Six people died early on Friday morning when a charter bus veered off an interstate highway in Arkansas and crashed into a concrete barrier and an overpass, according to state police.
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European investigators who analyzed the two flight recorders from the Metrojet plane that went down Saturday in Egypt are categorically saying the crash is not an accident, CNN affiliate France 2 reported Friday.
A 6-year-old Louisiana boy was killed and his father critically wounded when local police chased and shot at their vehicle Tuesday in Marksville, authorities said on Wednesday.
At least two people were killed and 30 others injured after two dams collapsed at a Brazilian iron ore mine, officials said on Friday, as rescuers searched for the missing under mud and debris from colossal floods that devastated a village.
Former New York prison worker Joyce Mitchell has agreed to pay authorities more than $80,000 for her part in helping two convicted murderers escape.
The number of murders of transgender people in the United States hit a record high this year, activists said on Friday, amid outcry over rising violence in the transgender community.
The United States will boost security for U.S.-bound flights as a precaution following the recent Russian passenger jet crash in Egypt, including tighter screening of items before they are brought on board aircraft, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Friday.
As details unravel following the death of an Illinois police officer, a man who was nearly arrested is breathing a big sigh of relief.
President Barack Obama on Friday rejected the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada in a victory for environmentalists who have campaigned against the project for more than seven years.
A convicted murderer who escaped an Ohio prison more than 37 years ago while serving a life sentence has been captured in St. Paul, Minnesota, the U.S.Marshals Service said on Friday.
A student who attacked four people with a hunting knife at a University of California campus before being shot dead by police was a freshman who had planned the attack out of anger over being kicked out of a study group, authorities said on Thursday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron says it’s “more likely than not.” U.S. President Barack Obama says “it’s certainly possible.” But Russian and Egyptian authorities pushed back Thursday on suggestions that a bomb brought down Metrojet Flight 9268.
MONTEREY, Tenn. — A grieving brother and sister said their parents murder-suicide could have been prevented, and newly released 911 recordings may support that claim.
The signs praising police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz as an American hero have started to come down in the village of Fox Lake, Ill. Gliniewicz has become the main topic of conversation at coffee shops, bakeries and other small business in the quiet community near the Wisconsin border.
A 9-year-old boy targeted by a gang was lured to an alley and shot dead earlier this week in what police on Thursday called a new low in Chicago’s gang violence.