The 1989 abduction of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling from a deserted road has intrigued Minnesota residents and others around the country for more than two decades.
Tropical Storm Hermine intensified as it moved slowly up the Atlantic Coast on Saturday with heavy rains, wind and storm surges making a mess of the Labor Day holiday weekend.
A record-tying earthquake in the edge of Oklahoma's key energy-producing areas rattled the Midwest from Nebraska to North Texas on Saturday, and likely will bring fresh attention to the practice of disposing oil and gas field wastewater deep underground.
Authorities say a man whom police in North Carolina shot to death earlier this week had just gone to his girlfriend's house, showed her a gun and told her she couldn't leave him.
Notices that personal information might have been compromised are being sent to hunting and fishing license holders in Idaho and Oregon following the breach of a vendor's computer system.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says his state had more than $8.7 billion in damage from catastrophic flooding in August, and the figure will increase as officials finish assessing damage to roads and other public infrastructure.
Donald Trump swayed to songs of prayer, read scripture, and wore a traditional prayer shawl Saturday on a visit to a predominantly black church in Detroit, as he called for a "civil rights agenda of our time" and vowed to fix the "many wrongs" facing African-Americans.
For nearly 50 days, James Tullier has barely left the Baton Rouge hospital where he's held vigil for his son, a sheriff's deputy wounded in an ambush that killed three other officers — not even when his family was hit by a second tragedy, their homes wrecked in historic flooding.