The wreckage of a small plane that crashed Saturday night was discovered in a mud-bottomed New Orleans lake 24 miles wide and 40 miles long, authorities said Sunday morning.
Evidence of prosecutorial misconduct that could exonerate a man who has spent 21 years in prison for a double murder will be at center stage during a hearing in a North Carolina courtroom this week.
A new review of surveillance video of a 2002 firefight between a US special ops team and Al Qaeda fighters in the mountains of Afghanistan that left seven Americans dead is now the focus of controversy—with the Air Force secretary pushing the Medal of Honor for one of their own killed during the battle.
In a less-traveled part of the 46-acre Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, an imposing black metal fence serves as a reminder of the multiple security worries that come with hosting the U.S. Open.
With the Little League World Series title game looming Sunday, the Endwell, New York, players planned on taking a break from baseball if only for one evening.
A teenager who vanished from Myrtle Beach in 2009 was repeatedly raped in a gang “stash house” for several days – then she was shot dead and fed to alligators when her disappearance generated too much media attention, the FBI said last week.
A judge has certified a 15-year-old Texas boy to stand trial as an adult in the fatal stabbing and strangling of his mother at their Houston-area home.
Record visitor numbers at the nation's first national park have transformed Yellowstone National Park's annual tourist rush into a sometimes dangerous frenzy.
Andy Savage keeps in his law office a sealed plastic bag with the blood-splattered clothes that Felicia Sanders wore sheltering her granddaughter from a fusillade of bullets that killed nine black parishioners at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church.
A Michigan woman and her two sons fought off a masked intruder trying to break into their home when one of the boys grabbed a samurai sword and swung it at the man, Fox 17 West Michigan reports.
Friends and colleagues who knew two nuns killed in their Mississippi home are gathering Sunday to remember them, as authorities continue to investigate the harrowing crime that shocked people in the small communities where the women committed their lives to helping the poor.
Residents of this small an dusty hamlet range from bemused to skeptical as they watch a 1.4-mile stretch of the border fence being rebuilt to imposing new specifications, with many saying the nearly $12 million project is unlikely to stem the tide of illegal immigrants they find under their trailers, in their backyards or wandering through town.