A 44-year-old man described as a transient is jailed without bond after authorities said he drove a car into two police officers outside a Phoenix gas station and then scuffled with a third officer who managed to get out of the way.
An affidavit from a federal agent says a man suddenly lunged toward his 6-year-old daughter and stabbed her in the chest as two park rangers approached them along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina.
An Alabama couple charged with sexual torture is accused of assaulting a man renting a room in their home with a metal pole and a garden hose, officials said.
The mother of a 10-year-old girl found dead and dismembered in her New Mexico home told police that she sought men online to sexually assault her daughter.
The governing body for fraternities at the University of Richmond has cancelled this weekend's scheduled fraternity events after the Kappa Alpha chapter was suspended over an email described as "grossly offensive." The Interfraternity Council said in a statement that the council wants to "re-evaluate and assess current community practices." The group stressed that it stands firmly against sexual violence and "perpetuations of toxic masculinity." The Kappa Alpha chapter was suspended this week after its members sent an email that included what the school called "grossly offensive language." The email was obtained by the school newspaper, The Collegian (http://bit.ly/2cTl4rX).
Authorities say an Arkansas county jail inmate who escaped custody while awaiting medical treatment at a hospital was later found naked and hiding underneath a log in a nearby wooded area.
A 4-year-old Ohio boy pictured in police photos in the back seat of a car while his grandmother and her boyfriend were slumped over from a drug overdose is moving in with other relatives.
A Florida judge has revoked the bail of a 19-year-old man accused of impersonating a doctor after he was arrested in Virginia on charges he tried to illegally buy a car.
An appellate panel that ordered Missouri to reveal its supplier of lethal injection drugs is giving the state another chance to make its case to shield that information.
A federal judge wants the defense and prosecution each to provide a list of potential witnesses as jury screening begins in Dylann Roof's trial stemming from the Charleston church shootings.