A 16-year-old student at a high school in Utah stabbed five classmates in the boys' locker room Tuesday, then stabbed himself before police took him into custody, school officials said.
The Archdiocese of Baltimore has been paying settlements to people who accused a priest of sexually abusing them decades ago at Archbishop Keough High School.
A Georgia death row inmate scheduled for execution this week should be asked whether he wants an appeal filed on his behalf, lawyers for the state argued in a court filing Tuesday.
The prosecution of the nephews of Venezuela's first lady has taken a blow as the U.S. government told its star witness his cooperation deal is getting torn up for his lies.
A Christian university in Texas says some students no longer attend the school after images were posted online of a white student in blackface exclaiming: "I'm a strong black woman." A student wearing an Abilene Christian University shirt and shorts is seen with her face covered in black.
The jury in the murder trial of a white former South Carolina patrolman who shot an unarmed black motorist saw a bystander's dramatic cellphone video of the shooting frame by frame Tuesday.
The University of Virginia president is defending her use of Thomas Jefferson quotations after a group of students and professors criticized her, saying Jefferson shouldn't be used as a "moral compass" because he was a slave owner.
A young police officer who was fatally struck by a stolen car carrying three teens was remembered Monday as a loyal, funny man who grew up wanting to be a cop.
A Pennsylvania man who spent four years in prison for beating his girlfriend at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem is suing the casino for allegedly serving him too many free drinks before the assault.
A woman in Iowa who streamed video live on Facebook showing her berating police in a cafe last week got a calm reaction from the officers, but critics called it "vulgar," "narcissistic" and full of hatred.
More than 100 dogs have been killed by two Detroit police officers during the course of their careers, one of the starkest examples of what critics call “puppycide,” Reason reported on Tuesday.