A former University of Colorado student avoided prison time when a judge sentenced him on a sexual assault conviction, leading critics on Thursday to compare his case with the light sentence for ex-Stanford swimmer Brock Turner.
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a convicted killer spent too much time in solitary confinement after throwing a bucket of feces, urine and hot water at corrections officers.
The city with Iowa's highest African-American population has settled lawsuits against white police officers who roughed up three black residents, including a 13-year-old girl who was handcuffed after yelling at a passing officer to "slow down." Videos obtained by The Associated Press in two of the cases show questionable uses of force by Waterloo officers at a time when interactions between police and minority residents around the country are being scrutinized after several high-profile deaths of blacks at the hands of police.
A boulder the size of a house tumbled onto a highway in Utah's Zion National Park after a major thunderstorm, partially closing the roadway during the popular summer season.
A Mississippi woman who once sought to disguise a planned journey to join the Islamic State group as her honeymoon was sentenced by a federal judge Thursday to 12 years in prison on a terrorism charge.
A child was reportedly conscious but had to be airlifted to a hospital after falling from a roller coaster at a western Pennsylvania amusement park Thursday afternoon, officials said.
The Latest on the sentencing of a Mississippi woman who pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization, the Islamic State group (all times local): 12:45 p.m.
Jerry Sandusky's lawyer says the former Penn State assistant football coach will testify during an upcoming appeals hearing about whether he was improperly convicted four years ago.
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge for time to complete a plea agreement with a former New Orleans police officer charged in connection with the cover-up of deadly shootings by his colleagues after Hurricane Katrina.
The lawyer for a man who lodged an excessive force complaint against the Florida cop who mistakenly shot and killed a 73-year-old woman Tuesday said he'd warned people the officer “was going to kill somebody.”
