A 26-year-old man has been mistakenly cremated after a Los Angeles County Coroner's technician confused his remains with those of another man with the same name, a spokesman for the coroner's office says.
An 80-year-old Bible-quoting cowboy who's been crisscrossing the country on horseback wants $50 million from New York City for seizing his two steeds after he rode into town in June.
A Sacramento County sheriff's spokesman says a suspect is dead after he pointed a gun at police and was shot by two California Highway Patrol officers.
DNA evidence in the killing of JonBenét Ramsey does not support a former prosecutor’s decision to clear the girl’s relatives in her death, according to an explosive new report revealing new information to the public for the first time in the 1996 killing.
A tense protest over the Dakota Access pipeline subsided at least temporarily after some protest leaders urged activists to leave a barricade near a state highway bridge.
The Army said Friday it has determined that suicide was the cause of death of a two-star general who was found dead in his home on a military base in Alabama.
California will recover $15 million related to the massive Ponzi scheme engineered by Bernard Madoff as part of a larger agreement liquefying the $277 million estate of a Beverly Hills investment adviser, officials said Friday.
A lawsuit filed in Connecticut this week accuses a former top official for the scandal-plagued Legion of Christ of sexually abusing a boy in the 1990s.
The latest on the death of a baby boy whose body Wyoming authorities believe was taken to a northern Colorado landfill (all times local): 4:14 p.m.: Wyoming authorities have identified the 13-month old boy whose body they believe was taken to a landfill in northern Colorado.
Baylor regents say 17 women have reported sexual or domestic assaults involving 19 Baylor University athletes since 2011, including four reports of gang rapes.
Prosecutors say five items in a mansion where a couple, their son and their housekeeper were killed have DNA evidence linking the man accused in the slayings.
The leader of an isolated religious sect in Minnesota has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, weeks after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two teenage girls.