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The man accused of helping his son hide the body of missing California college student Kristin Smart has been released from jail, according to county records Thursday.

Local prosecutors in Colorado on Wednesday filed over 40 more felony charges against a man charged with killing 10 people at a Boulder supermarket last month, including for allegedly using a large capacity magazine banned by state lawmakers in response to recent mass shootings.

Burning Man festival organizers have said that they are considering requiring attendees to prove they have been vaccinated for COVID-19 if the organizers move forward with plans to hold this year’s counter-culture festival in the Nevada desert.

Three years after a malfunctioning storage tank destroyed thousands of frozen eggs and embryos at an Ohio fertility clinic, its former lab director is blaming what he described as bungling staff and administrators who ignored his warnings.

Just days after guilty verdicts were handed down for the former Minneapolis police officer whose killing of George Floyd set off nationwide protests and a reckoning over racism, the family of another Black man killed by police, this time in a nearby suburb, is preparing for his Thursday funeral.

Law enforcement officials are taking a closer look at the body cam footage released by Columbus Police, which shows the moment CDP Officer Nicholas Reardon shot and killed 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant.

A St. Louis husband and wife facing criminal charges for waving guns at racial injustice protesters last summer have told a judge they are concerned about Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s handling of their case and asked that it be sent back to the grand jury.

Transgender girls would be banned from playing on girls’ sports teams under a bill that advanced Wednesday in the Missouri House.

A Louisiana family is calling one neighbor their ‘guardian angel’ after a fire broke out their mother’s home.

Southwest Airlines is the first major U.S. airline to report a profit since the pandemic started, as federal payroll aid helped boost the company to net income of $116 million in the first quarter.

Members of The Longhorn Band will be required to perform “The Eyes of Texas” alma mater and fight song at future University of Texas sporting events.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, the junior Republican senator from Texas, joined his senior counterpart on Wednesday in urging the Biden administration to finish construction of a border levee system in deep South Texas where there are breaches caused by unfinished border wall construction that local officials fear could cause havoc if not fixed before the start of the upcoming hurricane season. Cruz sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Wednesday, two days after Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, also sent a letter to the Biden administration urging action. The Hidalgo County Judge last week told Border Report the federal government just “walked away” from the projects and have left them vulnerable.

Courtney Wilson and Shenita Jones invited family and friends to their “dream home and estate” for their weekend wedding celebration, but the couple didn’t own the 16,300-square-foot mansion and didn’t have permission to use it.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed a bill that legalizes the simple possession of marijuana, making the state the first in the U.S. south to allow the drug’s recreational use, the governor said.

Tampa Bay supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement have strong criticism for Florida’s anti-riot law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis this week.

A judge sentenced a Bangladeshi immigrant whose pipe bomb mostly misfired in a busy New York City subway station in 2017 to life in prison on Thursday, calling the crime “barbaric and heinous.”

Lawyers helping the New York Assembly investigate whether Gov. Andrew should be impeached have received more than 200 tips and spoken with attorneys for about 70 people and four government agencies, a lawmaker overseeing the probe said Wednesday.

The sensory station is designed to help calm kids with special needs or any child who’s anxious in a hospital.