An execution drug obtained by the Arkansas prison system earlier this month appears to have been made by a subsidiary of Pfizer, even though Pfizer has said it doesn't want its drugs to be used in executions.
Veterans' organizations have reached out to help a Korean War-era veteran who authorities say was held hostage in a motel room for four years by a man who stole his benefit checks.
A man was charged with second-degree murder Monday in the death of a young woman who was dressed as the villain Poison Ivy when she disappeared from a Halloween party in southeastern Michigan in 2014.
A Buddhist monk has been sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $260,000 from the Louisiana temple he led and gambling most of the money at a casino.
A small group in Arizona is protesting a decision not to charge a police officer in the shooting death of a woman accused of shoplifting and threatening the lawman with scissors.
The Latest on the upstate New York stabbing death of a woman whose daughter's 2010 disappearance led to the discoveries of 10 people's remains along a highway (all times local): 4 p.m.
A former banana importer already serving a dozen years in prison for distributing drugs has been sentenced in New York to another seven years for stealing $750,000 from his employees' retirement fund.
A man deported to Guatemala a decade ago before he could be arraigned on child rape charges in Massachusetts is back in jail after returning to the United States.
In a case not too far removed from a "Seinfeld" episode, cops in Michigan said a man tried to deposit some 10,000 bottles and cans for 10 cents apiece -- even though they came from out of state, which would violate the law.