A statue at a Northern California college campus has come under fire as some residents near the school have questioned whether the 55-foot nude woman is appropriate public art.
A Milwaukee police officer was being targeted by online threats Tuesday from people who say he fatally shot the black man whose death has sparked violence in the city.
At least a dozen buildings were burned and more than 82,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes as a fast-moving wildfire exploded across the drought-parched canyons on Southern California on Tuesday.
Authorities say a New Jersey woman who disappeared nearly four months after she survived a shooting has been found dead and two people have been charged.
Two men who were watched by police as they marched through a Los Angeles suburb carrying assault rifles and wearing military-style gear were later detained after a standoff that occurred when their car was stopped in the city of Los Angeles, authorities said Tuesday.
The University of California, Berkeley chancellor, who critics alleged was too lenient when handling sexual harassment cases involving high-profile faculty members, resigned his post Tuesday.
A 19-year-old Florida State University student with no criminal record fatally stabbed a couple at random outside their house, wounded their neighbor and was biting the dead man's face when deputies finally subdued him, authorities said Tuesday.
The Navy is naming a ship in honor of the late gay rights leader Harvey Milk, who served in the Navy for four years before he began a career in San Francisco city government.
The Tennessee chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy says it had no legal choice but to accept $1.2 million from Vanderbilt University in exchange for relinquishing the naming rights to the private school's Confederate Memorial Hall.
A man charged with fatally shooting a rural Georgia police officer had pleaded guilty four months earlier to a gun crime and was sentenced to probation, court records show.
A California man on vacation with his daughter in Arizona says a state trooper was out of line after pulling him over at gunpoint because the license plate on his rental car was reported stolen.