A former deep-sea treasure hunter who spent more than a decade in prison after refusing to disclose the whereabouts of missing gold coins is now free. Federal records show Ohio-born ...

An attorney for a California solar power company has been sentenced to 11 years and five months in prison for helping orchestrate a $1 billion fraud ...

Scott Colom wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Mississippi primary election.

Alabama governor commutes sentence of a 75-year-old death row inmate who was not in the building when victim was killed.

Police in Baltimore say an officer and a suspect have been shot in an “active shooter incident.” Police say the officer was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma ...

A massive fire broke out Tuesday morning on a barge carrying huge piles of scrap metal on the Delaware Bay. The barge appeared to be standing still as boats on both sides of it fired water cannons ...

Shawn Harris and Clayton Fuller advance to special runoff election for US House in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District.

Voting technology firm Smartmatic is seeking to dismiss a criminal indictment for money laundering, blaming President Donald Trump and his allies for seeking its prosecution as part ...

Awards season has a way of diminishing the movie year into a handful of films that are talked about ad nauseam for months. But as good as some of this ...

The latest lava fountaining episode of an erupting Hawaii volcano reached 1,000 feet (300 meters) high Tuesday, prompting temporary closures at a national park and part of ...

Lynette Howell Taylor has seen the Oscars from a few different vantage points: As a nominee, in 2019 for “A Star is Born,” as a producer of the broadcast in ...

The first case challenging Missouri’s gerrymandered redistricting plan to reach the state Supreme Court questions whether lawmakers had the power to enact the plan at all. The court’s seven judges ...