A Catholic religious order that has spent more than a century providing free hospice care to the dying poor filed a federal lawsuit this week against New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, charging that a state transgender-rights law forces the sisters to choose between their faith and their mission, or face f...

A veteran California political journalist who has covered Rep. Eric Swalwell since his days on the Dublin City Council says the congressman's alleged behavior toward women "was known by all levels of our local government and the Alameda County Democratic Party", and has been since shortly after Swal...

A 14-year-old boy in Atlanta now sits in juvenile detention, charged with murder after a 12-year-old was shot and killed inside a southeast Atlanta home Saturday afternoon. The shooting happened, police told local media, while the two boys were playing with guns in a bedroom. Atlanta Police Departme...

Donald Eugene Fields II, a 61-year-old man who spent nearly two years on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of child sex trafficking. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri announced the plea, which carries a minimum sentence of...

Brian Hooker, the husband of missing American woman Lynette Hooker, tumbled into the ocean during his own arrest by Bahamian police, just days after he reported his wife fell from their small boat and vanished in rough seas near Elbow Cay. His lawyer says he had to be rescued from the water by the s...

For more than three decades, investigators in rural Arizona treated the disappearance of Christina "Tina" Marie Plante as a likely abduction. She was 13 years old when she walked away from her home in Star Valley on May 15, 1994, telling people she was headed to a nearby horse stable. She never came...

A Sherburne County jury convicted 26-year-old Eric Leif Jordahl of first-degree murder Thursday for killing his mother, 62-year-old Rosalie "Rose" Johnson, inside their home on July 23, 2020, a case marked by details so disturbing they defy comprehension. The conviction carries an automatic life sen...

A Tulare County sheriff's detective was shot and killed Thursday morning while serving a routine eviction notice in Porterville, California, after a suspect who had apparently been lying in wait opened fire on deputies in what became an hourslong standoff. The gunman, identified as David Eric Morale...

An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper, a 36-year-old woman, and a 4-year-old child are dead after a vehicle crossed the center cable barrier on Interstate 35 in Oklahoma City and slammed head-on into the trooper's northbound patrol unit Wednesday morning. Investigators are now asking the public to help...

Jakhi Lodgson-McCray, a 22-year-old Brooklyn activist, stood in federal court Wednesday and admitted he scaled a fence into a locked police parking lot in Bushwick and set fire to 11 NYPD vehicles, an act that caused more than $800,000 in damage and now carries a mandatory minimum of five years in f...