The United States and Canada — the two countries most often mentioned as possible leaders of an international armed force to help Haiti combat gangs – are showing no interest in deploying security personnel despite renewed appeals from the United Nati…

A young passenger of an SUV involved in a head-on collision on a Texas highway that left seven others dead remains in critical condition.

Four people have been charged in the alleged rape of a Louisiana State University student who authorities say was assaulted, then left in an East Baton Rouge sub-division, where she was then struck and killed by a motor vehicle.

For those who made their way to the Star Ballroom over the years, Ming Wei Ma was a bright light, always smiling and encouraging those who came to the Los Angeles area dance hall popular with older Asian Americans.

Forecasters have issued a tornado emergency for areas near Houston as a powerful storm heads toward the Gulf Coast.

A jury for the trial of an Indiana man accused of killing two teenage girls nearly six years ago will be selected from a northern Indiana county of over 300,000 people.

Cannons boomed and pirates galore swarmed downtown Tampa, Florida, in a prelude to this weekend’s Gasparilla Pirate Fest “invasion” and parade, expected to draw up to 500,000 revelers to the shores of the bay.

Oklahoma’s highest criminal appeals court has agreed to slow the pace of executions at the request of the state’s new attorney general.

Police say a Florida couple had a murder-suicide plan but after fatally shooting her terminally ill husband, she was unable to follow through and take her own life.

An Arizona judge says she won’t compel Scottsdale to resume an arrangement that allowed residents of a neighboring community to get their water from a city standpipe.