Authorities say a Phoenix woman has been arrested in her daughter's death after giving the toddler methamphetamine in an effort to counteract the methadone she had consumed from an open container.
Two consultants who worked with a Native American tribe on its plans to open the nation's first marijuana resort have been charged with drug offenses, South Dakota's attorney general announced Wednesday.
Alabama's parole board decided Wednesday against freeing a one-time Ku Klux Klansman convicted in a church bombing that killed four black girls more than 50 years ago.
A Detroit man has been arrested after buying explosives from an undercover agent, amassing weapons and talking about carrying out an attack, federal authorities said.
Police in an Atlanta suburb say they're searching a house as they investigate the gunshot deaths of two teenagers whose bodies were found behind a grocery store.
St. George's School has agreed to a settlement over sexual abuse allegations that would provide compensation for up to 30 former students, the elite Rhode Island boarding school announced Wednesday.
In the midst of a five-hour standoff that turned deadly, Facebook granted an emergency request from the Baltimore County Police Department to take offline the social media accounts belonging to a woman who wielded a shotgun at officers.
Officials are asking for help in finding the people who started an illegal campfire that grew into a massive wildfire north of Big Sur that has destroyed dozens of homes and killed one person.
A Pittsburgh man jailed on charges he shot another man in the face three times tells police the fatal encounter was an accident that happened while he was trying to buy a gun from the victim.
A 23-year-old woman in Oregon was taking photos of her friend jumping into a river when she suddenly slipped -- and plunged 90 feet off a cliff to her death, investigators revealed Monday.