San Diego County will pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a man who died after he was beaten, shocked with a stun gun and hogtied by sheriff’s deputies in 2015.

A man considered one of the chief aides to convicted drug boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman has pleaded guilty in Chicago federal court to distributing more than 150 kilograms of cocaine and more than 30 kilograms of heroin.

Native American boarding school survivors of abuse and their descendants shared memories and tears in Arizona on U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s yearlong “Road to Healing” initiative.

A jury has rejected a woman’s allegations that a former police chief in Virginia and three other officers protected a prostitution ring that she said trafficked her.

Police are investigating after gunfire erupted at a Kansas City funeral home, leaving three people with gunshot injuries and another with minor injuries.

A delegation led by the highest-ranking woman at the United Nations has urged the Taliban during a four-day visit to Afghanistan to reverse their crackdown on women and girls.

The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld a lower court judge’s ruling that sided with state employees who fought back against a government dress code banning blue jeans.

A 28-year-old St. Louis man who spent six years in jail on a murder conviction has been freed after prosecutors dismissed the case against him.

Baltimore’s new top prosecutor Ivan Bates announced Friday that he’ll personally prosecute a defendant who was jailed on murder charges last year when he allegedly strangled his deaf cellmate to death.

A group of police officers and paramedics are scheduled Friday to enter pleas in Colorado court to charges in the death of a 23-year-old Black man who was forcibly restrained and injected with a powerful sedative.