An elevated park that offers a new view to visitors at the World Trade Center opened Wednesday, built atop a security center that screens vehicles and overlooking the memorial to those who died in the Sept. 11 attacks.
A former police officer in Virginia has been released from jail, days after he was sentenced in the fatal shooting of a man who was holding his hands up.
Rhode Island's Director of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday he was “speechless” after seeing photos of American flags strewn in a pile, one by a trash bin and one by a shed in a blatant violation of protocol, at a veterans cemetery in Exeter.
A snake as long as a car was spotted feasting on an animal believed to be a beaver on a riverbank in Westbrook, Maine early Wednesday, according to police who warned people in the area to watch out.
The police were called to a New Jersey elementary school after a 9-year-old boy made a disparaging comment about the brownies he was eating at an end-of-the-year class party.
Investigators said Wednesday they believed three missing crew members aboard two freight trains that collided head-on in the Texas Panhandle did not survive.
Republican students at a California school are declaring victory after campus officials on Tuesday dropped plans to punish them in connection with an event that featured conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
An attorney defending the man accused of fatally shooting nine black parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina, says a state prosecutor is making reckless misstatements by implying a federal death sentence might not be carried out.
The University of Connecticut on Wednesday revoked an honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby, saying he engaged in conduct "incongruent" with the university's values.