A driver plowed into two police officers outside a Phoenix gas station on Tuesday and proceeded to scuffle with a third policeman who managed to get out of the way in what the police chief denounced as a "violent, intentional act."
A transgender soldier imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks says she is ending a hunger strike because the Army has agreed to allow her to get medical treatment for her gender dysphoria.
A New York college student has died of a rare brain infection she probably contracted while swimming in a body of fresh water in Maryland, health officials said.
Attorneys representing the family of a woman fatally shot by police following a standoff she posted on social media filed a wrongful death suit Tuesday.
Cinemark has dropped its request that victims of a 2012 shooting at a Colorado movie theater pay nearly $700,000 in legal fees after they unsuccessfully sued the theater chain.
The Latest on the disappearance of a Missouri woman and the background of a man accused of burning her car that had been found abandoned (all times local): 5 p.m.
A New Jersey ghost story got spookier on Tuesday when authorities announced the discovery of badly decomposing human remains inside a long-shuttered police headquarters in an area that locals already believe is haunted.
The deal crafted by the U.S. and Russia to halt the Syrian civil war and focus efforts on rooting out extremists in the country is rife with legal and liability questions that are fueling Pentagon skepticism about military cooperation between the two powers, senior U.S. officials said.
An Oregon man and his girlfriend accused of intentionally running down a black teen after an altercation face new charges for targeting the victim because of his race.
A school bus driver helped evacuate nearly two dozen children from a bus after the vehicle caught fire Monday north of the nation’s capital in suburban Maryland.
Nashville prosecutors are asking the judge who sentenced a former Vanderbilt football player to 15 years in prison for his part in a gang rape to order a new sentencing hearing with a different judge.
