A civilian and a soldier have been killed in fighting between troops and rebels in Indian-administered Kashmir, and a bomb targeting an army vehicle wounded 3 soldiers
Officials in Ellicott City, Maryland, say they are heartbroken to see the community so severely damaged by flooding again less than two years after a devastating flood killed two people and caused millions in damages
LeBron James scored 35 points with 15 rebounds and nine assists to earn an eighth straight trip to the NBA Finals, leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to an 87-79 victory over the Boston Celtics in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals
George McPhee has his fingerprints all over Stanley Cup Final as general manager of the Vegas Golden Knights and the executive responsible for acquiring 13 Washington Capitals players
Kyle Busch continued his assault on the NASCAR record book by winning the Coca-Cola 600 and becoming the first driver in modern history to win a Cup points race at every track on the circuit.
A year after a mother and her teenage daughter were murdered in their Kentucky home, a reward for information leading to an arrest in the case has been raised to $50,000. Kathy Netherland, a 48-year-old special education teacher at...
A western New York woman was arrested for killing her husband of 30 years after state police found his body buried in a manure pile on his farm, police said. Charlene Mess, 48, was charged with second-degree murder, just...
A shooting inside the Kia Motors auto manufacturing plant in West Point, Ga. left one person wounded and another in custody after armed officers swarmed the site. The massive plant is on 2,200 acres near the Georgia-Alabama state line....
A teenaged girl accused of collaborating with four others in the brutal 2013 sexual assault of a Florida 16-year-old returned to jail for violating the terms of her pre-trial release, according to authorities in Broward County. Photos of...
A crew of thirsty thieves stole more than $100,000 in bourbon whiskey from two Kentucky distilleries, prosecutors said. Nine people including three distillery workers were indicted Tuesday for their parts in an eight-year heist. Over...
A grandmother wearing only an itsy-bitsy bikini was arrested for alleged drunken driving after she plowed into the back of a stopped car with her 10-year-old grandson in her vehicle, police said. Patricia Ebel, 49, failed several field...
A Georgia man accused of luring a retired couple to their deaths by answering their Craigslist ad for an antique car also targeted other victims by using a throw-away cell phone, court papers revealed. Ronnie "Jay" Towns bought a...
A Raleigh man shot and killed his pregnant girlfriend, who was able to call 911 with her dying breaths, likely saving the life of her unborn, 6-month-old baby, police said. Kimberly Dianne Richardson, 25, was able to muster the...
AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has pleaded guilty in New Zealand to drug possession and threatening to kill an ex-employee. The 60-year-old rocker admitted as part of the plea he offered an associate the choice of a car, motorcycle, $153,000...
A Utah woman who pleaded guilty to killing six of her newborn babies and hiding their bodies in her garage was sentenced to up to life in prison in a case that drew national attention and sent shockwaves through...
Authorities are investigating after a 42-year-old Arlington, Virginia woman was found stabbed to death in her home. Arlington County police found the body of Bonnie Black after they were called to the home when a passerby spotted Black's...
A memorial tree for Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old black man who was killed last summer by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., was found cut in half less than 24 hours after it was dedicated. The tree...
Authorities are investigating two shootings at Delaware State University and are trying to locate the shooter that injured three people at the university-sanctioned cook-out for the historically black college's Greek organizations....
An Oklahoma man says he nearly lost his penis when he woke to find his girlfriend trying to bite it off. A night of drinking and arguing led to the painful arousal when the victim said he found Amber...
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy arrested Cathryn Parker, 72, last month when she allegedly stated the wrong name during a traffic stop. But, when detectives based in the force's Lancaster station investigated further, they...
The number of law enforcement officers shot to death in the line of duty is up by more than 50% this year, and the leading circumstance of those shootings were ambush-style attacks, a nonprofit group says.
The wife of the police chief in Peachtree City, Georgia, is in critical condition with a gunshot wound, the Peachtree City Police Department said Thursday.
The tens of thousands of law enforcement officers who flocked to New York City for the funeral of slain police officer Rafael Ramos showed that civil rights demonstrators have achieved one of their central goals: What was once seen as an...
Despite concluding there was no foul play in the death of a Georgia teen nearly two years ago, a sheriff's office conducted additional interviews on the case as recently as this month.
Connie Lay made an unusual request in her will before she died last month in Aurora, Indiana: She asked that her German shepherd, Bela, be euthanized and buried with her.
I've heard that the Senate report on CIA torture is 6,000 pages long. My story, though, takes place elsewhere: in Guantanamo, away from the CIA program that the report covers. The 6,000 pages of the Senate report are just the start of...
Trayvon Martin. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. The list of names of black men killed by white men who have subsequently gone unpunished -- and in the case of Brown and Garner, untried -- continues to grow. In each of these cases, an ugly...
After obtaining warrants and cracking a password, police were able to access Jessica Chambers' phone records and are following up on leads, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Scott Panetti dressed in a purple cowboy outfit and called Jesus, John F. Kennedy and the Pope to the stand in his trial for the 1992 slayings of his mother and father-in-law.
The day after Michael Brown was killed by a police officer, Syreeta Myers drove from her South City home to the northwest suburb of Ferguson. She marched on the street demanding justice for Brown's death. She wanted to stand by his parents.