A special education instructor in Baytown, Texas recently resigned, stemming from an August 31st incident in which she allegedly spit on a severely autistic student.
Hunter Jobbins, a 19-year-old freshman at Kansas State University in Kansas, had to make a quick trip up to his dorm Sunday to drop off some laundry. He left his Toyota Camry unlocked.
A woman rescued from a large storage container where she says she was kept chained for two months in South Carolina told police the bodies of other women may be buried on the property.
Authorities say a Vermont woman arrested for shoplifting and taken to a police station never told officials her two children were in a car in the mall parking lot.
A Pennsylvania man was arrested on child endangerment charges because he didn't call 911 after the mother of his two children threatened to kill them and sent him videos of his son's lifeless body during two hours' worth of angry text messages, police said.
The Latest on two officers in the Des Moines, Iowa, area who were killed in what authorities describe as ambush-style attacks (all times local): 7:45 a.m.
The U.S. trade deficit fell in September to the lowest level in 19 months as demand for U.S.-made airplanes and other exports increased while imports slipped.
A man who pleaded guilty to puncturing a fire hose being used during the riots in Baltimore last year has been ordered to pay $1 million in restitution.
An Iowa man charged in the killings of two police officers was facing intense money problems, had been found by a judge to hit and financially exploit his mother and was ordered to move out of her basement hours before the shootings.
A former New Orleans police officer accused in the cover-up of shootings that killed two people after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is set to change his plea.
The family of a black South Carolina motorist shot and killed by a white policeman says they are not worried that the fate of the case is in the hands of a nearly all-white jury.