The autopsy of a Maine woman found dead behind her in-laws' home shows she was buried along with a bag of potato chips, a bottle of perfume and a note that took "an apologetic tone." The Morning Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/2eif3kY ) the body of 34-year-old Valerie Tieman was found partially buried in a shallow grave behind her in-laws' Fairfield home on Sept. 20.
The Texas Education Agency has reviewed and rejected a complaint from Turkey alleging a charter school system engaged in employment discrimination and misused public funds.
The woman who claimed she was gang raped in a now-discredited story in Rolling Stone magazine said the University of Virginia dean who counseled her after she came forward about her alleged assault "did everything right," an attorney said Tuesday.
Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of an Alabama death row inmate he says could be "very likely actually innocent." Meese filed a brief saying "basic notions of fairness" require a review of the conviction of Bill Kuenzel, who was convicted of killing convenience store clerk Linda Jean Offord in 1987.
Phoenix police on Tuesday released the identities of a man and two daughters who died in what police believe was a murder-suicide, and court records indicate the man's ex-wife had obtained an order of protection against him.
Firefighters helped by improved weather conditions were trying Tuesday to stop the spread of a wildfire that has forced the evacuation of hundreds of people in southern Colorado and destroyed at least two homes.
A man who killed three people and injured nine more in a shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs says he's been forcibly medicated while being held at the state psychiatric hospital.
A man who killed three people and injured nine more in a shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs says he's been forcibly medicated while being held at the state psychiatric hospital.