A judge wants a South Carolina mother who police say put her 4-day-old baby in a refrigerator for hours, killing him, to have a mental evaluation before he decides whether to set bond.
Prosecutors in Northern California have charged three current and former officers for their alleged involvement in a wide-ranging police sex scandal involving a teenager.
A man who served prison time for a murder-for-hire plot in 2004 has been convicted of aggravated murder and other charges in a contract killing two years later in which a hired killer went to the wrong home and killed someone with the same name as the intended target.
A main gas line is expected to restart Wednesday with a temporary bypass after a leak and spill in Alabama led to surging fuel prices and some gas shortages across the South, a company official said Tuesday.
A pair of well-dressed thieves, two homeless men, a bar owner – and some incredible luck – combined to limit the casualties in weekend terror attacks in New Jersey and New York, and the bungling bomber himself also made numerous mistakes that helped foil his plans.
A German scholar who assessed most of the nine Minnesota men convicted of plotting to join the Islamic State group is scheduled to testify in federal court in Minneapolis.