A patron hiding inside the Pulse gay nightclub as a gunman carried out the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history whispered to a dispatcher on a 911 call, "He is going to kill us."
A day after the body of a North Texas college student was found dismembered and burned in a plastic kiddie pool in a park, a mysterious tweet appeared on her Twitter account that read, “Never knew I could feel like this.”
A firefighter among those battling a central California wildfire died Wednesday and another was hurt when the water truck they were in overturned on a highway miles from the fire lines.
Colonial Pipeline has restarted the gasoline pipeline in Alabama that was shut down after a major leak, which caused shortages and surging fuel prices across the South.
A German expert who evaluated six Minnesota men who pleaded guilty to trying to join the Islamic State group has developed counseling plans for each of them aimed at keeping them off the path of violence.
A Minnesota man has been arrested on suspicion of financially exploiting a vulnerable adult after authorities found the bodies of two people who'd been dead for more than a year in the home he shared with his mother and twin brother.
A leading conservative on Texas' Board of Education has proposed walking out of an upcoming discussion on a controversial Mexican-American studies textbook to "deny the Hispanics a record vote." The board is to vote in November on a high-school level Mexican-American studies book.
Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, broadly released dashcam and aerial footage, 911 calls and police radio traffic with unusual swiftness following last Friday's shooting death of an unarmed black man by a white officer.
One person was shot and critically injured Wednesday night during a protest in Charlotte, N.C. following the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer earlier this week.
The federal charges, which portray Ahmad Khan Rahami as a man bent on murderous destruction, set the stage for the most anticipated terror prosecution since the Boston Marathon bombing.
Authorities say they have suspended the search for three boaters, including a 9-year-old boy and his father, who didn't return from a fishing trip in Lake Superior.
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson formally announced on Wednesday that the department will be adding 970 total positions to the force by 2018.
A patron hiding inside the Pulse gay nightclub as a gunman carries out the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history whispers to a dispatcher on a 911 call: "He is going to kill us." The 911 call was among more than 20 released Wednesday by the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
The Christian owners of an Oregon bakery who were fined over $135,000 by a state government agency for declining to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding are continuing to fight for their First Amendment rights.