Advocates for changes in New Orleans' criminal justice system plan a news conference to discuss their request that the U.S. Justice Department look into wrongful convictions.
A former Kentucky employee of a container company is accused of putting over 100 shards of glass into the sleeves of drinking cups that were to be distributed to multiple states.
Police in an Atlanta suburb say they want to hear from any possible witnesses in the area of a grocery store shortly before two teens were found slain behind the business.
Defense attorneys for a former South Carolina police officer accused in the shooting death of a black motorist who was running away have filed a motion seeking more thorough questioning of potential jurors.
Wildfires were burning Monday in seven Western U.S. states, from California's famed Big Sur region to tribal towns and hamlets near Reno, Nevada. More than a dozen homes were destroyed in Montana, and evacuations were ordered in Nevada, Oregon and Wyoming. Firefighters were trying to stop a Washington blaze from reaching a thickly forested security zone at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
The picturesque Main Street of Ellicott City, Maryland, faces a monthslong recovery that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars after devastating flooding left two dead and damaged nearly every home and business along the road, officials said.
A hatchet-waving man led police on a 20-mile chase through several Massachusetts towns before eventually being boxed in by state and local police cruisers, officials said.
As authorities investigate a hot air balloon crash that killed 16 people in Texas, experienced pilots say consumers should check out companies and pilots offering hot air balloon rides before taking to the air.
A former Philadelphia church official imprisoned over his handling of abuse complaints is seeking bail after Pennsylvania's highest court granted him a new trial.
The attorney for a man accused of fatally shooting an Ohio policeman is seeking to move the trial, citing "extensive" publicity in the potential death penalty case.