A 13-year-old boy was arrested Friday in the stabbing death of a Barnard College freshman who was approached in a park by as many as three youths as she ventured from her New York City campus on the eve of final exams.
Officials from states with strong gun restrictions have called for stricter firearm control in places with weaker laws to thwart traffickers, but the fatal attack on a Jewish market in New Jersey shows how fruitless those efforts can be.
An independent filmmaker calls fees charged by the National Park Service on commercial filming “unconstitutional” in a lawsuit filed this week.
Foreign tourists to the U.S. give birth to 33,000 babies a year — each of them immediately becoming a citizen — according to a new report being released Thursday that puts numbers on the extent to which immigrants make use of America’s birthright citizenship policy.
Civil liberties groups are calling for reforms of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after an inspector general’s report detailed a slew of errors in the FBI’s surveillance of associates affiliated with President Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Relatives of Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine jailed in Moscow, rejected Thursday a top Russian official’s allegation that he threatened a prison guard with an electric drill press.
Lane County District Attorney Patty Perlow announced Friday that a Eugene police officer will not face criminal charges for fatally shooting a man during a physical altercation that she said left the officer “fighting for his life.”
Vigils and church services are planned Saturday in Connecticut to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and remember victims of other gun violence incidents.
Four Chittenden County men have been charged with poaching deer.
Two New York City police officers shot and wounded a man wielding an “imitation firearm" early Saturday in the Bronx, authorities said.
Sudan court convicts Omar al-Bashir of money laundering, sentences him to 2 years in rehabilitation facility.
Hong Kong police said they arrested three men Saturday for testing homemade explosives that they suspect were intended for use during protests.
At least one member of an Afghan militia opened fire on his fellow militiamen early Saturday, killing nine, in what the country's interior ministry called an insider attack.
A Navy commander says the motive is unknown for a Pearl Harbor shooting that left two civilian workers and the attacker dead.
It'd been about a month and one holiday since she'd seen or heard from her older sister when Makayla Blackwell recorded herself singing a song she'd wrote, expressing the love she had for her.
William Lewis joined a gang in Clayton County when he was in high school.
Georgetown basketball players Galen Alexander and Myron Gardner have left the team and plan to transfer as they fight accusations of burglary and harassment.
A Georgia man who was videotaped slapping a female reporter's rear on live TV was arrested Friday on a misdemeanor charge of sexual battery.
During Pope Francis’ recent visit to Japan, Harumi Suzuki stood where his motorcade passed by holding a sign that read: “I am a survivor.”
Video from cameras worn by New York City police officers involved in a fatal friendly fire shooting shows a chaotic nighttime scene as officers struggled with an armed man on the grounds of a Bronx housing project before shots rang out.
A Saudi Arabian student at the University of New Mexico was arrested Friday by federal authorities on accusations of illegal possession of a firearm as a student visa holder after a search of his Albuquerque residence turned up a handgun, according to federal court documents.
A former Massachusetts middle school teacher has been sentenced to five years in jail forsecretly recording a 14-year-old student using the bathroom.
Mexico's most famous living author, Elena Poniatowska, is standing by her claim that she was sexually abused by an older colleague in 1954.
Funeral arrangements have been set for a Houston-area police sergeant who was killed this week while trying to arrest a suspect during a traffic stop, officials announced Friday.
