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Suspects in criminal cases across the U.S. can sometimes find themselves with a daunting choice even if they didn't do anything wrong: go to trial and face a potentially long prison sentence or plead guilty in return for lesser punishment.

The U.S. approach to Asia faces a major overhaul when Donald Trump takes office, but what will take its place? A new report warns of a leadership vacuum and even a nuclear arms race if the U.S. withdraws from a region threatened by a provocative North Korea.

Police say they've arrested a man accused of firing a gunshot that panicked hundreds of people at a New York mall over the weekend.

Police say an Ohio State University student shoved a man down a flight of stairs during an anti-Donald Trump rally on the Columbus campus.

A man convicted as a teen in the case featured in "Making a Murderer" faces a deadline to tell authorities where he plans to live now that a judge has ordered his release.

A fundraising campaign has been launched to save the damaged gravestone of Benjamin Franklin at the Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia.

A Denver man who spent more than a quarter of a century in prison for a rape he long denied committing was acquitted of the crime on Monday, leaving a courtroom to applause from supporters and chants of "it's over."

A Michigan police officer suspended after flying a Confederate flag from his pickup during a political rally has resigned.

The Latest on arrest of a woman accused of killing her twin sister when she drove off a Maui cliff.

Reported hate crimes against Muslims rose in 2015 to their highest number since the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to FBI statistics released Monday.

The president of the Chili's restaurant chain says the manager who took away a veteran's free Veterans Day meal has been "removed" from the job.

Columbia University says it has stopped its wrestling team from competing while it investigates text messages sent by several of its team members.

A Maine farm charged with manslaughter in a fatal Halloween-themed hayride crash has reached a plea agreement that'll end the criminal case against it.

Jurors in the murder trial of a former South Carolina police officer heard testimony Monday that the white officer's initial account of the shooting of an unarmed black motorist contradicted what a cellphone video of the shooting shows.

Police say they've arrested a man accused of firing a gunshot that panicked hundreds of people at a New York mall over the weekend.

The Army Corps of Engineers on Monday said it has finished a review of the disputed Dakota Access pipeline but wants more study and tribal input before deciding whether to allow it to cross under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota.

Authorities in central Pennsylvania have charged 13 people in connection with disturbances following Penn State's upset over No.

Two men who cooperated with authorities investigating a Minnesota-based conspiracy to join the Islamic State group in Syria were rewarded with light sentences Monday, but a third who chose not to help prosecutors got a 10-year sentence from a federal judge who still cut him a break partly because his parents have become active in the campaign against terrorist recruiting within the state's large Somali community.

A Pennsylvania painter injured when he fell into the 500,000-gallon tank of a municipal water tower has been rescued by crews and will be taken to a hospital.

ISIS is offering a detailed how-to on using trucks as weapons of mass destruction — noting that the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade would be an “excellent target.’’