An Ohio mother has been charged with child endangerment after her 2-year-old son dropped some 10 feet into a zoo’s cheetah exhibit over the weekend.
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A white South Carolina patrolman charged with murder for shooting a black man in the back as he fled after a traffic stop will not face the death penalty if convicted, a prosecutor said on Monday.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday said Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine, had a right to weigh in on two lawsuits challenging how Missouri conducts executions.
One former employee of the private Blackwater Worldwide security company was sentenced Monday to life in prison and three others to 30 years each behind bars for their roles in a 2007 mass shooting in Baghdad that left 17 people dead.
Jury selection started on Monday in the trial of an Oklahoma teenager who has been charged with murdering an Australian student on a local university’s baseball team as he was jogging in the southern part of the state in 2013.
A Los Angeles-bound Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency landing at a Seattle-area airport on Monday afternoon after it took off with a worker trapped in a cargo area under the cabin, the U.S. carrier said.
The Tulsa County deputy who shot and killed a man instead of using his Taser now faces a manslaughter charge.
An Arizona judge sentenced former waitress Jodi Arias to life in prison with no possibility of parole on Monday for shooting and stabbing her ex-boyfriend to death in 2008.
The passenger killed in a crash at a Walt Disney World Speedway race-car attraction has been identified as an instructor who was riding in a Lamborghini that hit a guardrail after the driver lost control, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Police are looking for additional suspects after a woman was gang raped on spring break at Florida’s Panama City Beach in view of hundreds of people.
The defense attorney for a former deli worker accused of murdering a missing New York boy in 1979 argued on Monday that his confession was unreliable and that prosecutors failed to present evidence of his guilt.
The Boston Marathon course will be a “no-drone zone” this year, Massachusetts authorities said on Monday as they outlined security plans for the race that was the target of a deadly bombing attack two years ago.
A Milwaukee driver was fatally shot, along with a teenager at the scene, after he hit a toddler who had run into the street, police said on Monday.
A male employee at Wayne Community College in Goldsboro, North Carolina, was the target of a fatal shooting on Monday, said authorities, who continued to search for a man they called a “person of interest” in the case.
A 1-year-old child was shot and killed Sunday, possibly by a toddler, after a firearm was left unattended, authorities in Cleveland said.
