A University of California, Berkeley sophomore who was among the 20 hostages killed over the weekend by militants in Bangladesh is being remembered as a kind and smart young woman.
Police on Tuesday sought to question a man in connection with the killings of two homeless men and the stabbing of a third over the Fourth of July weekend.
The 94-count fraud indictment against a Texas lawyer and six co-defendants could be shorter when trial begins on federal charges accusing them of inflating a client list for BP oil spill litigation.
The Mega Millions jackpot reached an estimated $454 million ahead of its next drawing on Tuesday evening, making it potentially the 7th largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
No criminal investigation is planned after a worker at a federal laboratory in Colorado was accused of intentionally manipulating test results, which could taint research on energy and toxic chemicals.
Authorities say two North Carolina men who were thwarted from traveling to either Syria or Yemen to join a jihadist group have been sentenced to federal prison.
Dismissing an appeal on a technicality, Georgia's highest court granted a victory to a Ku Klux Klan group that has been seeking for years to participate in a highway cleanup program.
There is still no settlement in a lawsuit filed by two women who claim their rights as victims were violated in a case involving teenage girls and a wealthy, well-connected South Florida sex offender.
A sheriff's deputy is out of a job after going on social media to disparage people involved in a brawl that left one man dead and six other people shot, stabbed or beaten.
A defense attorney apparently plans to appeal an eight-year prison sentence for a Kentucky accountant who spent most of six years as a fugitive in an $8.7 million embezzlement case roaming the Appalachian Trail.
Two of the world's richest businessmen are ringing in their silver anniversary today. Their friendship wasn't always 'Oreos for breakfast' and heart-to-heart calls. The mogul mates got off to an 'awkward start.'
Rhode Island state police won't release their report into dozens of sexual abuse allegations at a prestigious boarding school because the matter is being investigated in other states.