In the murky depths thousands of feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, two Japanese warships that have rested undisturbed since the Battle of Midway in World War II have been discovered.
The anonymous tip to the Winston-Salem Police Department came in June. A caller said a cellphone video posted on social media showed two women with dementia at an assisted living center being encouraged by workers to fight each other, authorities said.
Dog owners have reported this summer that their pets became fatally ill after swimming in freshwater lakes and ponds, apparently after ingesting water laden with toxic blue-green algae.
The National Academy of Sciences moved this week toward a landmark shift in policy that would allow it for the first time to eject members who have violated its code of conduct, including in cases of sexual harassment.
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, a Republican, came under criticism from state Democrats on Friday for suggesting that teachers on strike were to blame for the shooting of a 7-year-old girl who had stayed home because of school closures. The remarks were the latest to ignite controversy for the governor, who faces low approval ratings before an election in November.
The police in Charlotte, North Carolina, have released body-camera video of the fatal shooting of a man by one of their officers last month, saying they are investigating whether the officers provided enough aid to the man before medics arrived.
A man has been charged with aggravated assault for allegedly beating up a transgender woman in an attack of “mob violence” in Dallas that is being investigated as a possible hate crime, authorities said.
For nearly a decade, hundreds of letters that Staff Sgt. Vincent J. Rogers Jr. wrote home have been displayed at a California museum, bearing witness to the transformation of a New York teenager into a World War II radio operator deployed in the Pacific.
A strong winter storm will spread across much of Colorado and parts of the central United States on Wednesday, sending hurricane-force winds and heavy snow across the region, meteorologists said.
A strong winter storm will spread across much of Colorado and parts of the central United States on Wednesday, sending hurricane-force winds and heavy snow across the region, meteorologists said.
A strong winter storm will spread across much of Colorado and parts of the central United States on Wednesday, sending hurricane-force winds and heavy snow across the region, meteorologists said.
A Florida jury Thursday found a former police officer, Nouman K. Raja, guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a black man who had been waiting for help on a highway after his car broke down, lawyers for the man’s family said.
In 2015, Jesse Vroegh, a registered nurse working in an Iowa prison, asked his employers at the state Department of Corrections to allow him to use the men’s restrooms and locker rooms at work because he was transitioning from female to male.
A Florida state attorney said Friday he would seek the death penalty against the man charged in the fatal shooting last month of five women at a SunTrust bank branch in Sebring, Florida.
After Tennessee’s governor granted clemency last week to Cyntoia Brown, a 30-year-old woman serving a life sentence for killing a man when she was a teenage trafficking victim, her supporters applauded the decision, calling her the face of hope for others serving long sentences for crimes they committed as children.
Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee on Monday granted clemency to Cyntoia Brown, commuting her life sentence for fatally shooting a man who had hired her as a prostitute when she was a teenage sex-trafficking victim.
Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee on Monday granted clemency to Cyntoia Brown, a 30-year-old woman serving a life sentence for fatally shooting a man in 2004 who had hired her as a prostitute when she was a teenage sex-trafficking victim.
Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee on Monday granted clemency to Cyntoia Brown, a 30-year-old woman serving a life sentence for fatally shooting a man in 2004 who had hired her as a prostitute when she was a teenage sex-trafficking victim.
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