A former Massachusetts city councilor who stole more than $270,000 from his business partner and customers of his funeral home has been sentenced to prison.
They're two of just five women in the U.S. who can operate F-16 Fighting Falcon jets for the Air National Guard, but their gender is the last thing the millennial pilots based in South Dakota dwell on.
Two South Dakota pilots are now part of a select group of five women from around the country who can operate F-16 Fighting Falcon jets for the Air National Guard.
Maryland prison officials on Wednesday withdrew proposed regulations to impose the nation's first total ban on letters to inmates at state facilities, except for official legal correspondence and postcards.
The pregnant wife a prominent Chinese dissident has arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area with her 4-year-old son to live for at least one year as refugees.
A record terrorism-related forfeiture order benefiting families of some Sept. 11 victims and others was reversed on appeal Wednesday, leaving in doubt what will happen to a $1 billion Manhattan office building at the center of the legal case.
Authorities are trying to determine the relationship between a teen boy and a 13-year-old girl he's accused of killing after her body was found in the Northern California home where they both lived.
Blazes in the U.S. West have blocked a major route to Yellowstone National Park during tourist season and tore through a mobile home park in Utah, leaving residences destroyed and people displaced.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday that leaders at a counter-Islamic State meeting expressed concerns about what happens after the expected defeat of the militant group, and whether countries are ready to help stabilize and rebuild the war-torn cities in Iraq and Syria.
High temperatures and humidity will bake much of the central U.S. this week, making it feel as hot as 115 degrees in some places and leading some cities to open cooling stations and take other precautions.