An Illinois retirement board is terminating the pension that imprisoned former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert receives for his service in the Illinois General Assembly
A Marine combat cinematographer whose harrowing World War II footage became the basis of an Academy Award-winning documentary short has died
Police in Virginia are looking for the killer of a teenager who was shot while trying to get a used iPhone through the letgo app
State auditors in Missouri found the Ferguson court system "in disarray" during an audit launched amid the unrest following the fatal 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown
A New Hampshire lawmaker accused of creating a misogynistic online forum is resisting calls for his resignation and says he will "stand strong for men's rights."
A man has been wounded and a police chief injured after the suspect gained control of a police car as authorities investigated a report of possible counterfeit money in western Kentucky
A mulch dye that leaked from a company's property is being blamed for turning the waters of a western New York creek a bright red
Nordstrom is getting dragged through the mud on social media for selling a pair of dirty-looking jeans for $425
The Coast Guard has suspended its search in Virginia for a man whose boat sank after taking on water in the Chesapeake Bay
Records show that the body of an inmate who hanged himself at a St. Louis halfway house remained undiscovered for hours while corrections employees streamed movies and skipped security checks
Scientists created an artificial womb enough like mom's to help tiny lambs grow for a month _ boosting hopes that it might one day help extremely premature babies
Florida's highest court will wait to hear all arguments before deciding if Florida's governor had the right to take away cases from a prosecutor who says her office won't seek the death penalty
Authorities in Maryland are trying to determine whether a couple broke the law who posted controversial videos of themselves and their five children
Prosecutors say five inmates serving sentences for child pornography used contraband cellphones and removable storage cards to share videos and images of child pornography in the prison
When an autistic Texas man's favorite video store closed, his parents surprised him by bringing part of it home