Smoke plumes roiling from flaming ridges of the San Bernardino Mountains blew all the way across the Mojave Desert to Las Vegas as California's latest big wildfire chewed through timber and brush Monday.
A white man who apparently called police to complain about "hoodlums" near his house was charged with murder after he shot and killed a black man outside, authorities said.
A white man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a black man after apparently calling 911 to complain about "hoodlums" outside his house.
Smoke plumes roiling from flaming ridges of the San Bernardino Mountains blew all the way across the Mojave Desert to Las Vegas as California's latest big wildfire chewed through timber and brush Monday.
A brutally abused infant girl’s incarcerated parents – who have been charged with her vicious assault – will be allowed a final visit with their daughter on Monday before doctors remove the baby from life support.
Hikers and climbers in Utah's Little Cottonwood Canyon Sunday encountered an injured man who told them he had hurt himself in a series of falls and had spent the night weak, dehydrated and unable to leave the area on his own.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he supports the police superintendent's decision to take away police powers from the officers who fired their weapons at the scene where an 18-year-old was fatally shot in the back.
As Father Josiah Trenham prepared to read the Gospel, several parishioners discreetly scooped up their babies, retreated up the aisles of St. Andrew Orthodox Church and out into the spring air, so as not to allow the crying of little ones to disturb the divine liturgy.
Investigators were treating the death of a 10-year-old boy on the world's tallest waterslide as a "civil matter" rather than a criminal incident, a police spokesman said Monday, as the park and Kansas authorities pressed to sort out what caused the tragedy.
