Now that flood waters are receding, it’s time for President Obama to visit flood-ravaged Louisiana, the “most anguished state in the union,” the Baton Rouge Advocate declared in an editorial.
Investigators are still trying to piece together the sequence of events that led to an attack on a Florida couple in which a 19-year-old college student is accused of killing them and biting the man's face.
A federal indictment alleges that a North Carolina man accused of plotting a terror attack in the U.S. communicated with a member of the Islamic State as he developed his plans.
A Southeast Texas man serving life in prison for the suffocation of his girlfriend's child in 1998 has been released and charges dismissed because of what prosecutors say is a lack of evidence.
A woman is suing a Roman Catholic school in New Jersey, alleging the school violated the state's discrimination law when she was fired because she's married to a woman.
Police say a North Carolina man accused of killing his two young daughters, their sister and their mother likely beat the victims to death with a hammer.
Authorities say a Florida man who was making a third attempt to reach Bermuda in an inflatable bubble threatened to kill himself if the Coast Guard did not let him continue his journey.
More than 900 students were absent from three Orland-area schools after authorities say a man posted messages on Twitter, threatening to shoot students and put pipe bombs inside campuses.
