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A San Francisco filmmaker and community activist arrested in connection with a fatal shooting won't immediately face criminal charges, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Administrators at prestigious Boston Latin School have been embroiled in a dispute with female students over rape culture.

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Colson Whitehead's novel, "The Underground Railroad," is up for another literary award, this one presented by the American Library Association.

A trainer required treatment Tuesday after being clawed on the legs by a tiger as children watched at a Florida fair.

A lawsuit challenging Denver's sweeps of the homeless is the latest in a string of cases opposing crackdowns on people camping in public around the country.

Activists are suing Los Angeles police and prosecutors, arguing that sweeping gang injunctions violate the civil rights of thousands of people.

At least eight inmates and one correctional officer have been injured in a series of fights in a maximum-security section of a Chicago jail.

When Jerry Burton's sleeping bag and tent were removed by city workers from his campsite near a rapidly developing area close to downtown Denver, he was able to start over again with backup gear he keeps hidden for emergencies — whether his or someone else's.

Each year, thousands of Oregon parents hug their children goodbye and send them into the wilderness for up to a week to learn about their state's natural wonders.

A Los Angeles man found with multiple weapons and hundreds of pounds of ammunition in his home was charged with making terrorist threats to the Islamic Center of Southern California, authorities announced Tuesday.

A U.S. government review board has rejected the release of the alleged Southeastern Asian terrorist leader known as Hambali from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline said Tuesday that the dozens of protesters who have camped on company-owned land since the weekend are trespassing and that "lawless behavior will not be tolerated." Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners said in a statement that it wants all protesters to vacate its land in North Dakota immediately.

A 16-year-old boy was shot twice and critically wounded by another teenager Tuesday afternoon when the two got into argument outside a middle school in a Salt Lake City suburb, authorities said.

A former Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. financial adviser has pleaded guilty to insider trading charges in New York City.

Jurors who are considering whether to convict Ammon Bundy and his followers for their occupation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon have indicated difficulty in reaching a consensus.

Three-quarters of nearly 53,000 guns used to commit crimes in New York were originally purchased in another state, New York's attorney general said Tuesday.

Mormon leaders told gay and lesbian members Tuesday that attraction to people of the same sex is not a sin or a measure of their faithfulness and may never go away, but reminded them that having sex violates fundamental doctrinal beliefs that will not change.

Rhode Island's highest court heard arguments Tuesday in a fight that has pitted dozens of members of the Vanderbilt family against a nonprofit that owns several Gilded Age mansions in Newport.

Authorities are investigating to find what caused a bus to slam into the back of a truck Sunday, killing passengers and the driver on their return to Los Angeles from a trip to a casino.