The U.S. government has denied a request from a group of environmental organizations to immediately apply proposed ship-speed restrictions in an effort to save a vanishing species of whale.

Authorities say a wanted man was killed and three deputies were wounded Monday morning in an exchange of gunfire in western Kansas.

A Milwaukee man accused of killing two people and wounding three others when he allegedly opened fire at a Memorial Day picnic in 2006 has been found dead in his jail cell.

The office of Oklahoma’s new attorney general confirmed is taking over two separate criminal investigations into alleged misuse of public funds at state agencies, including the tourism department’s contract with a barbecue restaurant.

Memphis is on edge ahead of the possible release of video footage of a Black man’s violent arrest that has led to three separate law enforcement investigations and the firings of five police officers after he died in a hospital.

Two sisters survived after a car driven by their father went into a lake in western Michigan.

Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh is about to put his fate before a small-town jury.

A joyful kickoff to the first Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park since before the pandemic was marred by tragedy after a gunman opened fire inside a dance hall, killing 10 people in the majority Asian city near Los Angeles.

The only survivor of a Kansas house fire that killed a woman and two young girls has been arrested on suspicion of setting the blaze.

One of the world’s most prestigious and storied surfing contests was going forward Sunday in Hawaii for the first time in seven years.