U.S.
A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit challenging the display of a portrait of Jesus that had been in an Ohio school for years.
Crime & Courts
Authorities say a Memphis, Tenn.-area teenager has been charged in adult court with setting an April house fire that killed his mother.
U.S.
A Virginia man who was touched by the story of an honest homeless man in Boston has set up a fund for him that's raised almost $150,000.
Crime & Courts
A Washington state man who killed his grandparents with a shoelace after they threw him a party to welcome him home for prison has entered a modified guilty plea to charges of...
Crime & Courts
Lawyers for a Muslim scholar convicted in 2005 of soliciting treason are pressing a judge and prosecutors for information they believe could show that American-born al-Qaida...
West
A clip of a dashboard-camera video released to a newspaper Thursday by the Oregon State Police shows an exchange of gunfire between a motorist and a state trooper that ended...
U.S.
An attorney in the Bell, Calif., municipal corruption case has complained bitterly in court about a judge's decision to allow the chief defendant to plead no contest in an...
CRIME
A Connecticut woman led police on a car chase Thursday afternoon after she tried to breach a barrier at the White House. The woman's car was surrounded by police at one point....
Crime & Courts
One of the two men shot and killed in a deer-hunting camp in northeastern Oregon was the foster father of the 14-year-old boy identified as the shooter, authorities said...
Crime & Courts
A 71-year-old man who spent more than four decades in solitary confinement in Louisiana died Friday, less than a week after a judge freed him and granted him a new trial.