Officials say a fire that destroyed 43 homes last year in a largely rural area north of San Francisco was sparked by an illegal marijuana growing operation.
A Virginia man who scaled the all-glass face of Trump Tower last week using suction cups planned his climb, ordering equipment on Amazon, practicing ahead of time and waiting until his parents were away before traveling to New York City, according to prosecutors.
A city-run cultural program in Seattle is offering residents classes on "white fragility" to white folks understand why they can't seem to handle matters involving race, and tickets have sold out.
The newest wildfire to scorch Southern California advanced on thousands of homes Wednesday, ravaging several structures as it expanded to at least 30,000 acres while feeding on drought-stricken vegetation.
The U.S. Coast Guard says firefighters protected Lake Tahoe's famously clear water as they quickly snuffed out flames shooting out of a docked tourist cruise boat.
A North Carolina man killed his two young daughters, their sister and their mother before fleeing to Virginia — just weeks after he was forced to get psychiatric help because of a suicide attempt, authorities said Wednesday.
The mother of a 19-year-old Florida State University student charged with fatally stabbing a couple outside their home and then biting the dead man's face told police her son had been acting strangely for days and claimed to have superpowers, according to a report released Wednesday.
A Minnesota police chief defended his officer who shot and killed a black man during a traffic stop as level-headed and skilled in an interview with The Associated Press Wednesday, using his first public comments about the July incident to paint a contrasting picture of the officer shown screaming expletives while pointing his gun at the dying man in livestreamed footage of the shooting's aftermath.