An elementary school in Georgia is thanking U.S. service members ahead of Veterans Day with a patriotic display bigger than ever before: 10,000 American flags blanketing the front lawn.
About 1,500 law enforcement officers joined more than 1,000 other mourners Monday at a funeral for a one of two Iowa police officers who were fatally shot just minutes apart last week.
New Jersey state police say two people have been charged with stuffing material into toll baskets on the Atlantic City Expressway to prevent coins from going in and then returning to steal the money.
The suspect in a Halloween party shooting that left two young women dead and five other people wounded is being held in Virginia pending extradition to upstate New York.
Testimony in the trial of a white former South Carolina police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist is raising the questions about how much force is justified.
A deadly rampage at Los Angeles International Airport grew from a suicide plan that morphed into a twisted mission to die in a blaze of glory taking out federal officers, the gunman said before being sentenced to life in prison.
An investigation of the August shooting of a mother and her 4-year-old daughter in Long Beach led detectives to a 22-year-old man who arrived in the city by bus from Tulsa, Oklahoma, three days before they were killed.
A Northern California woman jumped to hear death Monday after plowing into her estranged husband and two of his friends as they crossed an intersection outside a courthouse.
A 22-year-old man from Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been arrested in the shooting deaths of a Long Beach mother and her 4-year-old daughter as they returned home from grocery shopping, authorities said Monday.
Officials say all Washington State University sorority and fraternity events, from formals to football tailgates, have been banned for the rest of the semester.
A white former police officer on trial for murder is expected to take the stand any day to tell jurors that he feared for his life when he fatally shot an unarmed black motorist during a traffic stop in Ohio.
Harry Belafonte, "Wolf Hall" author Hilary Mantel and columnist-speechwriter Peggy Noonan were among five honorees at the New York Public Library's annual gala for its "Library Lions." "Brooklyn" novelist Colm Toibin and author-translator Javier Marias were the other "exceptional men and women" celebrated Monday night during a dinner ceremony at the historic reading room of the library's Fifth Avenue branch.
A 24-year-old Mexican national has been jailed on a capital murder charge after his 10-year-old female cousin was found dead in an East Texas water well.
Jurors awarded a University of Virginia administrator $3 million Monday for her portrayal in a now-discredited Rolling Stone magazine article about the school's handling of a brutal gang rape a fraternity house.
A famous custom pool-cue maker has been sentenced to two years of probation for his role in trying to help export protected African elephant ivory to Taiwan.