The families of the victims slain at the Pulse nightclub will get the most money from a fund established to help the victims' families and survivors of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Kenneth and Colleen Shults want to permanently welcome a foster child into their Fairmount, Ill., home, but claim in a federal suit filed this week they are being forced to surrender their Second Amendment rights to do it.
A fire station has reopened in South Carolina's capital, days after its then-captain threatened on Facebook to run over protesters if they still blocked traffic when his shift ended.
A federal grand jury has indicted a former Kentucky cardiologist on new charges that he prescribed painkillers that caused serious physical injury or death to three patients.
An Iowa church has asked a federal judge to stop the Iowa Civil Rights Commission from applying portions of a state policy that the church says could force it to abide by transgender bathroom rules and muzzle ministers who may want to preach against transgender or gay individuals.
A man called the "prison Houdini" has a path to freedom after Florida's parole commission voted to release him this month, 36 years after he was arrested for stealing the tools his father bequeathed to him.