Martha Place seemed destined for obscurity, yet she is remembered to this day as the first woman in America to be zapped into the hereafter by an electric chair.

A man who spent three days refusing to come down from atop a PG&E power structure in Richmond was finally coaxed down on Friday afternoon, police said.

As Cortez McClendon was getting food out of a refrigerator, he felt the gunshots. He was hit with bullets five times, three ...

James Talbot, a former Catholic priest convicted of sexually assaulting boys in Maine and Massachusetts who was exposed by ...

Read, 45, is accused of fatally striking her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, 46, with her SUV and leaving him ...

() - A legislative committee has rejected a bipartisan bill to end a loophole in California’s mental health diversion program that allows mentally ill individuals charged with domestic ...