After facing scrutiny from state officials in Massachusetts, a chain of colleges based in India has canceled its plans to buy two U.S. for-profit colleges.
A white police officer who shot and killed a 19-year-old black man during a traffic stop in south Alabama won't face charges after a grand jury decided not to indict him, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
The Latest on the murder trial of a white former South Carolina policeman charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist (all times local): 4:10 p.m.
The lead prosecutor and defense attorney Tuesday offered sharply conflicting views of what a police body camera video will tell jurors about what happened when a white officer fatally shot a black man during a 2015 traffic stop.
Somali-Canadian rapper K'naan (kay-NAHN') wants to tell a story he's familiar with in his proposed HBO series "Mogadishu, Minnesota." K'naan wants to set and film the show in Minneapolis, home to the largest Somali community in the United States.
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley declared a state of emergency Tuesday after a gas pipeline explosion killed a worker, injured five others, and sent thick black smoke over a forest in the northern part of the state.
The reporter of a botched Rolling Stone article about a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia willfully ignored facts and statements that disproved her preconceived storyline about the school's callousness toward sexual-assault victims, an attorney for the former associate dean of students said in his closing arguments Tuesday.
A school bus was blocks away from its first stop Tuesday morning when it rear-ended a car and then ricocheted off a roadside pillar into an oncoming commuter bus.
Authorities in Ohio have identified the remains of a woman whose death has been connected to a man suspected in the killings of at least three other women.