Relieved parents dropped their children off at Chicago schools on Tuesday morning after the Chicago Teachers Union and the nation's third-largest school district averted a strike with a late-night tentative contract agreement.
A retired teacher who still kept score and statistics for a Pennsylvania Catholic high school has died of brain injuries suffered when a football player collided with him 10 days earlier.
A lawyer for the Turkish government hired to investigate publicly funded U.S. charter schools started by the followers of a reclusive Muslim cleric living in Pennsylvania is filing a formal complaint with Ohio's auditor.
A Georgia preacher's teenage stepdaughter who was handing out literature from her church was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver who was under the influence of prescription drugs, authorities said.
The company building the four-state Dakota Access pipeline plans to resume construction on private land near Lake Oahe in North Dakota, where protests supporting tribal rights have endured for months.
After a dayslong hunt for a 4-year-old girl and her accused kidnapper reached a dramatic end on Monday, young Rebecca Lewis was finally set to return home to central Florida.
U.S. Navy officials say the USS Montgomery was damaged during a collision with a tugboat as it prepared to leave Mayport Naval Station for safe waters ahead of Hurricane Matthew.