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.
Pennsylvania State Police say DNA tests show that a body exhumed from a pauper's grave last fall is almost certainly that of a 13-year-old Pittsburgh girl last seen in 1967.
Storms have hit areas of the Southwest again, but with less intensity than a day earlier when monsoon rains swamped the desert region, stranding drivers, flooding streets and prompting water rescues.
Federal authorities have arrested a North Carolina man who they say had been in contact with two men who ambushed an event in Texas where the Muslim prophet Mohammad was being depicted in cartoons.
A 24-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison after admitting he set a fire that killed two women in an oceanfront condominium complex at a North Carolina beach.
The first of two memorial services will be held Thursday for a San Diego police officer who was shot five times at close range in the driver's seat of his patrol car after his partner approached a man on the street.
More than 40 suspected mob members – most allegedly belonging to four major New York City crime families – were arrested in a massive bust across five states on Thursday morning carried out by the FBI and NYPD.
Colton Harris-Moore, the Washington state man dubbed the "Barefoot Bandit" after investigators linked him to a string of stolen boats and planes, is set to get out of prison as early as this week before he starts working at his lawyer's firm, the attorney announced on Wednesday.
