A 38-year-old Louisiana man, who is facing a first-degree murder charge in the beating death of his wife in the backyard of the couple's home in August, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Authorities say a central New York teenager charged with killing his father used a rifle to commit the slaying and then covered the victim's body with a tarp in their backyard.
Two court bailiffs were killed and a deputy sheriff shot Monday inside a southwestern Michigan courthouse when an inmate broke loose and got his hands on an officer's gun, officials said.
At least two tornadoes, torrential rain and powerful winds damaged homes, caused an evacuation of a nursing home and flooded highways in north-central Minnesota.
The husband of a woman accused of killing their three sons has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for having sex with his wife before they were married when she was underage.
Proceedings are set to continue for the fourth Baltimore police officer to stand trial on charges stemming from the death of a 25-year-old black man injured in a police transport van.
As a conservative talk-radio host in the 1990s, Mike Pence described himself as "Rush Limbaugh on decaf." Two decades later, Pence is the unflappable conservative governor of Indiana who has caught the eye of another fiery personality: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
A former airman stationed at Dover Air Force Base is going on trial on a murder charge in the 2012 death of a 21-month-old boy who was left in his care.
Recordings from law enforcement body and dashboard cameras will not be considered public records in North Carolina under a law signed Monday by Gov. Pat McCrory.
Baton Rouge's top prosecutor is weighing whether to pursue charges against nearly 200 demonstrators arrested in weekend protests over the killings of young black men as criticism mounts by protesters over the tactics officers used on the crowds.
Last weekend provided a small measure of relief to San Diego's homeless population with the arrest of a man who police suspected of attacking transients while they slept alone and setting them on fire.
