One of two partners in an alleged massive fraud involving development projects in Vermont says he's reached a settlement with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission.
Two college students have been sentenced for kidnapping a turkey that had to be euthanized this week, five months after being found reeking of beer with a broken toe and missing feathers.
A tropical storm left parts of Hawaii's Big Island soggy but intact Thursday as residents of the island state prepared for a second round of potentially volatile tropical weather.
Authorities say a deputy who fatally shot a hospital patient wielding a metal sign post also was involved in the death of an inmate last year shot with a stun gun.
Police in the Boston suburb of Arlington say they arrested the baby sitter for a 3-year-old boy after officers found her stumbling around a neighborhood drunk and high on prescription drugs with the child in tow.
Authorities are adding a charge against an Alabama man accused of setting fire to a turtle after officials determined the reptile is an endangered tortoise.
Authorities have released the names of four Alaskans and a Montana man who were killed in a midair collision of two small planes in western Alaska, and responders said Thursday that rough terrain is complicating efforts to recover the bodies.
A polygamous sect member who believes writing to imprisoned sect leader Warren Jeffs is essential to his eternal salvation will be allowed to continue sending monthly letters while he awaits trial on food stamp fraud charges.
Dallas police Chief David Brown announced his retirement Thursday, bringing an end to a tenure marked by police unions that at one time demanded his resignation and by widespread praise for his response to a July sniper attack that killed five officers.
A former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman will be released from jail after serving half a six-month sentence that critics denounced as too lenient.