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A Connecticut man who prosecutors say killed his 86-year-old mother and lived in their home with her dead body for several months has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Baltimore police officers responding to the sound of gunshots near an apartment building fatally shot a man who fired at them with an "AR-15-style" gun, a police spokesman said early Friday.

Mourners gather Friday to pay their last respects to a 37-year-old black man shot and killed in an encounter with two white police officers in Louisiana, a killing that helped fuel protests nationwide over the treatment of African-Americans by police.

The mother of a 9-year-old boy fatally beaten in Maryland over a missing piece of birthday cake is set to learn if her statement to police can be used at her upcoming trial.

A former Vanderbilt University football player convicted of raping an unconscious woman with his teammates in 2013 is facing a minimum of 15 years in prison at his sentencing hearing Friday morning.

The sheriff of a county about 70 miles north of Seattle says a restaurant owner has asked that law enforcement no longer dine there.

Officials in New York said Wednesday that the substances used in a makeshift explosive that blew off a teen’s foot in Central Park earlier this month are commonly sold and legally available for sale in hardware stores.

Authorities have described the Dallas sniper as a loner.

Authorities have arrested a West Virginia baby sitter after they say her dog attacked a 2-year-old girl in her care.

The state of Florida cannot use the vague threat of potential budget shortfalls to deny thousands of prisoners kosher meals they request for religious reasons, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

A Southern California mother and her boyfriend were arrested Wednesday after left three young children alone in the desert without water as temperatures nearly reached 100 degrees, officials said.

Baltimore police say a man who fired at officers with an "AR-15-style" gun is dead after officers returned fire.

Court documents show the Pennsylvania State Police have paid $195,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a New York man who spent 29 days behind bars after troopers mistook homemade soap for cocaine.

A man says he will do whatever it takes to keep his pet alligator after Florida wildlife officials told him it was too big to roam in his garden.

In a blue-collar Phoenix neighborhood known for gang and drug violence, Margarito Castro's 19-year-old son Manny was learning to be a welder just like his father.

For decades, Lisa Wond visited the above-ground gravesites of relatives in Hawaii.

A psychologist is expected to be sentenced to six years in prison for the 1995 killing of a man she says raped her while she was a college student.

The U.S. Navy's top admiral is making a three-day visit to China and meeting with his Chinese counterpart at a time when Beijing has rejected an international tribunal's ruling that invalidated its expansive claims in the South China Sea.

Authorities say the 3-year-old son of a Steamboat Springs police officer is dead after he accidentally shot himself at the family's home.

The federal government sued a homeowner for nearly $25 million on Thursday, contending his negligence sparked a 2013 fire in the mountains east of Los Angeles that forced 5,000 people from their homes.