Residents forced to evacuate in Ohio after a train hauling chemicals derailed and later sent up a toxic plume are beginning to trickle home for the first time in several days.

Prosecutors have decided not to charge a former Wisconsin state senator who was involved in a car crash that left a Pennsylvania woman and her 5-year-old daughter dead.

A former worker at a federal women’s prison in California has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for sexually abusing an inmate.

An immigration judge has ordered a commercial truck driver from Ukraine to be deported, six months after he was acquitted of causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire.

More than 200 students walked out of class at an Alabama high school after they say they were told by school leaders to omit certain relevant events from an upcoming student-led Black History Month program.

Dennis the Menace has been found.

A Vermont man has until summer to remove all unpermitted structures at a gun training center in Pawlet that was built without zoning approval.

A New Orleans woman says in a federal lawsuit that she was illegally blocked from a state senator’s Twitter account after posting comments critical of the lawmaker’s anti-abortion efforts.

A lawyer who called Alex Murdaugh one of his best friends has testified on behalf of the disgraced lawyer who is standing trial for allegedly killing his wife and son.

Every New York City mayor has battled rats.