The defense team for the man convicted of murder and featured in the podcast "Serial" is expanding ahead of a new trial with help from a major law firm.
Water levels are starting to recede in central and eastern China Thursday following a week of heavy downpours that broke levees, flooded cities and villages, halted public transportation, and left at least 181 people dead or missing.
A lawyer who represented former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky at his child sex abuse trial is set to plead guilty in a case charging him with attempting to evade federal income taxes from 2006 to 2010.
A Pennsylvania woman has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for having sex so loudly it shook her neighbor's furniture, then threatening her row house neighbors for complaining.
Two boys arrested with BB guns in a park were ordered to write essays about Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old who had a pellet gun when he was fatally shot by Cleveland police outside a recreation center.
A 40-year-old Florida man drowned after diving into Pensacola Bay to escape sheriff's deputies who were investigating the theft of a cellphone from a bar.
An emotional, at times angry, evening unfolded in the working class, predominantly black Louisiana neighborhood where the police killing of a black man was caught on videotape.
Authorities say a 27-year-old man turned himself in to Fort Lauderdale police after his mother recognized him in surveillance video circulated by detectives who were looking for a suspect in a string of drug store robberies.
A man accused of videotaping children changing their clothes at a popular Pennsylvania amusement park and editing the images into a movie at has admitted to trading child pornography.
The Department of Veterans Affairs says that an average of 20 veterans a day committed suicide in 2014, a slight decrease from a previous government estimate for 2010.
Authorities in San Diego said Wednesday that another homeless man was seriously injured and set on fire by an attacker police say struck while the man was sleep in the latest spate of attacks on transients that have left at least two dead.