The son of a Northern California woman still missing after the arrests of four people suspected of kidnapping her says he is baffled why anyone would abduct his mother for ransom.
Indianapolis Metropolitan police are investigating after they say a man shot up an officer’s house on the east side of Indianapolis early Tuesday morning.
A man accused of killing a woman and injuring a police officer and two others when he shot at passing cars along a Tennessee highway last week was indicted Tuesday on charges including murder and attempted murder, authorities said.
A search warrant for surveillance video from the store where a black Louisiana man was killed by white police officers a week ago says that officers saw "the butt of a gun" in Alton Sterling's pocket during the arrest and that he tried "to reach for the gun from his pocket."
Authorities say a man accused of killing a woman and injuring a police officer and two others when he shot at passing cars along a Tennessee highway has been indicted on charges including murder and attempted murder.
The Georgia NAACP is criticizing civil rights icon Andrew Young for calling some demonstrators "unlovable little brats" in a speech to Atlanta officers, saying Young should instead join the protesters in demanding police reform.
Guam's archdiocese is reviewing how it responds to allegations of sexual abuse against church officials after the archbishop was accused of assaulting boys in the 1970s.
Newly unsealed documents reveal that disgraced former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno may have known about then-assistant coach Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of children as early as 1976, but didn’t do anything about it so he could focus on his team.
A 9-year-old girl who spotted a newborn baby wrapped in a towel in her backyard is a "guardian angel," a sheriff said, after the girl's mother alerted Indiana police who helped get the baby to a hospital.
Relatives of Philando Castile, the Minnesota man shot and killed by a police officer last week, announced they hired a former TV court show judge to represent them in civil matters, and were expected to announce funeral plans Tuesday.
The Latest on protests in Louisiana over the shooting death of a black man in a struggle with two white Baton Rouge police officers (all times local): 11:30 a.m.