The U_S_ Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeals of two brothers who were sentenced to death for four fatal shootings in a soccer field in December 2000 known as “the Wichita massacre.”.

Californians are steeling for more rain from the latest of a series of powerful storms sweeping the state.

The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to keep key a border crossing from Turkey to Syria’s rebel-held northwest open for critical aid deliveries for another six months.

The Virginia teacher who authorities say was shot by a 6-year-old student is known as a hard-working educator who’s devoted to her students and enthusiastic about the profession that runs in her family.

Seven people went to hospitals after a roof collapsed on bathers at an Idaho hot spring.

With a Monday strike deadline looming, contract negotiations are continuing between three large New York City hospitals and the nurses’ union.

Officials in a West Texas city have lifted an order that had called for its more than 131,000 residents to boil their tap water before drinking or using it.

A South Carolina priest who served in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston is facing federal sex crime charges stemming from allegations that he abused an 11-year-old child.

Investigators for a Michigan sheriff’s office believe a man shot and killed his two children and their mother before killing himself.

A woman who ran away from home in Alabama at the age of 20 to join the Islamic State group in Syria says she is a victim of the militant organization and hopes to return to the U.S. even if it means serving prison time.