Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz resigned after a grand jury recommended he be removed from office and indicted him on two misdemeanors, the Tulsa World newspaper reported on Wednesday.
rj-has-vdo
Volkswagen, the world’s biggest automaker, is in crisis over its rigging of diesel engine emissions tests in America and Europe.
A Kentucky county clerk who had been jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples secretly met Pope Francis in a move that disappointed many liberal Catholics and encouraged officials who support her stance.
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office has decided not to file vehicular manslaughter chargers against Caitlyn Jenner in the fatal crash that left one person dead in Malibu earlier this year.
Salvors who picked over a Civil War gunboat probably thought the cannons were with the rest of the wreckage in a South Carolina river. Instead, three mighty artillery pieces belonging to the CSS Pee Dee were back upstream.
After a five-hour delay, Georgia death row inmate Kelly Gissendaner was executed early Wednesday morning for her role in the killing of her husband.
Russia launched air strikes against targets in Syria on Wednesday in the Kremlin’s biggest intervention in the Middle East in decades, telling the U.S. air force to steer clear while its warplanes were in action.
Citing a recent onslaught of what she calls “verbal abuse,” “Girls” creator Lena Dunham has announced she’s bowed out of Twitter and now allows someone else to post on the social media channel for her.
A soccer referee in Brazil has given new meaning to the pistol formation, pulling a gun on players and coaches in a recent game in an incident that was caught on video.
Joaquin, formerly a tropical storm, has strengthened into the third hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Wednesday.
Comcast Corp said on Tuesday it will launch a trial of a video streaming service with content from online video networks such as Walt Disney Co’s Maker Studios, aiming to target younger viewers who have an appetite for Web videos.
Parents who packed a Clark County School Board meeting late Tuesday overwhelmingly voiced their opposition to changing a policy that trustees can’t change.
A Chicago teacher isolated a 5-year-old special-needs student and forced him to wear a plastic trash bag over his clothes, his mother told the Washington Post.
A 9-year-old girl was denied her inhaler during a coughing fit at school in West Jordan, Utah because staff were not notified of the child’s prescription, Jordan School District officials said Monday.
The father of a Washington state teen who went on a deadly shooting rampage at his high school last October was convicted on Tuesday of federal gun charges, prosecutors said.
