The University of Houston student, who faced a 50 day suspension from her post on the student government for saying “all lives matter” on social media, was able to reach a diplomatic arrangement with the president of the organization and will be back on duty when classes begin this fall.
A former University of Colorado student avoided prison time when a judge sentenced him on a sexual assault conviction, leading critics on Thursday to compare his case with the light sentence for ex-Stanford swimmer Brock Turner.
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a convicted killer spent too much time in solitary confinement after throwing a bucket of feces, urine and hot water at corrections officers.
The city with Iowa's highest African-American population has settled lawsuits against white police officers who roughed up three black residents, including a 13-year-old girl who was handcuffed after yelling at a passing officer to "slow down." Videos obtained by The Associated Press in two of the cases show questionable uses of force by Waterloo officers at a time when interactions between police and minority residents around the country are being scrutinized after several high-profile deaths of blacks at the hands of police.
A boulder the size of a house tumbled onto a highway in Utah's Zion National Park after a major thunderstorm, partially closing the roadway during the popular summer season.
A Mississippi woman who once sought to disguise a planned journey to join the Islamic State group as her honeymoon was sentenced by a federal judge Thursday to 12 years in prison on a terrorism charge.
A child was reportedly conscious but had to be airlifted to a hospital after falling from a roller coaster at a western Pennsylvania amusement park Thursday afternoon, officials said.