A federal jury returned guilty verdicts against Winston Shrout, a prominent tax protester charged with issuing fake financial documents to banks and the U.S. Treasury
A jury in Las Vegas has deadlocked on federal charges against four men in an armed standoff that stopped government agents from rounding up cattle near Cliven Bundy's Nevada ranch in 2014
A Mexican wolf born this month at a wildlife center in suburban St. Louis is offering new hope for repopulating the endangered species through artificial insemination using sperm that had been frozen
Federal prosecutors have accused a man of conspiring with his wife and mother to traffic three minors for sex in South Carolina to help him make bail
Officials say a wildfire that has scorched more than 70 square miles (180 sq. kilometers) near the Georgia-Florida state line may keep burning for the next six months
An Ohio judge has rejected a request to move the trial of two men charged in a 2015 house fire that resulted in the death of a firefighter
Dallas police say a man fatally shot his female supervisor and then killed himself in an office building
A new study says nearly everybody on Earth has felt some kind of record extreme weather that can be blamed on global warming
A 4-year-old girl fell from the back of a moving church bus onto an Arkansas state highway, but was rescued from the road by a volunteer firefighter who was driving behind
A Tennessee local official has been arrested after police said he choked his girlfriend at a fast food restaurant
Dallas police say an office building is safe after officers responded to reports of an gunman there
A Pennsylvania mother, her son and his 3-year-old daughter have been found shot to death in what authorities say was an apparent murder-suicide stemming from a custody dispute over the child
Alabama police say a man is charged with abuse after allegedly locking two young children inside a trash bin container where authorities found them covered in ants
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a long shot request to reconsider the appeal of an Alabama inmate scheduled to be executed by lethal injection next month
A former winner of California's Mrs. Orange County beauty pageant has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography and lewd acts with a child