A Florida man accused of harassing relatives of victims killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, was arrested on a related misdemeanor charge Monday.
A top Justice Department official Tuesday warned Congress than an approaching deadline for a temporary ban on fentanyl copycats could expire next week and subsequently create a surge of opioid deaths.
The uproar surrounding James Younger, the 7-year-old Texan caught in a parental dispute over whether he should be raised as a girl or a boy, has spilled over into state legislative sessions across the U.S., fueling bills that aim to prevent doctors from using drugs or operations to change the sex of minors.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Trump administration can move ahead with its “public charge” regulation that could block immigrants who wind up on the public dole from earning a pathway to citizenship.
Virginia became the 38th state to approve the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution with the legislature’s vote Monday — but it’s far from clear that the Constitution now has a 28th amendment.
The twin brother of a key administration impeachment witness against President Trump is in charge of the National Security Council’s process for reviewing publications by current and former NSC officials, according to a new report on Monday.
White supremacist Dylann Roof on Tuesday appealed his convictions and death sentence in the 2015 massacre of nine black church members in South Carolina, arguing that he was suffering from schizophrenia and other psychological disorders when he represented himself at his capital trial.
A Connecticut State Police trooper who was charged with assaulting his wife last year has been arrested, police said.
The former president of the union representing workers at the massive Smithfield Foods plant in eastern North Carolina pleaded guilty to helping embezzle more than $200,000 of the local's money.
A Kansas City man was charged Tuesday in the death of his aunt, who authorities said was beaten with a baseball bat earlier this week.
No charges will be filed in an investigation of hazing by football players at a prominent all-boys school in suburban Detroit due to a lack of cooperation from staff and families, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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A Montana man who is charged with killing another man by hitting him in the neck with a tomahawk has also been accused of threatening a witness, the Great Falls Tribune reported Tuesday.
A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection watch commander in the Los Angeles area was ordered to serve 31 months in prison for operating an illegal gun-selling business and other crimes, federal prosecutors said.
A state law requiring a blood test without probable cause in all fatal crashes is unconstitutional, Maine's highest court ruled Tuesday in the case of a trucker fighting a manslaughter conviction.
A U.S. attorney in Tennessee is joining other federal and state attorneys who are urging Congress to extend an order that criminalizes possession of the dangerous opioid fentanyl and related substances.
A 52-year-old Joplin man who authorities said allowed his mother to lie in filthy conditions while she was unable to care for herself was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor.
A man shot and killed himself Tuesday in the reception area of an outpatient medical facility in San Diego, police said.
A three-judge panel has agreed with New Jersey's Supreme Court that a judge who suggested a woman should “close her legs” to prevent a sexual assault should be removed from the bench.
Prosecutors announced Tuesday that they have ended four years of oversight of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis as part of settlement designed to protect children from clergy sex abuse.
An attorney received probation and will be disbarred after pleading guilty to lobbying-related charges that include criminal contempt and obstruction of justice, North Carolina regulators said.
A fight between two men earlier this month in Sioux Falls has turned deadly, police said Tuesday.
A former Louisiana State University student and Phi Delta Theta member convicted in the hazing death of a pledge has waived his right to appeal.
An 18-year-old will plead not guilty and may argue self-defense in a shooting that wounded three people last week at a Las Vegas Strip shopping mall, his defense lawyer said Tuesday.
A Lansing man who owned medical marijuana shops around Michigan has been sentenced to nearly 16 years in federal prison.
