Vermont’s Catholic church has filed for bankruptcy protection as it faces more than 30 lawsuits alleging child sex abuse by clergy decades ago, according to a filing in federal bankruptcy court.

Israel says Iran has fired missiles at Israel. Israel warned Lebanese people earlier Tuesday to evacuate border communities ...

Israel says Iran has fired missiles at Israel. Israel warned Lebanese people earlier Tuesday to evacuate border communities ...

The two major-party nominees for West Virginia governor said Tuesday they have agreed to participate in a debate.

Georgia prisons are “deliberately indifferent” to unchecked deadly violence, widespread drug use, extortion and sexual abuse at state lockups, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday, threatening to ...

Justice Department investigation finds Georgia is 'deliberately indifferent' to unchecked abuses at its prisons.

A 13-year-old girl has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder in the stabbing death of her 7-year-old sister she was babysitting in their Detroit-area home.

Police have arrested a 15-year-old in Iowa in connection with the fatal shooting of a mail carrier in Chicago over the summer. Forty-eight-year-old Octavia Redmond was shot on her route on Chicago's ...

An Arkansas man who died in prison more than two decades ago has been identified as a suspect in the disappearance of 6-year-old girl who went missing in 1995.

Israel says Iran has fired missiles at Israel. Israel warned Lebanese people earlier Tuesday to evacuate border communities ...

State prosecutors will not file criminal charges against a police officer in Alaska’s largest city who fatally shot a 16-year-old girl holding a knife, concluding the officer's use of deadly force was ...

Dead inmate identified as a suspect in the 1995 disappearance of a girl, 6, who was abducted from a Little League field.