SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom overruled a parole board’s decision to free Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten on Monday, marking the third time a governor has stopped the release of the youngest member of Manson’s murderous cult.
The amount of snow blanketing the Sierra Nevada is even larger than the 2017 snowpack that pulled the state out of a five-year drought, California water officials said.
News outlets report Smoothie King announced that it closed the stores in Charlotte after the receipts were issued Sunday.
Actresses Mia Farrow and Patricia Arquette were among those who criticized Diocese of Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin.
The warrants are related to the criminal investigation of Flint’s lead-contaminated water in 2014-15 and an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease.
Kevin Spacey made an unusual appearance Monday at a Massachusetts courthouse where his attorney demanded access to the cellphone of the young man who has accused the actor of groping him in 2016.
A U.S. aircraft carrier the White House ordered to the Mideast over a perceived threat from Iran remains outside the Persian Gulf amid efforts to de-escalate tensions between Tehran and Washington.
A resignation email the gunman sent hours before a fatal shooting was brief, unremarkable and didn’t contain anything that foreshadowed the rampage, a Virginia Beach official said Monday.
The parents of a 5-year-old Minnesota boy who survived being thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America decried the assailant’s actions as “evil” while saying they forgive him at a hearing Monday where a judge handed down a 19-year prison sentence.
Authorities have identified a woman who plunged to her death while snapping photos from a Northern California waterfall overlooking Lake Tahoe.
Authorities say eight people were killed when a box truck and a passenger van collided in a head-on crash on a rural Mississippi highway.
Oregon will ban restaurants from automatically offering single-use plastic straws under a measure passed by lawmakers, making it the second state to enact restrictions on plastic straws.
The Food and Drug Administration’s first broad testing of food for a worrisome class of nonstick, stain-resistant industrial compounds found substantial levels in some grocery store meats and seafood and in off-the-shelf chocolate cake, according to unreleased findings FDA researchers presented at a scientific conference in Europe.
A Louisiana Catholic school principal has been arrested after visiting a strip club while on a school field trip to the nation’s capital.
Thousands of gravely ill cancer patients each year seek access to treatments that are not yet on the market. The government wants to make this easier and give more heft to the requests.
