Police are searching for a young mother of two who vanished after leaving for a doctor’s appointment last week. Authorities said Alecia Newsome, 22, was last seen at her home in Haralson County, Georgia, Wednesday when she was heading to…

The mother of a 10-year-old boy who suffered serious injuries after falling from a zip line in September has filed a lawsuit. Kimberly Barnes, of Lakeland, Florida, is suing Urban Air Adventure Park, also in Lakeland. The suit filed on…

Firefighters in Southern California made “good progress” overnight as they fought the Maria Fire that erupted two days ago and spread quickly, officials said Saturday. The fire was 20% contained as of Saturday morning, a positive development from its 0%…

An armored truck security guard was fatally shot in the face by “brazen” robbers who attacked him in broad daylight outside a Houston fast-food restaurant, authorities said. Francis Hazzard, a Loomis Cash Handling Company security guard, was caught on video…

The family of Harry Dunn, a British teenager who was killed when the wife of an American diplomat crashed into his motorcycle in August , said they learned about the woman’s written apology through media reports on Monday and claimed…

“Not qualified to make a fair and impartial decision,” is how Florida State Senator Bobby Powell described the judge who sentenced a 21-year-old man to 10 days in jail for missing jury duty. “The thought that a judge would sentence…

A “credible” threat over the new psychological thriller “Joker” forced a California movie theater to close down temporarily, police said. Authorities were called to the Century Huntington Beach and XD theater on Thursday about a possible threat in response to…

By the time Heather Robinson was a teenager, she had long known that she had been adopted as an infant, and grew up knowing only her loving family in Illinois. But in 2000, the then-15-year-old’s world was shattered when she…