Tyler and Krista Schindley were arrested after their 10-year-old son, who weighed 36 pounds, was found walking around their neighborhood and looking for food, according to reports.
Nearly 110,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2022, the highest number on record, and edging out the total death toll from 2021, according to the CDC.
Republican Riverhead town supervisor declared a state of emergency Tuesday as New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to bus asylum seekers to Long Island.
Four high school students were killed and three others were injured in a crash that occurred in the suburbs of Chicago. The teens killed were between the ages of 16 and 18.
States from the Gulf South, specifically Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, have become a model in education after a series of reforms showed rapid progress in fourth-grade reading.
Maine has removed the suspension on the construction of a 145-mile transmission line, a project that will cost $1 billion. Opponents of the project cited environmental concerns.
Donations and supportive comments have poured into the legal defense fundraiser of Daniel Penny, who faces criminal charges in the death of Jordan Neely in New York City.
Police Officer Areanah Preston was laid to rest at Trinity United Church of Christ. Preston was shot and killed earlier by four teens on a crime spree.
Chicago Police arrested two suspects Tuesday evening in connection to a shooting near Legler Regional Library that wounded a 12-year-old and 16-year-old.
Authorities are ordering residents in Hailey, Idaho, to evacuate as the Big Wood River floods nearby neighborhoods. Eight homes on War Eagle Drive were told to leave immediately.
River Smith, a 21-year-old man from Minnesota, pleaded guilty to possessing a machine gun. Smith told the FBI he was building an arsenal of automatic weapons to use against the police.
Over a dozen California condors have died from bird flu. The U.S. granted emergency approval for the use of a vaccine to prevent the critically endangered species from wiping out.
Randall Phelan, a former tribal leader of the Three Affiliated Tribes, has been sentenced to five years in prison for accepting bribes and kickbacks from a construction contractor.
Brando Castiglione was convicted of fatally shooting Luis Garcia, a pastor at the New England Pentecostal Ministries. Castiglione and Garcia would go to firing ranges together.
Ice jams in two Alaskan rivers unleashed major flooding, which caused widespread damage across several communities. Homes were lifted off foundations or struck by ice.