A man charged with killing two nuns confessed to investigators that he went into their home, struggled with them, stabbed them to death and stole their car, a state law enforcement agent testified Friday.
A judge has declared a mistrial over whether a German man was sane when he set dozens of fires across Los Angeles during three nights of terror nearly five years ago.
The Oklahoma Geological Survey has announced the hiring of a new state seismologist to help study the increase in earthquakes linked to oil and gas wastewater disposal.
A grand jury has indicted a Cleveland police officer on a misdemeanor charge of negligent homicide in the death of an 18-year-old man who had broken into a neighborhood store.
Four New Jersey police officers have pleaded guilty to scheming to retaliate against an officer from another department because he arrested one of their relatives for drunken driving.
A suburban Portland pastor who won an AR-15 rifle from a raffle will not be charged for giving it to a gun-owning friend for safekeeping without a background check.
Authorities say a 15-year-old boy accused of trying to burglarize a house in the Louisiana capital city of Baton Rouge has been arrested after he became stuck in a chimney.
A phosphate company says more than 200 million gallons of contaminated waste water from a fertilizer plant in central Florida leaked into one of the state's main underground sources of drinking water after a massive sinkhole opened up beneath a storage pond.
Anyone who wants to be president should not "pop off about going to war" because it is serious business, Michelle Obama said Friday as she reflected on the "sobering experience" of visiting wounded patients at military hospitals.
Police are asking residents of a northwest Baltimore neighborhood and members of the LGBT community for information on the fatal shooting of a transgender woman.