Attorneys for a Native Hawaiian man imprisoned for more than 20 years after his conviction for the 1991 sexual assault, kidnapping and murder of a white woman visiting the Big Island will ask a judge Tuesday to dismiss his conviction due to new evidenc…

Authorities say a gun battle at an Oakland gas station has killed one person and wounded seven others in the second shooting Monday night in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Jury selection is continuing in the murder trial of South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, who is accused of the 2021 killings of his wife and son.

U.S. officials say they are still far from agreement with Mexico over that country’s plans to ban imports of genetically modified corn for human consumption.

A petition outlining new evidence in one of Hawaii’s biggest criminal cases asks a judge to release a Native Hawaiian man who has spent more than 20 years in prison for the sexual assault, kidnapping and murder of a white woman on the Big Island.

Officials say at least four people were fatally shot Monday in a Northern California agricultural area and a man suspected in the killings is in custody.

The U.N. humanitarian chief and leaders of two major international aid organizations are in Afghanistan following last week’s visit by a delegation led by the U.N.’s highest-ranking woman with the same aim.

A Missouri man has been sentenced to life plus 13 years in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder in the death of an Illinois officer killed while trying to stop the man from fleeing police.

Authorities say two people have died and three others have been critically injured in a home invasion shooting in a Chicago apartment Monday afternoon.

Attorneys hired by Jay-Z and other entertainers have ended two lawsuits they filed on behalf of Mississippi inmates in 2020 over what they called squalid living conditions at the state’s oldest prison.