Florida lawmakers can fine local government officials who attempt to restrict gun and ammunition sales under a state law upheld by the state Supreme Court.

A detention hearing has been scheduled for a felon and failed political candidate suspected of orchestrating a series of drive-by shootings at the homes of four elected Democrat officials in New Mexico.

A man has told jurors in his federal criminal trial that a death threat he made against U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner came from God.

A small group of South Carolina senators are moving to shield large parts of the state’s lethal injection process from public scrutiny.

A $3 million settlement will establish a fund for former students as part of a lawsuit alleging abuse and deprivation of education at a now-shuttered Pennsylvania juvenile justice facility.

Charges against a New York City police officer accused of spying on behalf of China have been formally dropped after U.S. prosecutors said they uncovered new information that warranted the dismissal.

The office of Florida congressman Greg Steube says he sustained several injuries in an accident at his home on Florida’s Gulf Coast.

After recent storms, some Californians are taking stock of the rainwater captured by cisterns, catches, wells, and underground basins.

Long-standing tensions over a planned Atlanta police training center boiled over Wednesday when a protester was killed and a Georgia state trooper was wounded during a confrontation.

For days, authorities said, a woman experiencing a mental health crisis walked the streets of a Detroit suburb with her children, knocking on doors, asking for food and sleeping outside.