David K. Smith, the owner of a towboat that discharged oil into a river along West Virginia and Kentucky, has pleaded guilty to a federal pollution charge.
Michael Queensland, a former Senate clerk in Wisconsin, has resigned following allegations that he forced himself onto an unconscious woman at a hotel.
Cameras installed next year in the California cities of Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco, Long Beach and Glendale will automatically cite and ticket speeders going 11 mph or faster over the speed limit.
A South Carolina boy is dead after falling from a golf cart while riding along a road in Summerville, officials said. His death remains under investigation.
Joran van der Sloot says he killed Alabama 18-year-old Natalee Holloway with a cinderblock in May 2005 when she turned down his unwanted sexual advances.
Rochester police have found and identified the body of 16-year-old Jakarah Lopez-Moore nearly two months after she was last seen leaving her apartment on Aug. 27.
U.S. troops living overseas or in Alaska and Hawaii are bracing for another round of cuts to their overseas cost-of-living (OCOLA) allowance next month.
Two Alaska Wildlife Troopers spotted two deer stranded in cold waters as they were boating to Ketchikan, Alaska. The troopers helped the deer aboard and dropped them at a nearby island.
A Florida man took some unusual steps to evade police in Lakeland, first scribbling a whiteboard message before hiding from officers in a modified chest of drawers.
In 2019, a 17-year-old fatally shot a mail carrier in the stomach when the New Mexico worker was trying to defuse an argument. The teen, now an adult, has been sentenced to prison.
Laor Abramov's mother, Michal Halev, made a desperate call for peace after her 20-year-old son was murdered in Israel after Hamas terrorists ambushed a party he was attending.
Indiana authorities have identified the remains of a man who was likely the ninth victim of a long-deceased murder suspect who had the remains of possibly 25 people on his property.
The United States Department of Justice is looking into the police department of Trenton, New Jersey, following allegations that officers have violated civil rights.
Kevin Berry, 58, was taken off life-support and declared dead Tuesday evening, days after suffering critical injuries in an alleged road rage shooting in Florida. Daniele Hamilton, 58, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.