Burgess, 18, of Norfolk, Nebraska, was sentenced to 90 days in prison after following through with an illegal abortion with the help of her mother.
A man was found dead in a tent in southwestern Indiana after being fired at by a sheriff's deputy. Officers reportedly heard gunfire coming from the tent.
The parents of three murdered Portland women are speaking out after a "career criminal" was named as a person of interest in their cases, which police believe are linked.
San Francisco police have made arrests in the mass shooting outside a strip club in April, police said. One man was killed and three other people were injured in the shooting.
The USS Lexington Museum in Texas handed over a Japanese soldier's Good Luck Flag, carried during World War II, to a nonprofit organization for its return to the man's family.
A federal judge in Louisiana is planning to visit the Louisiana State Penitentiary to inspect a former death row building that is currently holding juvenile detainees.
Lawmakers announced that UFO whistleblower David Grusch will be among three UFO witnesses/whistleblowers who are set to testify before Congress next week.
A ride at the Taste of Antioch carnival in Illinois was seized after a 10-year-old boy suffered multiple facial fractures and a significant leg injury.
Former Arizona state legislator Shawnna Bolick has been appointed to fill the seat of former state senator Steve Kaiser on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.
A court-approved reenactment of the tragic 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida will be conducted as part of a civil lawsuit next month.
A 16-year-old worker, who was conducting sanitation operations at a poultry factory, died from injuries sustained in an undisclosed incident. Investigations into the death have begun.
During the first 10 days of a major mustang roundup in Nevada, nearly a dozen wild horses died, raising concerns about the use of helicopters to capture these animals on federal land.
A former police chief, his son-in-law and police officer, and his wife and city manager were indicted in Georgia for conspiring to illegally profit through their positions.
The former head of a longtime Atlanta, Georgia, vendor was sentenced to five years in a bribery case that stemmed from a federal investigation into state corruption.
Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne has informed the student body and faculty that he will be resigning at the end of next month following an independent review.
