A tip-off in a Texas resort town led to the arrest of a woman who investigators believe killed her husband in Minnesota then fled to Florida, where she fatally shot her doppelganger with the intention of assuming her identity, police said Friday.

Human remains discovered in a wooded area have been confirmed as belonging to a missing college student who was the stepdaughter of a well-known UFC fighter, Alabama authorities announced Wednesday. The Auburn Police Department said the Department of Forensic Sciences confirmed the remains belong to Aniah Blanchard, 19. She was the stepdaughter of UFC fighter Walt Harris.

A suburban school bus driver was arrested after she allegedly purchased beer at a convenience store and drank it while picking up students during a morning bus route.

Federal and local authorities arrested a drug dealer in Queens and seized 12 pounds of cocaine, much of it disguised as fruit-flavored candy, prosecutors said.

Dave Johnson, a Brooklyn-based truck driver, had sole winning ticket from a $298.3 million Powerball drawing in December. Pat Battle reports.

Hundreds showed up to mourn the Long Island gas station clerk who police say was killed over $22 of fuel. Checkey Beckford reports.

The man accused of killing three people on a suburban Pennsylvania farm in 2017 has been found guilty of first- and second-degree murder for the shooting death of 19-year-old Dean Finocchiaro.

A jury will now decide the fate of 22-year-old Sean Kratz, the man accused of helping his cousin kill three young men on their family’s suburban Pennsylvania farm more than two years ago.

A young Palestinian man who was shot in the back by Israeli forces in an incident caught on video last year says the footage shows just a small part of what was a horrifying day for him. Speaking to The Associated Press after the video emerged last week, Karam Qawasmi said he was run over by a military jeep, then...

More than two years after “one of the most horrific days,” the man accused of helping his cousin kill four people on a sprawling Bucks County, Pennsylvania, farm will likely take the stand in his own defense, lawyers said in court Wednesday.

No one was hurt when a lightning bolt blasted a crater into a Fort Worth parking lot Wednesday morning, authorities say.

Gabriel Duvalesse squatted slightly as he prepared to push 50 gallons (190 liters) of cooking oil in an old wheelbarrow to an outdoors market an hour away so he could earn $1. It was his first job in seven days as deadly protests paralyze Haiti’s economy and shutter businesses and schools. Opposition leaders and thousands of supporters are demanding the...

Authorities say a store clerk at a New Jersey gas station pointed a gun at a suspected shoplifter and forced him to strip naked.

Police in New Jersey are searching for a 29-year-old woman wanted in connection to a string of armed robberies.

Body-camera footage released Wednesday by Connecticut police show New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman getting stopped by cops at gunpoint in an apparent mix-up involving his own stolen vehicle and a separate report of an armed man at a doctor’s office.

Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman was stopped by police in Connecticut and officers swarmed his vehicle — some with guns drawn — in a mix-up involving his own stolen vehicle and separate report of an armed man, police said.  Cashman was driving his white Jeep and had stopped at  Shell gas station in Darien when he was surrounded by...

Family and friends held a vigil Thursday night for one of the four people killed in a violent two-city crime spree in Orange County.

A suspect is in custody after killing at least four people and injuring two others apparently targeted at random in a deadly stabbing and robbery spree across two cities in Orange County, California, Wednesday, authorities said. The 33-year-old man from Garden Grove started the rampage just after 4 p.m. and robbed more than half a dozen businesses during a two-hour...

The U.S. has recorded nearly 20 mass killings so far this year, the majority of them domestic violence attacks that receive scant national attention compared to high-profile public shootings in recent years at schools, churches and concerts. A database compiled by The Associated Press, Northeastern University and USA Today shows that the number of mass killings has held steady in...

A man accused of fatally shooting his father, brother and two other people in a crime rampage across Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley was captured Thursday afternoon after more than 13 hours on the run.