The board regulating Alaska's fledgling legal marijuana industry is expected to approve licenses this week for the state's first retail marijuana outlets.
A Minnesota man confessed Tuesday to abducting and killing 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling nearly 27 years ago, recounting a crime that long haunted the state in chilling detail that included a handcuffed Jacob asking him: "What did I do wrong?"
On Tuesday the FBI and San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department made an announcement that they would be excavating at three sites at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Officials are hoping to find the remains of a student who vanished after an off-campus party over two decades ago.
A Minnesota man confessed Tuesday to abducting and killing 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling nearly 27 years ago, recounting a crime that long haunted the state in chilling detail that included a handcuffed Jacob asking him: "What did I do wrong?"
An FBI team prepared Tuesday to excavate a site on the edge of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, in hope of finding the remains of a student who vanished more than 20 years ago.
An American Indian tribe succeeded Tuesday in getting a federal judge to temporarily stop construction on some, but not all, of a portion of a $3.8 billion four-state oil pipeline, but their broader request still hangs in the balance.
A Nevada homicide suspect remained on the loose Tuesday, four days after he broke his metal handcuffs and escaped from custody at a Las Vegas-area police station, authorities said.
North Carolina authorities are searching for a man who they say shot and killed his 15-year-old son and later used Facebook to admit to shooting and critically wounding his ex-wife.
A report to be released Wednesday by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism finds little evidence of Hollywood improving in the diversity of its movie characters or directors.