The leader of one of New Jersey's largest mosques took the stand in court Tuesday to defend himself against charges he lied on his green card application.
A white police officer will not be charged in a shooting that left an unarmed black motorist paralyzed and sparked protests in Iowa's second largest city, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Seven special-needs teenagers living near Houston were repeatedly locked away in a closet by their adoptive mother and restricted to a lone room strewn with human waste, state and county officials said Tuesday.
Police said Tuesday that a Las Vegas smoke shop worker was arrested on a murder charge for fatally shooting an unarmed 13-year-old who ran into the shop to steal items last week.
A Fort Worth man is accused of using a zip tie and a hacksaw to kill a Texas Woman’s University student and leaving her dismembered and burned body in a plastic kiddie pool, indictment records show.
A judge has declined to suppress statements made by a woman charged with crashing into spectators at the Oklahoma State homecoming parade and killing four.
Hundreds of protesters fighting the Dakota Access pipeline were facing a blast of brutal weather on Tuesday, digging in their heels despite temperatures sinking well below freezing with winds gusting to 50 mph.
A Manhattan judge has sprung the hard-partying beauty who drew swarms of cops to the Gramercy Park Hotel last week after flashing a collection of BB guns during a livestreamed party — telling the brunette to “stay out of trouble” after she spent the entire appearance goofing off.
A military prison psychologist has refused to recommend that Chelsea Manning's gender be changed to female in her Army service record, complicating the transgender soldier's quest to wear a feminine hairstyle at the men's prison where she is serving a 35-year sentence for leaking classified information, according to a court document.
A 13-year-old girl who shot and critically wounded a couple in their 70s at a suburban St. Louis beauty supply store has pleaded guilty in family court.
A police officer accused of slapping a man who was wearing a bunny costume and was blowing an air horn inside a police station has been charged with assault.
The United States faces its highest threat from Islamist terrorists since 9/11 and much of that stems from those radicalized at home, according to the House Homeland Security Committee’s December Terror Threat Snapshot released Tuesday.
A young Pennsylvania man convicted of stabbing his older brother to death following an argument over cigarettes has been sentenced to six to 15 years in prison.
The Latest on a deadly shooting in southeast Albuquerque (all times local): Noon Albuquerque police say three children were killed and their mother is in critical condition after a gunman shot them when they arrived home Monday night.
A high school science class that set out to study trees got a chemistry lesson instead, when it found a plastic bottle that turned out to be a "one-pot meth lab," police said.
Police are looking to question the ex-con former boyfriend of the freshly minted city correction officer fatally shot in Brooklyn while sitting in her parked car, law-enforcement sources said Monday.