A day after Senate Republicans ruled out taking action on any Supreme Court nominee he puts forward, President Barack Obama on Wednesday vowed to move ahead with a selection who will possess an “independent mind” and grasp how laws impact people’s lives.
A small plane carrying 21 people including two foreigners has gone missing in west Nepal, an airport official said on Wednesday.
A Swedish doctor who authorities said imprisoned a woman for six days in a windowless cement bunker has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, a Stockholm district court said Tuesday.
A 26-year-old man shot his parents and two sisters to death at a house in Phoenix early on Tuesday before he was killed by police who entered the residence as it was on fire, law enforcement officials said.
Federal authorities made two arrests and significant seizures after a yearlong investigation of illegal sales of “spice,” a controlled substance, from smoke shops in northwest Arizona and New Mexico.
Eleven followers of jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, including members of the sect’s leadership, have been arrested on charges of food stamp fraud and money laundering.
The Michigan Uber driver charged with murdering six people changed vehicles after sideswiping a car at the start of the shooting spree, authorities said on Tuesday, adding that they hoped his phone would help establish a motive for the killings.
A Colorado jury on Tuesday convicted a woman of attempted murder and assault for stabbing a pregnant stranger and cutting her fetus from her womb, after luring the victim to her home with an online advertisement for free maternity clothes.
It was a regular Saturday night out in Kalamazoo. A father and son looking at cars. A group of friends ready to go home after a night out. All of them had their lives cut short over the weekend by a shooting rampage in the Michigan city. Each one was cut down in by a person who fired indiscriminately while driving from location to location.
An Uber driver charged with murdering six people has admitted to the fatal weekend shootings in Kalamazoo, Michigan, media reports said on Monday.
Authorities are investigating the deaths of 13 bald eagles discovered on a Maryland farm in the state’s largest die-off of the national bird in 30 years, officials said on Monday.
Bill Cosby’s wife of a half-century was set on Monday to face questioning by lawyers for seven women who accused the comedian of sex assault and sued him for defamation after a federal judge rejected her bid to avoid a deposition.
A weekend traffic fatality was reported in the Colorado river community of Topock in northwest Arizona.
Companies that built, distributed and sold the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting could bear the responsibility for the crime if a lawsuit is allowed to move to trial.
Lawyers for Bill Cosby’s wife, Camille, filed an emergency motion late on Saturday to allow her to avoid sitting for a deposition scheduled for Monday.
