A Georgia death row inmate convicted of killing a 73-year-old doctor is set for execution next month
Former residents of a rundown, low-income California apartment building that caught fire and killed four people last month have filed a lawsuit against the building's owners and managers
A boy found doused in chemicals inside his father's pesticide truck while his dead twin sister decomposed in the back would receive the remainder of a $5 million settlement under a bill passed by Florida's lawmakers
Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown was either an entitled, corrupt politician who used a charity for poor kids to line her own pockets or a befuddled, aging lawmaker whose own trusted adviser betrayed her
A central Missouri man whose body likely was found in a crate encased in concrete in a dumpster might have been missing for months before the group home where he lived reported that he was gone, a sheriff said
A federal judge has struck down a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have permission to admit patients to a nearby hospital, citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision against a similar Texas law
US launches unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile in test of the weapon system
Police say an Ohio woman who was kidnapped and kept trapped in a small pit in her neighbor's shed had reported receiving harassing phone calls and text messages from him
Police say a Delaware state trooper who was shot outside a convenience store has died
Maine's Republican governor wants to make public the names of those who are hired to film undercover footage of animal cruelty
Visitors who ooh and ah at the Audubon Zoo's newest baby will be saying the little colobus monkey's name: Ua. That's "flower" in Swahili
Officials say a wildfire on public lands near the Georgia-Florida state line has blackened 115 square miles (298 sq. kilometers), having doubled in size since last weekend
Police in Michigan would no longer be legally allowed to have sex with prostitutes during undercover investigations under legislation making its way through the Legislature
A San Francisco-based renewable energy company wants Mississippi regulators to approve a $1.4 billion power transmission line that would carry electricity from wind generated in Texas to the Southeast
A prosecutor said he will not charge three police officers who shot a man 19 times, saying for the first time publicly that the man had a gun when he was killed