Audio from the sunken freighter El Faro's "black box" shows the captain ordered his crew to abandon ship about 10 hours after leaving a Florida port and becoming caught in a hurricane last year.
An Iowa prosecutor wants a judge to issue subpoenas for telephone and bank records of two Texas attorneys who he believes are connected to a former lottery computer security administrator who fixed lottery games in several states.
The University of Chicago, one of America’s most prestigious and selective universities, is warning incoming students starting this fall not to expect safe spaces and a trigger-free existence during their four-year journey through academia.
A Maryland school district is in trouble after a training video surfaced that instructs overnight field trip chaperones on how to accommodate transgender students.
A Maryland school district is in trouble after a training video surfaced that instructs overnight field trip chaperones on how to accommodate transgender students.
Police say that when a driver turned on his police-style blue flashing lights to get another car out of his way, he chose poorly: The other motorist was a real officer.
It was a bit costly for Canadians to help the 1,500 Americans who drifted across the St. Clair River last weekend, but officials don't plan on billing their U.S. neighbors.
The Marine Corps announced Wednesday that U.S. service members seen in another photo taken at Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945 were also misidentified, two months after correcting the record on one of the most iconic images from World War II.
The U.S. military picture in Syria is getting more chaotic and complicated by the day, putting new strains on the Obama administration's strategy of partnering with a hodgepodge of local fighters against the Islamic State group without getting pulled deeper into Syria's civil war or rupturing relations with Turkey.
A couple wanted in connection with a woman's killing and the kidnapping of her three small children from Southern California should be considered armed and dangerous, authorities said Wednesday.
The mother of a Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense after he killed four people in a drunken-driving crash was released from house arrest -- and returned to the bar where she's worked, a witness said Wednesday.
If it comes down to it, Gov. Bill Haslam says Tennessee will make the hard choice to repeal a new drunken driving law rather than forego millions in federal road money.