The Coast Guard is giving up its search of a section of the Gulf of Mexico for a crewmember missing from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Former federal security officer has pleaded guilty to killing two strangers and wounding two others during shooting rampage in Washington, D.C.'s suburbs
Jurors in Virginia have failed to reach a verdict in a civil case over a police-involved shooting
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
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
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
A Georgia pastor has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for molesting two teenagers who attended his church in coastal Brunswick