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.
The mayor of a city in Arkansas called for an investigation after dashcam video showed an officer pulling over the police chief, saying he was driving over 100 mph -- and then letting him go.
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.
One of the country's oldest mentoring organizations is launching a program pairing officers with youth in an effort to address the fraught relationship between police and the communities they serve.
A new study says a proposal to build a ski resort-style gondola system over the Potomac River connecting the nation's capital to Virginia is feasible and would cost $80 million to $90 million to build.
Prosecutors in New Jersey say two men have been charged in the murder of a former college basketball star and New York Knicks draft choice found slain in the back seat of an SUV last year in New York City.
Miami-Dade police say a man suspected of fatally shooting his wife and son and wounding an attorney begged officers to shoot him during a three-hour standoff.
Lu Parker, a local television news anchor in Los Angeles and a former Miss USA, was arrested Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport on suspicion of stealing a pair of earbud headphones belonging to an off-duty police detective, authorities said.
The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the arson and vandalism of an African-American church in Mississippi, where "Vote Trump" was spray-painted on an outside wall.
Investigators are focusing on speed as they delve into the collision between a school bus and a commuter bus that killed both drivers and four mass-transit riders in southwest Baltimore.