A 26-year-old southwest Missouri man is charged in two counties with shooting at two vehicles and wounding six people, including one man who was in critical condition.
A former Newtown, Connecticut, teacher accused of carrying a loaded pistol in school is asking a state judge to allow him into a probation program that could result in the charges being erased.
Police in New Jersey's capital city have reinstated a curfew for juveniles but it's the decision to drop some of the youth who break curfew off at area churches for counseling that has led to some push back.
The death sentence of the "Grim Sleeper" serial killer put to rest a case that spanned more than three decades, but it leaves another mystery wide open.
Instead of helping, administrators at a Brooklyn Catholic school sicced child-welfare investigators on the family of a 13-year-old boy — who then killed himself after complaining that classmates bullied him, his distraught parents said.
The body of a fourth person was recovered Sunday from the rubble of a Maryland apartment complex that went up in flames Wednesday night, officials said.
Emergency crews plucked motorists from cars stranded by high water along a seven-mile stretch of south Louisiana interstate, pulled others from inundated homes and waist-deep waters and braced for more of the dangerous work Sunday after conducting at least 2,000 rescues.
Police in New York City are searching for the man who fatally shot the leader of a mosque and a friend as they left afternoon prayers, setting off fear and anguish among the community's Bangladeshi Muslim immigrants.
An Iowa man who flew a U.S. flag upside down under a Chinese flag to protest future placement of an oil pipeline near his home has been charged with desecrating the American banner.
A New Jersey woman has settled a lawsuit that will allow her to display a vanity license plate that reads "8THEIST." The settlement was filed in federal court on Friday.