The U.S. Department of Education is hitting Penn State with a record $2.4 million fine for violating a law that requires colleges and universities to report campus crimes and warn people if their safety is threatened.
An elementary school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina says it was forced to cancel a “wax museum” event after some of its third grade students asked to portray controversial historical figures: Adolf Hitler, Christopher Columbus and Donald Trump.
A librarian at prestigious Princeton University thinks it’s her job to “silence” people who are skeptical of so-called “microagressions”, according to a personal email reviewed exclusively by Heat Street.
The U.S. Coast Guard raced to rescue four fishermen and their dog Thursday after an explosion caught on video sent flames erupting in their boat off Georgia's Simons Island Sound.
Texas authorities have determined that the estranged wife of an internationally known pianist is incompetent to stand trial in the deaths of their two young daughters.
The man suspected of killing two Iowa police officers in apparent ambush attacks had worked briefly for a construction company last month before he quit, the firm reported Thursday.
A choking drought that is worsening quickly across Alabama, killing plants and drying out creeks and rivers, has reached levels not seen in at least 50 years, a climate expert said Thursday.
The expected arrival in Nevada of two of rancher Cliven Bundy's sons following their acquittal on federal charges in Oregon comes amid behind-the-scenes activity ahead of a scheduled February trial in Las Vegas.
Julieta Corredor, her two sons and their families have used their two-bedroom townhouse in the heart of Orlando's tourist district as a place for honeymoons, family gatherings and college housing during the more than 30 years they've owned it.
A 52-year-old New York man was arrested Sunday after allegedly driving drunk to pick up a family member at jail, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports.
Alief, Texas, Independent School District teacher Lisa Allison has been charged with injury to a child Wednesday following allegations that she struck a second grade student at Landis Elementary School.
Snohomish County, Washington, sheriff’s deputies have recovered the remains of a child whose body was encased in concrete inside a storage tote in a home.
The mother of a University of Massachusetts Amherst student who died of a heroin overdose has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the school and another student charged with selling her son the drugs.
Orders to U.S. factories increased a modest amount in September even though a key category that tracks business investment plans fell by the largest amount since February.
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