A South Carolina sheriff says a father told deputies he was trying to make sure a gun was safe when accidentally fired the weapon, killing his 2-year-old daughter and wounding her 4-year-old sister.
The Latest on the indictment of former New England Mafia boss Francis "Cadillac Frank" Salemme and a mob associate in the 1993 killing of a Boston nightclub owner (all times local): 3:55 p.m.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol says a trooper and a nurse helped save a father and son who had apparently overdosed on heroin inside a car along a busy interstate.
Prosecutors say a man accused of grabbing and repeatedly firing a New York City police officer's gun and killing a Good Samaritan has an "appalling" disregard for human life.
A judge has rejected arguments from attorneys for a British woman on Texas death row that prosecutors coerced witnesses and improperly hid information that could have affected the outcome of her capital murder trial 14 years ago.
Eulogized in the church where she took her vows decades ago, a slain nun was remembered Friday for her devotion to the poor and for the Donald Duck impression she used to comfort her young patients in Mississippi.
A judge will keep private the case over custody of two children who were found next to their slain parents after eight people from one Ohio family were fatally shot.
New criminal charges of negligent homicide and negligent injuring have been filed against the driver of a bus in an accident that killed three people and injured dozens near New Orleans, Louisiana State Police said Friday.
The attorney for a former North Carolina hospital volunteer whose racially tinged tirade was posted to YouTube says the charge against her has been dropped.
Audits have been ordered for South Carolina's three research universities after revelations that their trustees spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on luxury hotels, expensive dinners and travel to football games.