An attacker stabbed five students on the campus of a California university on Wednesday and was later shot and killed by police, school officials said.
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Lawyers for Kim Davis — the Kentucky county clerk who spent six days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples — have filed an appeal to the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals asking to reverse rulings they claimed trampled her religious rights.
A woman suspected of driving her car into a homecoming parade crowd at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater was formally charged on Wednesday with second-degree murder and assault in the incident that killed four people and injured dozens.
An American Airlines flight from Phoenix to New York was diverted to Wichita,Kansas because of a disruptive passenger, the company said on Wednesday.
France is lifting its ban on men who have sex with men from donating blood, the French health minister announced Wednesday.
The death of Fox Lake, Illinois, police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz was “a carefully staged suicide,” Lake County Major Crimes Task Force commander George Filenko said Wednesday.
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc is now linked to 35 confirmed E. coli food poisoning cases in Oregon and Washington, state officials said late Tuesday.
A federal judge sentenced a St. Louis County man to five years in prison for trying to burn down a store in Ferguson, Missouri, during riots after a grand jury declined to charge a white officer who had killed an unarmed black 18-year-old.
A 9-year-old boy was shot and killed Monday in Chicago and police say it isn’t clear whether the child was targeted or was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
A cyclone with hurricane-force winds made landfall on Yemen’s Arabian Sea coast on Tuesday, flooding the country’s fifth-largest city Mukalla and sending thousands of people fleeing for shelter.
The U.S. Department of Education found a Chicago-area school district discriminated against a transgender student by failing to provide her full access to girls’ locker rooms.
GoPro’s new camera looks a lot like Polaroid’s, according to a lawsuit.
Former professional wrestler James “Superfly” Snuka pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of his former girlfriend, the Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney’s Office said.
An Indian court on Tuesday jailed a driver of U.S.-based ride-hailing company Uber for life for raping a passenger, in a case that highlighted the dangers faced by women from violent sex attackers.
The Federal Communications Commission has fined Hilton Hotels for stonewalling an investigation into whether it blocked customers’ personal Wi-Fi hotspots.