An enraged mother told one of the men involved in her son’s killing to “rot in hell” during a tense standoff inside a New York courthouse Wednesday that began after the man rolled his eyes while she was speaking.
Lawyers for a former Penn State assistant football coach are urging jurors to find the university liable for how it treated him after it became public that his testimony helped prosecutors charge Jerry Sandusky with child molestation.
Some jurors who deadlocked last year in one of America's most notorious missing-child cases now feel a new duty — to see the case through as it's retried.
A former Rutgers University student whose roommate killed himself after being captured on a webcam kissing another man has pleaded guilty to attempted invasion of privacy.
A Milwaukee police officer whose fatal shooting of a black man sparked a weekend of violent unrest in the city has been ordered to stand trial on unrelated sex assault charges.
A prominent media watchdog says Somalia topped the list of countries where the killing of journalists is most likely to go unpunished for the second year in a row.
A former National Guard soldier from Virginia has pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge after admitting that he traveled to Africa and boarded a truck to join the Islamic State group before ultimately bailing out.
A gun disguised to look like a child's toy was among the items seized last week during a traffic stop in Covington, Louisiana, according to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office.
Joseph Tanner was resting his arms on his surf board, his lower body dangling in the water, when something grabbed his right leg and yanked him under the waves.
Amtrak will pay $265 million to settle claims related to a deadly derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight people and injured more than 200 others.
The manhunt for a suspect accused of brutally killing two relatives and wounding two Oklahoma police officers last weekend could be far from over, according to the Oklahoma County Sheriff, who revealed the man could be "anywhere from California to Mexico to Florida."
As roaring flames consumed an apartment building in New York City early Thursday, a firefighter dangling from a rope plucked a trapped person from a window on the fifth floor and safely lowered him to the ground.