The 31-year-old would be the fourth prisoner executed this year in the nation's busiest capital punishment state.

Authorities say Freddiericka Terrell was in or near the school's auditorium when she reportedly showed the gun to a group of students during a JROTC class on Wednesday.

An indictment released Wednesday claims 46-year-old Douglas James Duchak of Colorado Springs tried to damage the computer after he was told his job was being eliminated.

An elderly woman has been arrested after animal control officers found 60 dogs in crates inside her small Lakeside home east of San Diego.

A Russian-speaking immigrant who police say may have been practicing dentistry without a license for years in Oregon has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a man believed to be a patient.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Greg Palmore says they were arrested Tuesday at Fremont Beef for immigration violations.

A Southern California letter carrier who is a registered sex offender has been reassigned after concerns were raised that he was delivering mail in an area with many children.

A 7-year-old boy who called 911 while armed robbers threatened his parents hugged and delivered a high five to the dispatcher who took his call.

Cindy Hickey had rehearsed what she would say to her son when she finally got to talk to him months after he was detained in Iran.

Dr. Frank Minyard said Wednesday that the autopsy of 54-year-old Douglas Schantz found a lesion on his forehead as well as evidence of drowning.

Eleven adopted and foster children who were forced by an Ohio couple to sleep in cages have reached a $1.2 million settlement with the county where they once lived.

Many law enforcement officers called up to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan are finding it difficult to readjust to their jobs once home.

After gathering items from around the building, he is believed to have gone to the basement to spend the night.

An ex-Marine acquitted on charges of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees has sued a Southern California city over not being rehired as a police officer.

A judge has dismissed most of the remaining legal claims in a dispute between the children of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., months after the siblings reached a settlement.

A Georgia judge has barred authorities from releasing crime scene and autopsy photos of a 24-year-old University of Georgia graduate killed while hiking.

The self-described "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden is a rare case of an American woman aiding in foreign terrorism and shows the evolution of the global threat.

Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather apologized for his choice of words on Sunday's Chris Matthews Show when we used an analogy of selling watermelons on the side of the road to describe President Obama and healthcare.

Authorities say five of the six people killed in an Arizona bus crash were California residents, and all were Mexican citizens.

Workers are breaking up a huge boulder threatening to tumble down a cliff onto Interstate 70 in western Colorado, days after a rock slide that closed the highway indefinitely.

A 33-year-old Burbank middle school teacher accused of having sex with a teenage male student over a six-month period last year was charged on Tuesday with unlawful sex with a minor, MyFoxLA.com reported.

A flight bound for the Dominican Republic has returned to an airport gate in Miami because of an unruly passenger.

This year could be the "tipping point" when the number of babies born to minorities will outnumber that of babies born to whites, demographers said.