The U.S. intelligence community is warning law enforcement agencies around the country of persistent terror threats posed by radicalized Western women.
A judge in New Orleans postponed until Friday a hearing on whether the New Orleans district attorney's office should be barred from prosecuting the man charged in the shooting death of retired Saints defensive end Will Smith.
The Latest on defense attempts to have the New Orleans district attorney's office removed from the case of a man arrested in the shooting death of former Saints player Will Smith (all times local): 10:50 a.m.
The Latest on a state of Maryland proposal to impose the nation's first total ban on letters being sent to prisoners at state facilities (all times local): 11:45 a.m.
Enbridge Energy Partners will pay a $61 million penalty for the costliest inland oil spill in U.S. history -- a pipeline rupture in southwestern Michigan that polluted a nearly 40-mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River, federal officials said Wednesday.
A transgender student has filed a federal lawsuit alleging a Wisconsin school district won't let him use the boy's restrooms and repeatedly uses his female birth name.