The Tennessee Senate has approved legislation designed to restrict where certain drag shows can take place, marking the latest bill state Republican leaders have advanced targeting LGBTQ people.

Police are investigating a car theft and the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy found inside by the car’s owner after an exchange of gun shots over the weekend.

The attorney for a man who was executed this week is calling for an investigation, accusing Missouri officials of moving ahead with the lethal injection while federal appeals were pending.

Two students at a Catholic high school in Philadelphia who allegedly were responsible for a racist video that showed teenage white girls in blackface “are not present in school” and are being disciplined.

Authorities say workers at a boat factory in Minnesota subdued an armed person who was later taken into police custody.

Some 114 Haitian migrants have made landfall in the Florida Keys, continuing an uptick of people making their way from Haiti and Cuba by sea, the U.S. Border Patrol say.

A Georgia prison warden has been arrested on charges stemming from a state investigation of corruption inside the penitentiary he supervised.

A New York City police officer wants his badge back after federal prosecutors dropped charges alleging he worked as a foreign agent for China.

Officials are asking about railroad safety after a fiery derailment in Ohio generated a huge plume of smoke and forced evacuations in a small town because of concerns about the toxic chemicals the train was carrying.

A broadcast reporter was pushed to the ground, handcuffed and arrested for trespassing Wednesday while covering a news conference about the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in Ohio.