Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, says he expects a grand jury report being released Tuesday on the sexual abuse of children by clergy in six Pennsylvania Roman Catholic dioceses to be critical of his actions as the former longtime bishop of Pittsburgh.
As he tours one California fire site after another this summer, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has pressed for more active forest management while throwing cold water on the climate-first approach.
Melissa Howard, a Republican candidate for the Florida Legislature, apologized Monday for saying she had a college degree that she didn’t complete, but said she will stay in the race “and lead by example from now on.”
Democrats in Virginia have filed a lawsuit to try to remove an independent candidate from the ballot in a tight congressional race. The Democrats filed their suit Monday against the state and its election officials. Democrats claim the petitions to place Shaun Brown on the ballot were riddled with forged signatures and other problems.
Gov. Rick Scott is declaring a state of emergency across parts of Florida that have been overrun by a toxic algae bloom that is killing fish and emptying beaches and restaurants.
A Utah man flew a small plane into his own house early Monday just hours after he had been arrested for assaulting his wife in a nearby canyon where the couple went to talk over their problems, authorities said. The pilot, Duane Youd, died. His wife and a child who were in the home survived despite the front part the two-story house being engulfed in flames, Payson police Sgt. Noemi Sandoval said.
Police say an attorney who argued 30 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court has been fatally shot during a domestic altercation inside his suburban Chicago home.
Authorities say two of five inmates who escaped from an Alabama jail have been recaptured.
Defense rests in fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort without calling witnesses.
A New Jersey school superintendent who resigned after he was accused of repeatedly defecating on another high school's track is receiving more than $100,000 from his school district.
One person has been killed and two others injured in a shooting near a Boston police station.
Maine's supreme court has upheld the convictions of a man who killed a couple and set fire to their home during a crime spree in 2013 in northern Maine.
Authorities have arrested a man suspected of fatally shooting someone at an east Omaha convenience store.
Anchorage police are investigating a shooting death.
Here are excerpts from recent editorials in Oklahoma newspapers:
A civil rights group says federal immigration officials are violating the rights of immigrants seeking legal status by setting a deportation "trap" at their required interviews.
A special police unit is seeking to curb burglaries and thefts from businesses including recreational vehicle companies in northern Indiana.
A 19-year-old Louisiana man has pleaded guilty to killing his grandfather and another man.
The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the murder conviction of a woman whose forced prostitution as a teenager was cited as a factor leading to her involvement in the fatal shooting of her pimp during a robbery.
A Dutch investigating judge has ordered a 34-year-old homeless man to be detained for a further 14 days on suspicion of an arson attack on the Turkish consulate in Amsterdam.
Police say an online romance scam led them to the discovery that a North Carolina woman was plotting to kill her 88-year-old mother who she lived with.
A U.S. judge on Tuesday denied a request by notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to move his trial as a way to alleviate the public spectacle created by the intense security measures being used to transport him to court.
A correctional officer at one of North Carolina's most dangerous prisons is facing charges she smuggled drugs to inmates.
Here are excerpts from recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers:
An Ohio man convicted of murder in the death of his 3-month old daughter who was found dead on a closet shelf has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 15 years.
A Georgia police chief said an officer was justified in using a Taser to stun an 87-year-old woman after she didn't obey commands to drop a knife in her hand.
