Nurses and doctors have been delayed by temporary airport closures in South Florida, unable to travel to those in Haiti injured by the hurricane that has killed hundreds.
A man accused of arranging a contract killing in which the hired attacker went to the wrong Ohio home and shot someone with the same name as the intended target has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Chicago teachers and officials in the nation's third-largest school district will hold contract negotiations through the weekend in hopes of reaching a deal to avert a strike.
Authorities are investigating after a woman said she found a cross burning in her front yard and a racial slur written on her mobile home in western Kentucky.
Police are investigated the deaths of two 13-year-old boys in the Utah ski-resort town of Park City that may be connected to a new synthetic drug found at entertainer Prince's estate as law enforcement around the country struggles with a national epidemic of opioid drugs.
In its record-long week as a major hurricane, Matthew has threaded the needle with its track, staying over warm waters that provide fuel and avoiding land that could starve it.
A prosecutor in the trial of a landlord of a Portland, Maine, building where six people died in a fire is using his closing statement to make the case the building was unsafely operated as an illegal rooming house.
Hurricane Matthew battered Northeast Florida with driving rain and storm surge Friday afternoon as it barreled up the Atlantic coastline, with officials in Georgia warning people along the coast to evacuate immediately.
Settlement talks that one attorney describes as "fruitful" could resolve a lawsuit that Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson and others filed against the city of Baton Rouge over their arrests during protests of a deadly police shooting.