Nutria — the large, semi-aquatic rodents native to South America — have become so invasive in Louisiana that the state wants them shot on sight, offering a $6 bounty for their tails.

A defense attorney says a person charged with fatally shooting five people and wounding 17 others at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs last year was at the venue for more than an hour earlier that night before carrying out the mass shooting.

The public will be able to visit the Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park starting this weekend following repair of storm damage to the Generals Highway.

Native American dancers who were the target of a suburban Phoenix gallery owner’s racist rant as they were being filmed for Super Bowl week are pushing for hate crime charges.

Alex Murdaugh’s housekeeper has testified at his double murder trial that the she never saw the shirt and shoes the disgraced attorney was wearing in a video hours before his son and wife were killed after their deaths.

Police in North Carolina have released body camera footage that shows the arrest of a man who died after being stunned repeatedly with stun guns.

The U.N.’s human rights chief is urging the international community to consider deploying a specialized force to Haiti.

Violent crimes across the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota have increased in recent years.

Before Demetrius Haley pulled Tyre Nichols from his car on Jan. 7, the officer was accused of taking part in the savage beating of an inmate at the Shelby County jail.

Authorities in Maryland have arrested a man accused of shooting two police officers and stealing a detective’s vehicle during a 39-hour manhunt.