U.S. News
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Federal authorities say a doctor and his son were practicing touch-and-go landings when their small plane crashed in Connecticut, killing the father and seriously injuring the son
April 25, 2017 -
A New Jersey police officer who searched for a 3-year-old boy reported missing by his father has testified about finding the child's body in a creek
April 25, 2017 -
Officials in a Massachusetts city are trying to ban employees from using public funds to fly on United Airlines after a passenger was dragged off a flight in Chicago
April 25, 2017 -
Louisiana senators are moving ahead with a bill to end executions in the state, a rare proposal in a Republican-controlled region that tends to favor capital punishment
April 25, 2017 -
A federal appeals court has agreed to re-examine Ohio's new and twice-rejected lethal injection process as the state struggles to resume executions
April 25, 2017 -
An attorney for the family of Tamir Rice says he provided videotaped interviews of the two white officers involved in the fatal shooting of the black boy to news organizations to show inconsistencies in their statements
April 25, 2017 -
A military veteran living in North Carolina has been charged with cruelty to animals and conspiracy, accused in court documents of tying her service dog to a tree and fatally shooting it while a soldier filmed it
April 25, 2017 -
The attorney for a man investigators call the last of Miami's "cocaine cowboys" says he'll plead not guilty to drug smuggling after 26 years as a fugitive
April 25, 2017 -
Former federal security officer has pleaded guilty to killing two strangers and wounding two others during shooting rampage in Washington, D.C.'s suburbs
April 25, 2017 -
Jurors in Virginia have failed to reach a verdict in a civil case over a police-involved shooting
April 25, 2017 -
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the U.S. Navy Blue Angels are meeting for a rare joint training session in the Florida Panhandle
April 25, 2017 -
Lawyers for former NFL star Aaron Hernandez are formally asking that his first-degree murder conviction be dismissed in Massachusetts now that he has died
April 25, 2017 -
A gunman who ambushed two Pennsylvania state police troopers at their barracks in 2014 won't take the witness stand to try to persuade jurors to spare his life
April 25, 2017 -
A Georgia pastor has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for molesting two teenagers who attended his church in coastal Brunswick
April 25, 2017 -
Wildlife officials are warning central Florida residents to stay away from wild monkeys after one was spotted in the area
April 25, 2017