A U.S. attorney in Mississippi says two Mexican inmates have been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay a total of more than $1.3 million for their parts in a 2012 prison riot in which a guard was killed.
Mississippi's Democratic attorney general says he won't join the Republican governor in appealing a federal judge's ruling that blocked a state law on religious objections to gay marriage.
New York State Police have been asked to investigate threatening online comments directed at state Senate candidate Sara Niccoli, whose Quaker faith prohibits her from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
A court has upheld the first-degree murder convictions of a woman serving at least 51 years in prison for the 2011 smothering deaths of her infant twins.
A federal civil rights complaint says the Fort Peck Tribe and Wolf Point-area law enforcement agencies conspired to illegally round up homeless people in July 2013 to prevent them from panhandling during a rodeo and parade weekend.
As a man live streamed Facebook video of himself and two friends smoking and listening to music in a car, someone opened fire on the vehicle, wounding all three men, police said Wednesday.
A man convicted of tying up, gagging and strangling to death a woman who shared his off-campus house at the University of Mary Washington will spend the rest of his life in prison.
Ohio officials have charged a former water plant operator with failing to alert residents after high levels of lead were detected in homes last summer.