The U.S. Coast Guard was responding Thursday to an emergency alert from a sightseeing plane with six people on board in the area around southeast Alaska’s Misty Fjords National Monument, a spokesperson said.

Robert Durst will have to wait at least until Monday to take the stand in his own defense, as a surprise early ending to the court day brought another delay to a murder trial that has seen an endless string of them.

California will require all of its roughly 2.2 million health care and long-term care workers to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by Sept. 30.

Teens in previous generations couldn’t wait to get their licenses and hit the road. That’s not true quite as commonly today.

Three young Michigan men who were teens when they were part of a rock-throwing incident that killed a motorist on Interstate 75 were put on probation after spending more than three years in custody while their case was stuck in court.

An Indiana woman charged in her husband’s fatal shooting used an axe to cut off his legs before trying to enlist her two teenage children in a failed plan to burn his remains, authorities said.

“The younger adults, younger than 50, and pediatric ages [who have] much lower vaccine prevalence, those are the people we’re seeing get sick, and those are the people we’re seeing dying without the vaccine,” one official said.

Hospitals in Arkansas and Mississippi are ‘at a breaking point’ as COVID-19 patients fill up ICUs, leaving less than three dozen open beds in both states combined.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday announced that he made good on his promise to pardon a couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators as they marched past the couple’s home in a luxury St. Louis enclave last year.

Residents in the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie are on heightened alert after someone with a 6-foot-long venomous snake reported it missing.

SPRING, Texas (AP) — A Texas water park says a chemical exposure that sent dozens of people to hospitals was caused by “improper installation” of a water filtration system. Six Flags officials said Wednesday that a third-party service company improperly installed the system at Hurricane Harbor Splashtown, causing pool-sanitizing chemicals to be released in an outdoor kiddie […]

A federal judge put the brakes on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s order restricting the transport of migrants through the state.

A new chapter in the ongoing war of words between President Joe Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is fueling the rumors that DeSantis could end up being the Republican challenger in 2024.

Two men struck and killed by a LYNX Blue Line light rail train Tuesday morning in south Charlotte were conducting a memorial for their brother who was struck and killed in the same spot last week, police confirm.

Hospitals in Arkansas and Mississippi are ‘at a breaking point’ as COVID-19 patients fill up ICUs, leaving less than three dozen open beds in both states combined.

State lawmakers told Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday that their ongoing impeachment investigation is almost done and gave him a deadline of Aug. 13 to provide additional evidence.

NEW YORK (AP) — He said his actions had been misconstrued, his words misunderstood. He said it was cultural: He hugs, he kisses, he says “Ciao, bella.” He said it was generational: Sometimes he lapses into “honey” or “sweetheart” or tells bad jokes. But of all New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s responsesto investigative findings that […]

Sitting down for drinks and a meal in an airport can be a costly endeavor, but one traveler spotted an eye-popping beer price at New York’s LaGuardia Airport last month.