Police arrested a suspect in a 16-year-old homicide after a woman browsing the "most wanted" section of the Los Angeles Police Department website recognized a man she knew and called a tip line, authorities said.
Florida investigators will not charge anyone after a two-year investigation into allegations of murder and sexual abuse at a now-shuttered reform school for boys.
A western Pennsylvania prosecutor has dropped state charges against a Georgia man accused of carrying a stolen gun and ammunition into a movie theater, clearing the way for a federal charge to be prosecuted.
Authorities in south Louisiana recovered the body of a 29-year-old pilot in the wreckage of a helicopter Thursday that disappeared while doing a pipeline survey.
A judge appointed a suburban Chicago state's attorney to handle the murder case against the Chicago police officer who shot black teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times, video of which led to large protests and the eventual ouster of the city's police superintendent.
Deputies say Dylann Roof, charged in the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a Charleston church, has been assaulted by another inmate at the South Carolina jail where he is being held.
Chicago police say three people are charged in connection with a dead child whom firefighters found after putting out a small blaze in an abandoned home.