The former leader of the Michigan House and his wife have pleaded not guilty to financial charges arising from an investigation of how they spent money from unregulated political funds

A candidate seeking the Republican nomination for a central North Carolina congressional seat has announced she’s suspending her campaign days before her primary runoff election

Wisconsin authorities are promising a thorough investigation into a police shooting that they said killed an armed student outside a middle school

A bill to legalize sports betting in Minnesota is in serious trouble, running afoul of the partisan rancor over the arrest of a state senator on a felony burglary charge

A Mississippi judge granted a request Thursday by the widow of a deceased man who vanished under mysterious circumstances to set standards for a future independent autopsy of her late husband’s body

Captain sentenced to 4 years for criminal negligence in fiery deaths of 34 people aboard California scuba dive boat

Alabama has authorized the execution of a second inmate by nitrogen gas

Torrential rain is causing flooding in the Houston area

Part of Interstate 95 in Connecticut will be closed for days after fiery crash damages bridge, governor says

The National Transportation Safety Board says a witness saw smoke coming from one of the engines of an old military plane that crashed last week shortly after taking off on a flight to deliver fuel to a remote Alaska village