A wildfire burning in Southern California's rugged San Bernardino Mountains has grown to more than 12 square miles, but it hasn't reached any of the homes it has been threatening.
Police say the suspect accused of killing two teenagers near Atlanta stole the girl's wallet and the boy's car jumper cables after he killed both with gunshots to the head.
The whitewater channels at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in North Carolina are scheduled to reopen six weeks after a visitor died from a brain-eating amoeba.
The Los Angeles serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper" faces the death penalty when he is sentenced for the murders of nine women and a teenage girl.
Following a lengthy tug-of-war with Capitol Hill, the Pentagon has given a GOP senator an unclassified report detailing the suspected militant backgrounds of more than 100 detainees held or recently released from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Gunshots rang out after a car struck a protester during a demonstration in Ferguson, Missouri, on the second anniversary of Michael Brown's death, disrupting what had been a peaceful gathering but apparently striking no one.
A volunteer searching for a missing elderly hiker in a remote Northern California park was shot and wounded by an unknown assailant, setting off a search for the shooter.
A wildfire threatening homes in Southern California's rugged San Bernardino Mountains grew to over 12 square miles Tuesday while authorities reopened Highway 1 on the state's central coast after parts were closed due to the huge wildfire just north of Big Sur.
Gunfire broke out during a demonstration in Ferguson, Missouri, on the second anniversary of Michael Brown's death, disrupting what had been a peaceful gathering Tuesday night but apparently wounding no one.
Newly released police reports say authorities investigating nine nighttime drive-by shootings in Phoenix believed to be the work of a serial killer have recovered bullet casings from some of the crime scenes.
A $20 million federal lawsuit filed on behalf of four people arrested during protests following the death of Michael Brown accuses the city of Ferguson and its attorneys of constitutional violations and malicious prosecution.
A federal jury found California's largest utility guilty on Tuesday of misleading investigators about how it was identifying high-risk pipelines after a deadly pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area.
A jury Tuesday began deliberating the fate of a Yale University-educated investment banker who insists he never told his father to trade securities based on the insider information he shared casually with his wife and parents.