Trial has begun for a Kentucky man accused by authorities of killing his former girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter and disposing of her body inside a well.
Hoping to preserve its marijuana law under the next president, Colorado is planning a slate of legislation designed to crack down on pot that is grown legally but then sold on the black market.
Military leaders are trying to fix the lengthy, inconsistent process for investigating senior officers accused of misconduct, The Associated Press has learned.
New York City police say they've arrested a man accused of trying to stab another passenger in a fight over a charging outlet on a Staten Island Ferry.
Dylann Roof sat quietly as the lead prosecutor in his death penalty trial described Wednesday how he allegedly opened fire on a dozen members of a Charleston church who had welcomed him to a bible study.
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, whose last command included oversight of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, to run the Department of Homeland Security, people close to the transition team said Wednesday.
Authorities investigating the California warehouse party fire that killed 36 people have said they are considering a criminal case — even murder charges.
The man who killed New Orleans Saints star Will Smith during a traffic dispute sounded "evil" and showed no remorse as he shouted taunts at the slain man's body, a witness to the shooting testified Wednesday.
Detroit authorities investigating the shooting death of a Wayne State University police officer found video of the man accused in the killing at a different location at the time of the incident that eliminates him as a suspect, a local reporter tweeted on Wednesday.
The driver of a Baltimore school bus that last month plowed into a transit bus, killing six people, including himself, was going nearly double the speed limit, had a history of seizures and was involved in a dozen previous crashes, investigators said Wednesday.
The former stepmother of missing Oregon boy Kyron Horman was charged with theft after police in California found her with a gun that belonged to a roommate.
A social studies textbook that says some slaves in Connecticut were cared for like family members is being pulled from fourth-grade classrooms in Norwalk.
The president of the University of Connecticut says the school will do all it can to support students who do not have legal immigration status even though it can't become a sanctuary campus.