A school bus carrying about 50 middle and high school students flipped on its side into a ditch beside a rural road near Houston, sending 14 students and the driver to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
Witnesses say dozens of black and white students are occupying the University of Mississippi's main administrative building in Oxford to protest what they called the chancellor's weak response to a Facebook comment about lynching.
A North Carolina school superintendent is recommending a 10-day suspension without pay for a high school teacher who stepped on the American flag in class to make a point about the First Amendment.
Records show the Columbus police officer who fatally shot a black 13-year-old during an armed robbery investigation once helped save the life of a black boy the same age.
A 22-year-old Alabama man has been charged in his twin brother's death after police say the twin was shot while both siblings were trying to rob someone.
The village of Brentwood, on New York’s Long Island, is nearly 2,000 miles from the Mexican border, but with four dead teenagers, it has become a flashpoint in the debate over federal immigration policies and their possible links to gang violence.
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, who’s struggling to repair his tattered image, fought tears and pleaded with neighbors to support the city’s police officers as he unveiled a three-part plan to fight the city’s staggering violent crime and bloodshed.
A New Jersey imam spoke against violence and in support of law enforcement during the first Friday prayer service since a local man was charged in the New Jersey and New York City bombings.
The U.S. Army says it has suspended the commander of Fort Riley and launched an official investigation, though no details have been provided about what led to the action.
Federal prosecutors say a suspect in the 2015 shooting of a Texas judge outside her home has been indicted on racketeering charges allegedly related to the attack.
Defense attorneys don't intend to have Dylann Roof ask the jury for mercy during the penalty phase of his federal trial in the Charleston church shootings.
Authorities say a man arrested after an emergency landing in Texas was talking about suicide and banging and kicking the cockpit door before other passengers restrained him.
Amid an investigation into the destruction of evidence at one Houston-area constable's office, an ongoing audit has determined there might be criminal evidence missing at another local constable's office.