A bank robbery suspect surrendered and released 11 hostages, ending a dramatic armed standoff that lasted hours Thursday morning in Jacksonville, Fla., investigators confirmed.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say between 75 and 100 protesters turned out for a rally following a prosecutor's decision to clear an officer in the killing of a black man.
The Senate moved decisively Thursday to renew a decades-old sanctions law that lawmakers said gives the United States the clout to punish Iran should it fail to live up to the terms of the landmark nuclear deal.
A North Carolina school board has upheld the 10-day suspension of a high school teacher who stepped on an American flag during a First Amendment lesson.
Baltimore police on Wednesday released body camera footage of a shooting that left a man hospitalized after he threatened people with knives at a bus stop.
A Massachusetts woman charged with manslaughter after sending her boyfriend text messages encouraging him to take his own life has been dealt a setback.
A group of Chicago-area residents accused of stealing $60,000 worth of handbags in a brazen smash-and-grab in suburban St. Louis are suspected in similar crimes in three other states involving nearly $2 million in thefts and damage.
North Texas police say a teenager is charged with two counts of murder in the death of his adoptive parents at the home they shared south of Fort Worth.
A Connecticut man charged with killing his parents after they threatened to cut him out of their wills has been given another month to decide whether to take a plea deal.
The Latest on an Ohio Parole Board hearing on a mercy request from a man to be executed next year for the 1993 rape and killing of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter.
The widow of a slain St. Louis County posted a heart-wrenching picture on Instagram showing their 2-year-old son hugging two stuffed teddy bears made with his father’s uniform.