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Seven months after axing their own seawater desalination plant project -- and five months from when a water crisis is expected to surface -- Corpus Christi City Council voted 6-2 Tuesday to begin preliminary talks with a new company to build a ...

Police say a man accused of shooting five people, killing two, in back-to-back shootings at a shopping center and an apartment building in suburban Dallas has been charged with two counts of capital murder.

The Mississippi Court of Appeals has revived a lawsuit against Rankin County deputies over the 2021 death of Damien Cameron.

The Orleans Parish School Board voted on Tuesday to accept an agreement on a funding battle that district officials said funneled around $135 million away from schools and towards municipal expenses, settling a 2019 lawsuit filed against the city of ...

U.S. prosecutors say a plain glass-clad building in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood was a secret Chinese spy outpost, with orders to silence, harass and intimidate pro-democracy dissidents in the U.S.

A jury has began deliberating in the retrial of a former sheriff's deputy in Ohio charged with murder and reckless homicide in the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. in 2020.

A new University of Vermont extreme weather monitoring station opened in Lyndonville on Tuesday, the first in a planned network of monitoring stations to help fill gaps in extreme weather predictions and response.

Virginia Sen. L. Louise Lucas has carved out a reputation as a fierce and outspoken advocate during her political career, including on the issue of marijuana legalization.

Richland County voters on Tuesday backed a move by their three county commissioners and preserved a ban on wind and solar power by a thinner margin than partisan politics may suggest.

It's easy to read into Lindsey Vonn being among the 48 athletes nominated to the U.S. Alpine ski team for the upcoming season.