South Carolina school officials are investigating after a parent accused a teacher of throwing away her 6-year-old daughter's shoes and making her walk around barefoot.
A Mississippi man accused of killing five people in a south Alabama home with blows from an ax and gunshots is scheduled to appear at an arraignment hearing Wednesday.
A Southern California city has rejected plans for a proposed Hindu cultural center partly because officials say the large, domed building doesn't fit in with its Old West-style motif.
A Pennsylvania corrections officer has been charged after a drug-detecting police dog in his care died last month after it was left in a hot vehicle for 2½ hours during a training exercise.
It was just the start of another school year, but the greeting was anything but routine for students arriving at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School.
Officials say a small plane crashed into an RV park as it approached Reno-Tahoe International Airport. The condition of the pilot or anyone else who may have been aboard is unclear, but there were no injuries on the ground.
The State Department said Tuesday it is evaluating a video released by the Afghan Taliban showing a Canadian man and his American wife warning that their Afghan captors will kill them and their children unless the Kabul government ends its executions of Taliban prisoners.
A black Texas teacher is suing the state's capital after being thrown to the ground by one white officer during a traffic stop, and then being told by another that blacks have "violent tendencies." Breaion King filed suit against the city of Austin in U.S. District Court on Tuesday.
An elite Massachusetts boarding school says a review of possible sexual abuse there has uncovered several cases of sexual misconduct by faculty members.
Polygamous sect members accused of food stamp fraud may testify at an upcoming hearing in an attempt to persuade a judge they were following religiously rooted communal living practices and not breaking the law.
One Tennessee high school basketball player was found guilty of aggravated rape and two others were found guilty of aggravated assault against a freshman teammate, a person familiar with the juvenile court case said Tuesday.