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.’’
Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires across the drought-stricken South with little indication they'll get help from the weather any time soon.
UC Berkeley has barred a once-respected Middle Eastern Studies scholar and architecture professor from teaching after a five-month-long investigation found that he sexually harassed a student, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Sunday.
Middle school and high school students in states from California to Maryland walked out of classes Monday in the latest mass protests against President-elect Donald Trump, as officials in major cities pleaded for calm.
A jury in Georgia Monday found a father guilty of murder in the death of his 22-month-old son who was left for hours inside a hot SUV -- a conviction expected to send the man to prison for the rest of his life.
The University of Michigan’s law school has cancelled a planned “self-care” event, designed to help students cope with Donald Trump’s election, following a wave of Internet ridicule.
A man whose homicide conviction was overturned in a case profiled in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" was ordered released Monday from federal prison while prosecutors appeal.
A woman whose sister was shot inside a gay Orlando nightclub can be heard on a 911 call hyperventilating and crying as she asks a police dispatcher for help.