Authorities in the Texas Panhandle are searching for a man they said wounded a small town's police chief. The Texas Department of Public Safety sent out a “Blue Alert” at ...

Supreme Court steps into a fight over plans to store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico.

Two progressive district attorneys up for reelection in Georgia are under attack for low conviction rates and allegations of poor management. Republicans last year created a commission to discipline p ...

Two dairy workers in California were infected with bird flu, the 15th and 16th human cases detected in the U.S. this year. The new cases confirmed Thursday were found in ...

U.S. ports from Maine to Texas have been closed due to a strike by the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers. The International Longshoremen’s Association is demanding higher wages and a ...