Authorities say at least six people were injured in connection with a shooting at a high school in Los Angeles County.

California is plagued with wildfires and intentional blackouts meant to prevent them.

A Canadian man accused of abducting his toddler son in Toronto in 1987 and living on the lam for the next three decades is facing sentencing in the U.S. for illegally obtaining government benefits.

People who knew the 16-year-old boy suspected of killing two students in a burst of gunfire at a high school outside Los Angeles described him as a quiet, smart kid who they’d never expect would violently snap.

A Virginia doctor is headed to court to face allegations that he performed unnecessary surgical procedures on his patients.

A weeklong hearing in Seattle will help determine whether a small American Indian tribe in Washington state can once again hunt whales.

A teacher administering an online test who heard an 11-year-old student say she was hungry and only allowed to eat a small plate of rice each day alerted investigators in Ohio that something was amiss.

A baby boy born in Texas without much of his skin is finally at home after months of treatment and transplants of skin grown in a lab from his cells.

Police investigators are looking into drug overdoses as a potential cause of death among some of the nine students who have died this semester at the University Southern California.

US health experts recommend wider use prescription-strength fish oil to help prevent heart problems.

There’s some surprising news in a federal report released Wednesday: U.S. deaths from drug-resistant “superbug” infections appear to be going down.

Five suspects arrested in the deaths of five people in a shooting at a Halloween party at an Airbnb rental home in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Walmart has quietly hired off-duty officers at its stores in El Paso, Texas, where a gunman killed 22 people in August. The store reopens Thursday amid ongoing lawsuits over safety. It didn’t have a guard in the day of the mass shooting.

Doctors are warning that children are being born into a warming world that may bring them more health problems.

Lawyers for the estate of Jeffrey Epstein want to set up a fund, managed by mediator Kenneth Feinberg, to compensate women who have accused him of sexual abuse.

Authorities are searching for a woman after finding her husband’s corpse in a freezer inside her southwest Missouri home, where it may have been stored for nearly a year.

An independent investigation into the heatstroke death of a 19-year-old football player who collapsed after the first day of conditioning practice at a Kansas community college has found “a striking lack of leadership.”.

A defense expert says the confession by the suspect in the death of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts is not reliable because he was sleep deprived after hours of questioning and susceptible to coercion.

Federal regulators are close to approving a protection plan for corals in the Gulf of Mexico that would create new protected zones designed to allow the corals to grow.

Jimmy Carter’s pastor says the former president was already “up and walking” just a day after undergoing surgery to relieve pressure on his brain from bleeding linked to recent falls.

New research shows cholesterol levels are dropping in U.S., but more people need care.

Paramedics in Portland, Oregon are undergoing mandatory training in defensive tactics after a rash of high-profile attacks against them as they respond to 911 calls for people in a mental health or drug-induced crisis.

Georgia prison officials are preparing to execute a man convicted in the killing of a convenience store clerk.

A new report says the nation's elections are vulnerable to attack due to a lack of robust federal oversight of the private companies involved in manufacturing voting systems and maintaining voter registration databases.

A Connecticut police officer accused a civil rights organization’s leader of trying to “silence conservative voices” by raising concerns about his membership in a far-right group known for violent clashes at political rallies.

An Arizona woman accused of abusing her adopted children who starred on her popular YouTube channel has died.

A federal judge says a Guatemalan family seeking asylum in the United States must be granted attorney access before being returned to Mexico to wait for their next hearing in immigration court.

A former California insurance executive has been sentenced to six months in prison for paying $450,000 to get his son and daughter admitted to the University of Southern California as fake athletic recruits.

California regulators have opened a formal investigation into pre-emptive power outages that blacked out large parts of the state in October, drawing strong rebukes from public officials and residents.

Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has left North America to begin her return trip across the Atlantic aboard a 48-foot (15-meter) catamaran sailboat whose passengers include an 11-month-old baby.

The student body president of the University of Florida is facing an impeachment threat for spending $50,000 of student fees to bring Trump’s son and his girlfriend to campus.

Republican Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky could face a legacy-defining decision once a recanvass of last week’s election is completed Thursday.

California's first-in-the-nation law requiring publicly held companies to put women on their boards of directors faces a second legal challenge.

The discovery of two fossilized dinosaur skeletons intertwined in what looks like a final death match could make a central Montana ranching couple rich beyond their wildest dreams. Or they may have to share the wealth.

New York City police secretly kept fingerprints of children arrested as juveniles on file permanently in a department database until recently.

An arctic blast that caused record-setting cold in the Midwest is now spreading shivers across the eastern U.S.

A Southern California utility has agreed to pay $360 million to settle lawsuits brought by local governments over deadly wildfires sparked by its equipment in the last two years, including one blamed for a mudslide that killed more than 20 people.

Attorney General William Barr is announcing a new law enforcement initiative to reduce gun violence across the U.S.

A man plans to change his not guilty plea in a federal case alleging he illegally manufactured bullets sold to the gunman who carried out the Las Vegas Strip massacre.

U.S. health officials are reporting a breakthrough in their investigation into the cause of an outbreak of vaping illnesses.

A top Democrat says President Donald Trump's $16 billion bailout for farmers hurt by the trade war with China unfairly picks winners and losers, pitting the South against the North and small farms against wealthy producers.

E-cigarette maker Juul Labs says it will stop selling its mint-flavored vaping pods.

A woman who spoke out against Jeffrey Epstein at a July bail hearing was among three more women who are suing his estate.

A federal court in Boston has ruled that warrantless U.S. government searches of the phones and laptops of international travelers at airports and other U.S. ports of entry violate the Fourth Amendment.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been admitted to Emory University Hospital for a surgery to relieve pressure on his brain, caused by bleeding due to his recent falls.

The Wisconsin Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution recognizing National Bible Week.

A federal appeals court has heard arguments to halt the military-funded construction of President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico.

1st attempt in US to use a gene editing tool called CRISPR against cancer seems safe in 3 patients who have had it so far.

The death of nine students since classes began a little more than two months ago has left students and administrators at the University Southern California shaken and seeking answers.

Prosecutors plan to tell a judge why they think a teen who fired on a South Carolina school playground and killed a first-grader should spend his life in prison.