A Norwegian man charged with threatening police in Maine will be held without bail after telling investigators he was obsessed with the idea of being arrested in America.
Several passengers who rode the waterslide where a 10-year-old boy was decapitated Sunday said that the ride’s Velcro-like straps would come loose, and that at least one lifeguard claimed they were just for show.
U.S. employers advertised more openings and hired more people in June, adding to evidence that the job market has rebounded from a brief soft patch in the spring.
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Ralph Lauren swung to a first-quarter loss as it spends heavily to turn itself around, but the damage was not as bad as many had expected and its shares rose faster than any other Wednesday on the Standard & Poor's 500.
Government investigators have not yet determined how a Ferris wheel seat flipped over at a Tennessee county fair, sending three children plummeting 30 to 45 feet to the ground, but the accident that left a 6-year-old girl with a traumatic brain injury sharpened the focus Tuesday on how carnival ride operators are regulated.
A black man in the running to be Rhode Island's poet laureate says he was racially profiled and unjustly arrested by a white Providence police officer.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the man accused of fatally shooting a special agent has been charged with murder in perpetration of an attempted aggravated robbery.
Miami-Dade County's mosquito control director says the insect's population is dropping in the Miami neighborhood health officials have linked to 21 Zika infections.