California authorities say the former owners of the Village Voice in New York City have been arrested days after they were charged with sex trafficking through their control of an online site that advertises escort services.
Several people have been arrested while protesting a video that appears to show a Connecticut police sergeant stomping on the head of a handcuffed man.
An Indiana woman accused of smothering her two children after abducting them says she decided to kill them after hearing that authorities had issued an Amber Alert.
Chicago teachers and officials in the nation's third-largest school district held more contract negotiations Monday in hopes of averting a strike that would affect 400,000 students.
How much could it cost a home owner in eastern North Carolina to clean up the mess left behind by Hurricane Matthew? A high-tech computer program that links topography, stream flow and property tax appraisal information in flood-prone areas gives property owners initial estimates.
A college that had its most high-profile moment earlier this year when first lady Michelle Obama gave a commencement address is now grappling with its president's abrupt resignation amid questions over the handling of her personal expenses and a call for a state investigation.
A Tucson man accused of plotting a terrorist attack on a motor vehicle office in metro Phoenix has agreed to a plea deal and is facing at least seven years in an Arizona prison, authorities said Monday.
Survivors and family members of people killed in the nation's deadliest landslide have reached $60 million in settlements with the state of Washington and a timber company that logged an area above the site of the collapse.
A man accused of driving the wrong way on a Vermont interstate, crashing into a car and killing five high school students, is facing trial on an unrelated domestic assault charge, prosecutors said Monday.
The University of Maine says the school mascot missed a men's hockey game because he was a passenger in a car whose driver was arrested en route to the arena on a drunken driving charge.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won't yet authorize construction of the $3.8 billion, four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline on federal land in southern North Dakota, it said Monday, along with reiterating its earlier request that the pipeline company voluntarily stop work on private land in the area.
A New York City college that had its most high-profile moment when first lady Michelle Obama gave a commencement address this year is now grappling with the sudden resignation of its president.
The driver suspected in a gruesome hit-and-run that left five teenagers dead in Vermont Saturday faced domestic assault charges before the crash, according to police reports.
A bald eagle that somehow managed to get wedged in the front grill of a Florida car was freed unharmed after a passing motorist noticed the bird just after Hurricane Matthew roared past the area.