A Northern California woman has been charged killing a woman and her wife, and the teenage son of one of the victims before setting fire to the family's home to destroy evidence.
A Minnesota police officer who shot and killed a black man during a traffic stop in suburban St. Paul this summer has been charged with second-degree manslaughter.
Police said bloody clues suggested foul play after a 26-year-old man from Connecticut went to party at a luxury apartment in New York City over the weekend -- then vanished.
Police in Kansas released some dramatic video Monday showing a quick-thinking officer dodging to avoid an out-of-control car on an interstate before it crashed.
An Oberlin College professor whose anti-Semitic social media rants stoked controversy and angered alumni was fired from the Ohio liberal arts school Tuesday after “extensive consideration” by the Board of Trustees.
A judge has thrown out a man's lawsuit accusing a Pennsylvania casino of serving him too many free drinks before he beat his girlfriend, an assault for which he spent four years in prison.
An attorney for a Houston man accused of fatally shooting a sheriff's deputy at a gas station last year said Wednesday he disagrees with a state mental hospital's finding that his client is competent to stand trial and the issue will likely end up having to be decided by a jury.
The Utah teenager suspected of stabbing five high school classmates in a boys' locker room before turning the knife on himself Tuesday was a straight-A student with no record of disciplinary trouble, police said.
The Texas Board of Education has unanimously rejected a Mexican-American studies textbook that experts say is rife with factual errors and anti-Hispanic bias.
Prosecutors announced Wednesday a Minnesota police officer has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the July shooting death of Philando Castile in a St. Paul suburb.
Authorities say two trains loaded with coal and phosphate rock collided in central Florida, derailing and sending at least 20 train cars tumbling over.
A red light camera executive who bribed Chicago and Ohio officials last week got her own chance before an unsympathetic judge, who doubled her prison time to 30 months and imposed a staggering, $2 million fine.