A New Jersey assistant principal has quit his job after being jailed on accusations of secretly video recording teenage boys at a Catholic high school where he volunteered as a coach.

Indiana's top elections official loses his job after jurors convict him of multiple voter fraud-related charges.

A 24-year-old man previously accused of murdering his mother and brother in Southern California has been released after a brief stay in the custody of federal immigration officials.

In the nearly two years since a University of Virginia lacrosse player was charged with killing his ex-girlfriend, it's become easier for possible abuse victims to get a restraining order.

New York City's activist mayor is spending millions of his own money touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague.

The Army on Friday dropped all charges against the fifth soldier it had accused of killing Afghan civilians for sport during a 2010 deployment.

Bradley Manning, the Army private accused in the WikiLeaks scandal, was ordered Friday to face a general court martial on charges he released thousands of documents of classified information.

A man who was declared suicidal by a New Mexico jail and alleges he was then left to rot in solitary confinement for nearly two years is just one of many former inmates who say they were denied essential mental health services while incarcerated at that detention center, which like others across the country has struggled with how to treat the mentally ill.

The man convicted in the deadly Bristow, Va., accident that killed a nun was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison. Police said Carlos Martinelly-Montano, in the United States illegally, was drunk when he slammed his car into another car in 2010.

About $500,000 worth of marijuana was found floating off the coast of Marina del Rey, Calif., Wednesday afternoon, police said.

A firefighter responding to a medical call at a Vacaville, Calif., mobile home came upon a surprise find – thousands of dollars’ worth of tools and equipment that had been stolen from his own home.

It was one of those cases that seemed straight out of pulp fiction, a noir mystery written by one of those hard-boiled scribes who liked to surround damsels in distress with mobsters and movie stars.  Yet it was real life.

Police arrested hundreds of people as Occupy Oakland protesters tried to take over a convention center and YMCA, then broke into City Hall.

A California police officer was shot and killed Saturday by a fellow officer who was trying to arrest him for suspected sexual misconduct with a minor.

Investigators say they've found blood inside the Maine home where a toddler was reported missing six weeks ago.

At least eight sea lions have been found shot to death in the Puget Sound region in recent weeks, wildlife officials say.

Authorities on Friday charged an 18-year-old man with possession of a weapon of mass destruction after they say he and another teenager planned to bomb a Utah high school.

A 4-year-old boy brought nine bags of pot to his elementary school and pulled them out during snack time, police said.

Four alleged members of the Bonanno organized crime family have been charged with include racketeering, gambling and drug sales.