Prosecutors in Fort Worth won't seek the death penalty if the 32-year-old estranged wife of an internationally known pianist is convicted of capital murder for the deaths of her two young daughters.
The Pentagon says that a top Islamic State commander believed to have been killed earlier this year was likely at an IS meeting Sunday near Mosul, Iraq, that was hit by an airstrike.
A motorist arrested early Thursday after erratically pacing in freeway lanes waving what appeared to be a handgun is not a shooting suspect wanted in seven Arizona homicides, Phoenix police and the California Highway Patrol said.
A homeless couple was arrested after the woman's three young children were punished by being sent into a California desert without shoes or water, authorities said Thursday.
An appeals court has overturned a 1996 decision and said mug shots of federal criminal defendants can be withheld from the news media in Michigan and three other states.
Schools that also provide meals for students during summer months are finding that adults in the household need the meals as well to keep from going hungry.