Exxon Mobil Corp. will pay $12 million for environmental damages caused by a pipeline break that spilled 63,000 gallons (238,474 liters) of crude into Montana's Yellowstone River and prompted a national debate over lax pipeline safety rules, officials said Wednesday.
A lawyer for real estate heir Robert Durst says Los Angeles County prosecutors could get custody of him immediately, rather than waiting until he's moved to a federal prison in Indiana to serve time for a weapons conviction.
Massachusetts' highest court has upheld a sentence imposed on a landlord convicted of pushing a Muslim tenant down the stairs, including a requirement that she take a class on Islam.
A man in Kentucky faces as much as a decade in prison for child abuse after authorities said he disciplined a child with a belt that bruised her buttocks.
Authorities say the heroin that led 27 people to overdose in a five-hour span in a single West Virginia city had been mixed with the powerful painkiller fentanyl.
Police in Ohio are looking at whether a man linked to the slayings of four women was involved in the disappearance or death of a fifth woman over a year ago.
A Missouri man is accused of sexually attacking and suffocating his 18-year-old high school honors student daughter whose body was found months ago in a motel.
Charlotte police warned 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott again and again to drop his handgun before an officer shot and killed him, the police chief announced Wednesday morning, after riots damaged patrol cars and injured at least 16 officers.
The second leg of Milo Yiannopoulos’s “Dangerous Faggot” tour is off to a rocky start, as one school on his roster — the University of Miami — has already cancelled his planned appearance.