Police in the Boston suburb of Arlington say they arrested the baby sitter for a 3-year-old boy after officers found her stumbling around a neighborhood drunk and high on prescription drugs with the child in tow.
Authorities are adding a charge against an Alabama man accused of setting fire to a turtle after officials determined the reptile is an endangered tortoise.
Authorities have released the names of four Alaskans and a Montana man who were killed in a midair collision of two small planes in western Alaska, and responders said Thursday that rough terrain is complicating efforts to recover the bodies.
A polygamous sect member who believes writing to imprisoned sect leader Warren Jeffs is essential to his eternal salvation will be allowed to continue sending monthly letters while he awaits trial on food stamp fraud charges.
Dallas police Chief David Brown announced his retirement Thursday, bringing an end to a tenure marked by police unions that at one time demanded his resignation and by widespread praise for his response to a July sniper attack that killed five officers.
A former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman will be released from jail after serving half a six-month sentence that critics denounced as too lenient.
Student activists at Michigan State University in Lansing are this week staging a sit-in on campus and demanding that the school re-open a single-gender lounge that it closed over the summer.
As college kicks off across the United States, students at the Mizzou, Oregon State University, Virginia Tech, the University of Wisconsin Madison and other universities sat through diversity and sensitivity training.
A woman has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for joining fellow members of a central New York church in a 14-hour round of beatings that killed one of her half brothers and wounded another.
The number of shooting deaths here has surpassed the total for last year with four months still to go, in a bloody 2016 in which Chicago has outpaced most major U.S. cities in homicides.
A South Carolina judge has refused to make the city of North Charleston turn over documents involving its $6.5 million settlement of a lawsuit with the family of a black motorist shot and killed by a white city police officer.