The pregnant wife a prominent Chinese dissident has arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area with her 4-year-old son to live for at least one year as refugees.
A record terrorism-related forfeiture order benefiting families of some Sept. 11 victims and others was reversed on appeal Wednesday, leaving in doubt what will happen to a $1 billion Manhattan office building at the center of the legal case.
Authorities are trying to determine the relationship between a teen boy and a 13-year-old girl he's accused of killing after her body was found in the Northern California home where they both lived.
Blazes in the U.S. West have blocked a major route to Yellowstone National Park during tourist season and tore through a mobile home park in Utah, leaving residences destroyed and people displaced.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday that leaders at a counter-Islamic State meeting expressed concerns about what happens after the expected defeat of the militant group, and whether countries are ready to help stabilize and rebuild the war-torn cities in Iraq and Syria.
High temperatures and humidity will bake much of the central U.S. this week, making it feel as hot as 115 degrees in some places and leading some cities to open cooling stations and take other precautions.
A physician associated with a company that provides health care for Mississippi prisoners has been indicted on bribery charges arising from a scandal involving the state's former corrections commissioner.
An elderly Pennsylvania woman convicted of poisoning her son's girlfriend with antifreeze leaving her near death deserves a new trial because of ineffective legal counsel, a judge has ruled.
Authorities say an inmate at a Florida courthouse managed to get a jail deputy's handcuff key four days after a murder suspect escaped from the same building.
A man who stopped by his newly purchased Southern California home expecting to find its previous owners packing up instead stumbled on one of them dead in a bedroom.
Former Baylor defensive end Shawn Oakman has been indicted by a Texas grand jury on a charge of sexually assaulting a woman at his apartment earlier this year.