A man caught on video spraying gunfire into a crowd outside a nightclub, injuring five people, was ordered held on $1 million bail Monday while insisting he was defending himself during a fight with other people.
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A man died over the weekend after jumping into a huge ceremonial bonfire at a Utah event similar to the Nevada countercultural festival Burning Man, authorities said.
A 23-year-old member of the Utah Army National Guard killed a Utah State University student and one other person before fatally shooting himself in Logan, police said Monday.
Egypt presented a cease-fire plan Monday to end a week of heavy fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip that has left at least 185 people dead.
The Church of England has voted to allow women to enter its top ranks as bishops at its meeting in York in northern England Monday.
Job losses at Trump Plaza when the Atlantic City casino shuts down in September will be even worse than expected.
The shipwrecked Costa Concordia was successfully refloated Monday in preparation to be towed away for scrapping, 30 months after it struck a reef and capsized, killing 32 people.
Bowe Bergdahl, the Army sergeant who spent nearly five years as a Taliban captive in Afghanistan, was returned to regular Army duty Monday and will be made available to Army investigators for questioning about his disappearance in 2009.
A 25-year-old Kansas City man gets two suspended sentences and 120 days in jail for a hit-and-run accident that killed a 57-year-old motorcyclist whose wife and daughter were killed by a drunken driver two years earlier.
A man who fatally shot a rookie officer responding to a report of an armed robbery call early Sunday never tried to rob the drugstore and instead lay in wait for police to arrive, telling a witness to watch the news because he was “going to be famous,” authorities said.
For the second day in a row, lightning has been blamed in the death of a visitor at Rocky Mountain National Park.
Because our celestial neighbor is relatively close to Earth, the full moon will appear to be unusually large.
Efforts to eliminate extra pay for teachers who earn advanced degrees are gaining momentum in a small but growing number of U.S. schools, stirring a national debate about how best to compensate quality educators and angering teachers who say the extra training is valuable.
Police in Maine believe they have quacked the code for finding followers on social media.
Harry Potter actor David Legeno was found dead in Death Valley Sunday. Legeno, 50, famously appeared as werewolf Fenrir Greyback in multiple Harry Potter movies.