A woman found dead with her two sons in Colorado bought a handgun the day before, investigators said Thursday, adding that the weapon turned up at the scene of the crime.
Three weeks after Sherri Papini disappeared, the question of whether she was dead or alive was answered when the young wife and mother was spotted waving frantically for help along a California freeway on Thanksgiving morning.
An Ohio State administrator is being criticized for urging compassion for the Somali-born student who injured 11 people in a car-and-knife attack on campus before he was shot to death by police.
An Alabama inmate is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his upcoming execution to consider whether a judge should have been able to give him a death sentence when the jury recommended life imprisonment.
Accusations of an on-campus sex assault have pointed a negative light on a San Francisco Bay Area Catholic high school with a nationally recognized football program.
A Detroit man accused of amassing weapons and buying explosives has been hit with new charges, including an allegation that he intended to kill someone and destroy property.
The Supreme Court will decide whether some of the nation's largest health providers can rely on their church affiliations to avoid complying with federal laws covering pension benefits for workers.
A year after two self-radicalized terrorists stormed the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Calif., and killed 14 innocent people, a green fence, erected in the days after the attack, still encircles the conference room where the shooting took place.
An Oklahoma appeals court has thrown out the life sentence given to a teenager who was convicted of fatally shooting an Australian baseball player three years ago.
The wildfire that popped up on a steep, rugged peak in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was just one of a dozen that fire crews had been fighting over the last month because of the drought.
A part-time math instructor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas promised to alert immigration agents if he learns that any of his students are undocumented.
As San Bernardino, Calif., marked one year after the massacre that killed 14 people there, some of the 22 wounded said they still faced a long road to recovery, and needed more aid from health officials.
President-elect Donald Trump has formed an advisory group of more than a dozen CEOs and business leaders to offer input on how to create jobs and speed economic growth.
One of five people charged in a deadly house explosion that devastated an Indianapolis neighborhood has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit arson.
The Latest on the trial of a white former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting of an unarmed black motorist (all times local): 12:55 p.m.