A pickup truck slammed into a small utility trailer carrying at least nine people on Halloween night, killing a mother and her two daughters, authorities said Tuesday.
The leader of a federal wildlife refuge takeover in Oregon says his group will "continue to stand" after he and six others were acquitted last week of charges in the case.
A man clad in a Cookie Monster costume was stabbed Saturday night in Midtown when he intervened in a fight between a man wearing a Tuskegee Airman ensemble and a man dressed as an American Indian, police sources said.
A federal judge in Virginia dismissed one element of a $7.5 million defamation suit brought by a University of Virginia dean against Rolling Stone over its November 2014 story detailing an alleged fraternity gang rape.
Lawyers for former Yale basketball captain Jack Montague are seeking a court order that would allow him to return to class while he fights his expulsion for what the university says was sexual misconduct.
As soon as he learned that his mother was dead, an 18-year-old high school senior in Indiana said Sunday he was sure the woman's boyfriend pulled the trigger.
A man convicted of trying to extort money from former Ohio State University and NFL player Christopher "Beanie" Wells has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison.
A monthly survey of business leaders suggests the economy will continue slowing in nine Midwest and Plains states, in part because of manufacturing weakness, according to a report released Tuesday.
U.S. manufacturing grew last month at the fastest pace since July, a sign that American factories are coping with economic weakness overseas and a strong dollar.
An endearing photo of a South Carolina math professor holding a student's newborn during class went viral after the baby's mother posted the picture on Facebook, saying the student could even bring the baby to class for as long as she needed.