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A former teacher who faked his own attack at Bothell High School in Washington earlier this year has pleaded guilty to two criminal charges.

A Pennsylvania prosecutor says no charges will be filed against a police officer who fatally shot a man who authorities say was holding a knife to his mother's throat.

Some of Baylor University's most prominent supporters, including the billionaire businessman whose name is on the football stadium, are calling for a shakeup of the school's board of regents in the wake of the campus sexual assault scandal.

The acquittal of seven people who took over a federal wildlife refuge in a 41-day armed standoff with authorities raises questions about what prosecutors will do with seven more defendants in the same case who are going to court in February.

The government says an Ohio man accused of trying to join the Islamic State group has been arrested while attempting to fly to Libya.

A man has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting a transgender woman before setting her on fire in southwest Florida.

Attorneys on Monday began their defense of a white former police officer who is expected to try to convince jurors he feared for his life when he fatally shot an unarmed black motorist after a traffic stop in Ohio.

The ex-Rutgers University student accused of stabbing a faculty member, another student and then himself, now faces charges including attempted murder, officials announced Monday.

In the days after the release of a now-retracted Rolling Stone magazine story about a brutal gang rape, the University of Virginia administrator portrayed in the article was convinced she would be fired, feared for her safety and felt like her world was crashing down around her, she told jurors Monday.

A Cobb County, Georgia, mother is facing child cruelty, among other charges, after police say she forced her child to strip down naked and walk through a elementary school parking lot on Halloween morning as punishment for getting in trouble.

Officials say at least 20 children at a South Florida preschool have been hospitalized after suffering from nausea and vomiting.

The Harvard men’s soccer team wasn’t alone in circulating sexually explicit ratings of female students—the college’s men’s cross country team also built spreadsheets assessing women based on their looks, the Harvard Crimson reported this weekend.

New York City police say a person standing on a subway platform has been pushed in front of an oncoming train and killed.

Utah police said Monday they are investigating whether three juveniles in a stolen car intentionally hit an officer killed during a car chase.

Ten people were hurt when a fire tore through a small apartment complex in Payson.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys making final arguments to a Georgia jury Monday agreed on one thing: that when Justin Ross Harris arrived at work more than two years ago and locked his car, his toddler son was left behind in the back seat and suffered a slow and agonizing death.

A man arrested after filming a Portland police precinct from a sports utility vehicle filled with weapons and ammunition has been sentenced to three years on probation after pleading no contest to unlawful possession of a firearm.

A man suspected in a deadly hit-and-run crash in Colorado last month may have been driving at speeds as high as 134 mph, according to police who said a couple of fishermen ultimately spotted him naked in a park.

American consumers boosted their borrowing in September, a potential sign that recent job growth and wage gains have left them slightly more comfortable with holding debt.

A man described by U.S. authorities as the ringleader of a lottery scam that bilked at least 70 people out of millions of dollars has been arrested in Jamaica.