Real estate heir and documentary figure Robert Durst is set to make a long-awaited appearance Monday in a Los Angeles courtroom to a charge of killing his friend 16 years ago.
A U.S. prosecutor has told jurors in a New York courtroom that two nephews of Venezuela's first lady thought they were so powerful they could ship a ton of cocaine to the United States.
Dozens of buildings sustained "substantial damage" after a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck an Oklahoma town that's home to one of the world's key oil hubs, but officials said Monday that no damage has been reported at the oil terminal.
Tensions remain high in a predominantly white neighborhood on Chicago's South Side where an off-duty police officer fatally shot a 25-year-old black man.
A member of the New England mob who was convicted of trying to hire someone to kill a rival mobster has died two weeks after being released from federal prison.
A University of Virginia administrator who jurors found was defamed by a Rolling Stone article about a gang rape says she "just wanted to disappear" after the story hit newsstands in November 2014.
Jury selection is resuming in the federal case a white man on trial for fatally shooting nine black parishioners during a Bible study at a Charleston church last year.
Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and the epicenter of several political storms during the Clinton administration, has died.
Investigators will continue Monday combing for human remains and other clues on the South Carolina property of a man accused of a grisly crime spree stretching more than a decade.
Two men were arrested Saturday in connection to a couple instances of vandalism at the Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. and the FBI’s headquarters, police said.
A 5.0-magnitude earthquake centered near one of the world's key oil hubs has triggered fears the temblor may have damaged key infrastructure and rendered century-old downtown buildings unsafe in the latest Oklahoma town rattled by increasingly strong quakes.
Police in Rhode Island say a driver apparently overdosed while her 4-year-old daughter was in the back seat, and that another passenger pulled over and stopped the car by grabbing the wheel and pulling the emergency brake.