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A Muslim cleric in Maryland, who has openly endorsed the Islamic State terror group and funded at least one Muslim convert who was arrested for buying illegal explosives, has not been charged or arrested because, according to authorities, he hasn't broken any laws.

An overheated Samsung device created smoke that caused a plane to be evacuated at Louisville International Airport on Wednesday, an official said.

A man armed with a machete at the University of Colorado's sports complex was shot Wednesday morning by police and has since died, officials said.

Another former Detroit public school principal has been sentenced in a bribery and kickback scheme involving a former district vendor.

Officials in South Carolina and South Florida urged residents Wednesday to begin to prepare for evacuations and stock up on supplies as Hurricane Matthew picked up speed approaching the Eastern seaboard.

Reports of menacing clowns have been spreading across the U.S., fueled largely by social media, and authorities say they are being forced to take them seriously as a potential threat to public safety, particularly at schools.

A Georgia death row inmate convicted of killing an Atlanta police officer in 1997 is scheduled to be executed later this month.

A Boston man authorities say held a gun to an undercover police officer's head, and an accomplice allegedly involved in an exchange of gunfire with police, have both been held on $500,000 bail.

Zachary Camhi, a 25-year-old classical musician and Boston University grad student who disappeared on a trip to New York City, was found safe, the university announced Tuesday.

A white University of Mississippi student is withdrawing from school and publicly apologizing for his Facebook post about lynching people who were protesting the killing of a black man by North Carolina police officers.

A former Navy lieutenant who worked as a contractor for the same cyberoperations firm as infamous leaker Edward Snowden was secretly arrested by the FBI in recent weeks in connection with the theft of highly classified hacking codes from the National Security Agency, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.

Two Colombian nationals have been extradited to Los Angeles to face federal charges of overseeing shipments of thousands of pounds of cocaine in Central and South America that ended up in the United States.

State regulators said Wednesday they fear some water districts in drought-stricken California have abandoned conservation efforts as saving has dropped off significantly.

Ongoing training and engagement are the keys to success for all concerned in the franchising relationship.

The fate of a white police officer who shot and killed a mentally ill black man with a knife is now in the hands of a jury.

The Latest on a trial involving a Georgia man charged with murder after his toddler son died inside a hot SUV (all times local): ___ 2 p.m.

A man has been sentenced to life in prison in the shooting death of a Kansas bride as she left her reception in her wedding gown.

American University’s student government is pushing back against a faculty resolution that embraces freedom of speech, launching a #LetUsLearn campaign that demands mandatory trigger warnings at the top of each syllabus.

The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign (All times EDT): 2:05 p.m.

People from Townville, South Carolina, throughout the Upstate, and beyond donned capes, cowls, and superhero-themed clothes on Wednesday to say goodbye to Townville Elementary School shooting victim Jacob Hall.