A longtime con man most famous for entering Princeton University in the late 1980s by posing as a self-taught ranch hand has been arrested in Aspen, where he had been squatting in an illegally built shack on the side of a ski mountain in the tony resort town.
The driver of a Baltimore school bus involved in a deadly crash with a commuter bus this week should not have been at the wheel because his commercial driver's license was suspended two months earlier, the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration said Thursday.
A longtime con man most famous for entering Princeton University in the late 1980s by posing as a self-taught ranch hand was arrested Thursday in Aspen, where he had been squatting in an illegally built shack on the side of a ski mountain in the tony resort town.
A man who was arrested in connection with an ambush style attack that killed the owner of a famed New York City pizza restaurant appeared in federal court on Thursday to face charges against him.
Harvard University announced Thursday that it would forgo the remainder of its men's soccer season after the school's lawyers found several "scouting reports" prepared by team members that assessed members of the women's team based on their physical appearance.
A former Marine who confessed to strangling a 19-year-old woman and tossing her body into a California desert mine shaft has been convicted of first-degree murder.
A man riding with Walter Scott when they were pulled over by Michael Slager testified Thursday that he doesn't know why his friend tried to run away before the officer shot him in the back.
The Battle of Midway was a major turning point in World War II's Pacific theater. The remote atoll where thousands died is now a delicate sanctuary for millions of seabirds, and a new battle is pitting preservation of its vaunted military history against the protection of its wildlife.
An Iowa man charged Thursday with killing 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 slayings.
The search for a South Carolina couple who vanished in August led to a dramatic discovery Thursday when investigators found the missing woman alive, chained by her neck in a metal storage container on a property some 50 miles from her home.
Federal investigators looking into a New York City transit death Thursday are examining whether escape alcoves used to protect workers from an oncoming subway train have enough room, a U.S. official told The Associated Press.
San Francisco on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the developers of a sinking and tilting luxury high-rise, claiming they knew about the problems but did not disclose the information to potential home buyers as required by law.
Philadelphia's main transit agency on Thursday asked for assurances from the city's striking transit union that it will suspend its walkout on Election Day if no contract agreement is reached by then. Without that promise, the agency said, it will go to court to try to force transit employees to work on Nov. 8.