A Chicago federal judge on Tuesday sentenced an Illinois man to 21 years in prison for plotting to attack a US military facility with his cousin, a former Illinois National Guard soldier.
The highest court in Massachusetts on Tuesday threw out a gun conviction against a Boston man in a ruling that says black men who flee when approached by police may be reacting to racial profiling rather than trying to hide criminal activity.
A Northern California mother and daughter were sentenced to 30 days in jail after their conviction for failing to cooperate with a black officer, in part because of his race.
A Rikers Island correction officer admitted Tuesday that he lied to a grand jury and conspired to obstruct an investigation into the 2012 beating death of an inmate.
An estranged husband is accused of shooting and wounding his wife and the man she was with Monday evening as they walked to a vehicle in a long-term parking lot at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, police said Tuesday.
One of the Afghan-born bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami's brothers apparently posted a Facebook photo supporting jihad -- and a sister reportedly posted a quote from the American terror cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, just a few of the potential red flags coming from some of the people who knew the suspect best.
An attorney for a white Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man said the man ignored officers' commands, kept touching his pocket and was reaching through a window of his SUV when he was killed.
A joint task force of North Dakota and federal officials is investigating a clash between Dakota Access pipeline protesters and private security guards earlier this month.
Authorities say a Texas rancher mowing his pasture discovered the decomposing remains of a young girl along with medical apparatus commonly used with a feeding tube.