A judge in Kentucky who recently made headlines for her reaction to a bare-legged inmate returned to the spotlight—this time, allowing a defendant to meet his newborn son.
The parents of a Colorado man reported killed fighting against the Islamic State group says their son joined Kurdish forces to "fight the evil that is ISIS."
An internal investigation into a national jackpot-fixing scandal has concluded that a single former lottery employee was responsible for any drawings that were manipulated, but it failed to uncover proof of his guilt.
Newly released court documents show that a teenager in a Phoenix suburb threw his 3-year-old brother down a flight of stairs before fatally stabbing him multiple times with a carving knife.
Authorities say three suspects have been arrested in the attempted robbery of an 83-year-old Georgia woman who was badly burned during and critically injured.
Two Missouri police officers have been placed on paid administrative leave after a prosecutor accused them of lying about what happened when they tried to arrest a suspect for a parole violation last year.
Airport screening agents confiscated a plastic handgun produced with a 3-D printer from a man's carry-on luggage last week at a Nevada airport in what a federal official said Wednesday might have been the first discovery of its kind in the U.S.
A woman has pleaded guilty in Tennessee to second-degree murder in the death of her 12-year-old daughter, who died at home from gangrene and infected bedsores.
A manhunt was on in Northern California early Wednesday after a volunteer searching for a 75-year-old hiker was shot and wounded by an unknown attacker.
An Arkansas deputy was removed from life support Wednesday afternoon and isn't expected to survive after he and another officer were shot while responding to a disturbance call just hours earlier.
Citing safety concerns, Northern California authorities put on hold the search for a missing hiker while they seek to find a gunman who shot and wounded a volunteer rescuer.