Officials in Kentucky are monitoring a day care center after an investigation found that employees required children to be hit before they could get a snack.
A not guilty plea has been entered on behalf of an Oklahoma police officer charged with first-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man.
Two American sisters found dead in their tropical island villa while vacationing in Seychelles died of excess fluid in their lungs, according to police in the African archipelago nation.
Four public schools and a Catholic school in an Ohio town were closed Friday after a woman told police she was attacked overnight by a man dressed as a clown who made threats against students, Fox 19 Cincinnati reports.
Federal prosecutors say a former AT&T retail sales worker is accused of obtaining customers' cellphone records and selling them to a private investigator, the second such case in Alabama in recent days.
Authorities are requesting archived news footage from Salt Lake City television stations in search of potential clues relating to the unsolved killing of a 6-year-old girl who was abducted from her home more than 20 years ago.
A prosecutor in Pensacola, Florida, says he anticipates a 15-year-old boy will be charged as an adult for fatally stabbing his older brother with a butcher knife.