Additional bodies will likely be found in the debris of an apartment explosion and fire in Maryland that has already claimed three lives and injured more than 30 people, police said Friday.
A 16-year-old girl used her last words after being stabbed in her Los Angeles-area home to scream the name of the ex-boyfriend she broke up with two weeks ago, helping make him a suspect in her death Friday, according to the lieutenant in charge of the investigation.
The 82-year-old Oglala Sioux member whose attempt to rechristen South Dakota's highest point for a revered tribal spiritual leader fell on receptive federal ears said Friday that the decision was a sign of compassion and reconciliation.
Iowa boards overseeing doctors and psychologists considered Friday whether to adopt a policy that would ban state-licensed professionals from counseling gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender children to change their sexual orientation in a practice known as conversion therapy.
Investigators probing the killing of a New York City woman who went for a run near her mother's home in central Massachusetts and was found dead in the woods Sunday have received about 450 tips.
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.
A federal court in Wisconsin on Friday overturned the conviction of a man found guilty of helping his uncle kill Teresa Halbach in a case profiled in the Netflix documentary "Making a Murderer."
A panel of judges has rejected an appeal for a new trial for a Pennsylvania man convicted in the 2002 strangulation deaths of a pharmacist and his girlfriend.