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A Virginia woman has been charged with child abuse after authorities say she tried to calm a 3-month-old baby by administering the opiate methadone.

The Stanford marching band has been temporarily suspended through next spring after a panel found repeated violations of school policies.

Funeral services for one of two south Georgia police officers killed in the line of duty are planned for Sunday.

New York City's annual SantaCon event is on despite efforts by a community group to deter the holiday pub crawl by red-suited revelers.

The child-protection system in Texas should be revamped to better monitor adoptions and prevent a reoccurrence of the seven special-needs children found near Houston isolated and living in filthy conditions, child advocates say.

The wildfires that killed 14 people and tore through Gatlinburg also stole an iconic venue from this city at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains whose nickname is "the wedding capital of the South." All that remains of Cupid's Chapel of Love is a heart-shaped pink sign with the name spelled out in Barbie-doll-style cursive lettering.

Congress wrapped up the 114th session early Saturday, a tumultuous two years marked by the resignation of a House speaker, a fight over a Supreme Court vacancy, bipartisan bills on health care and education and inaction on immigration and criminal justice.

New York State troopers said Friday that a 20-year-old New York college student has been charged with killing a young volunteer firefighter after a year-long investigation.

Even as homicide rates have climbed in several U.S. cities, New York is on pace to have a near-record low number of shootings.

Defenders of a condemned inmate in Alabama are calling his execution an "avoidable disaster." For 13 minutes after he was sedated to avoid an unconstitutionally painful death, Ronald Bert Smith Jr. was seen coughing, gasping and moving.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Saturday that as many as 200 more American troops are being sent to Syria to help Kurdish and Arab fighters capture the Islamic State group's key stronghold of Raqqa.

Prosecutors are using Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof's own words to portray him as a cruel angry racist at his death penalty trial.

Kalamazoo police say they have made an arrest in Thursday night's shooting of a Western Michigan University student at an off-campus apartment.

To set foot in the Ghost Ship on a party night was to pass through the doors of an old warehouse and enter an exotic world glowing with rainbow lanterns, guarded by figures of Asian deities and pulsing with a welcoming vibe.

Police announced in a statement Friday that nine officers in a Dallas suburb have been fired for reporting traffic stops they never conducted.

Nine police officers in a Dallas suburb have been fired for reporting traffic stops they never conducted.

An appeals court has reversed two theft convictions against the ex-owner of an abandoned North Texas mortuary where bodies were found unattended in 2014.

New York City officials are blaming a crane collapse that killed a man in lower Manhattan in February on operator error.

Dylann Roof wanted the world to know he hated black people and thought they were criminals. He thought about attacking drug dealers, but they might shoot back. So, he told the FBI, he picked a historic black church in Charleston he had learned about online.

Authorities are investigating the deaths of four people whose bodies were found in suburban Houston in a car that had been set on fire.