A sickly snake that slithered into a classroom at a New Jersey elementary school has been turned over to a rescue center
Alabama officials say they're forming a task force to address concerns about private information about victims and others being posted to a state website for court records
Among 10 Things to Know: Mexico, Canada ready to renegotiate NAFTA; White House backs off as lawmakers work to avert government shutdown; United raising limit on payments to bumped flyers to $10,000
Testimony is to continue in the fraud trial of Corrine Brown after prosecutors told jurors the former congresswoman from Florida financed a lavish lifestyle of Beverly Hills shopping trips and fancy parties using donations made to a charity
President Donald Trump's call to review 24 national monuments established by three former presidents puts in limbo protections on large swaths of land home to ancient cliff dwellings, towering Sequoias and deep canyons as well as oceans habitat
The father of a Hawaii boy who went missing 20 years ago has led police to the site where he says he dumped his son's remains
Officials say one person was injured and a suspect is in custody after two separate fires were discovered at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas
About two dozen people witness executions in Arkansas, though the term "witness" is a misnomer
Police say an Ohio man accused of kidnapping a neighbor and keeping her trapped in a small pit is to appear in court on a charge of kidnapping
Authorities say a local fire company has opened its doors to serve as a temporary shelter for residents prevented from returning to their homes while police continue to try to negotiate with the suspect in the fatal shooting of a Delaware state trooper
A Tennessee sheriff and the state government of Illinois are among the 2017 recipients of a Virginia free-speech group's satiric awards for what it considers the past year's most egregious offenses
Small business owners don't plan a hiring binge if the Trump administration's plan to lower tax rates becomes law
Police say a man beat an 86-year-old woman to death in an apparently random attack as she walked around a high school track in Northern California
The White House and congressional Democrats on Wednesday defused a tense stand-off over payments for the working poor under the health care law, keeping a massive government spending bill on track just days ahead of a shutdown deadline
The North Carolina legislature seized the initiative in a monthslong effort to weaken Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, overriding his veto of a Republican bill that would reduce the number of judges on the state Court of Appeals