This photo provided by the Lower Southampton Police Department shows Lee Kaplan. (Lower Southampton Police Department via AP) FEASTERVILLE, Pa. – Authorities have been searching the home of a Pe sylvania man accused of sexually assaulting a teenager whose parents police say gave her to him when she ...

Firefighters battling the blaze on Monday. (KCBS-TV/KCAL-TV via AP) The suspect charged with murder in co ection with a vacant building fire in Los Angeles was in the United States illegally and had a string of arrests to his name -- but the feds never deported him, officials said Friday. Homeless m...

Funerals for two of the 49 victims of last weekend’s massacre at an Orlando nightclub were marred by overwhelming tension Saturday, as one service took place under protest from anti-gay demonstrators and another saw a driver run over two police officers. Reuters reported that a handful of Westboro B...

President Obama on Saturday broke from his family vacation in Yosemite National Park to urge Americans to act on climate change, which he argued is destroying the country’s precious natural resources. “Make no mistake, climate change is no longer a threat, it’s a reality,” the president said in a ro...

(AP) ATLANTA – A woman and her atto eys have been charged with secretly videotaping her having sex with a former CEO of Waffle House, and using the recording to try to extort millions of dollars from him. Fulton County District Atto ey spokesman Dontaye Carter in Atlanta said in a news release that ...

President Obama on Saturday renewed his call to ban so-called assault weapons, in the aftermath of the Florida nightclub shooting and other recent terror attacks on U.S. soil. “Being tough on terrorism -- particularly the sorts of homegrown terrorism that we’ve seen now in Orlando and San Be ardino ...

Trump supporter Nestor Moto, Jr. The Orlando terror massacre has members of the LGBT community around the nation coming out – for Donald Trump and the Second Amendment. Some among the reliable Democratic constituency were not persuaded by President Obama’s post-attack call for new gun control measur...

Authorities in Colorado said a mother fought off a mountain lion that attacked her 5-year-old son Friday night. The Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office told The Denver Cha el that the boy had been playing outside around 8 p.m. when the mountain lion attacked. The sheriff’s office said the boy’s mother ra...

(AP) ATLANTA – A woman and her atto eys have been charged with secretly videotaping her having sex with a former CEO of Waffle House, and using the recording to try to extort millions of dollars from him. Fulton County District Atto ey spokesman Dontaye Carter in Atlanta said in a news release that ...

Corey Clagett, seen here hugging his mother before leaving to begin his prison sentence in 2007, was recently released and is petitioning for a pardon so he can re-enlist. (Sheryl Levine Guterman ) Corey Clagett was a 21-year-old U.S. Army private in the 101st Airbo e Division on a mission deep insi...

Authorities in Colorado said a mother fought off a mountain lion that attacked her 5-year-old son Friday night. The Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office told The Denver Cha el that the boy had been playing outside around 8 p.m. when the mountain lion attacked. The sheriff’s office said the boy’s mother ra...

Trump supporter Nestor Moto, Jr. The Orlando terror massacre has members of the LGBT community around the nation coming out – for Donald Trump and the Second Amendment. Some among the reliable Democratic constituency were not persuaded by President Obama’s post-attack call for new gun control measur...

President Obama on Saturday renewed his call to ban so-called assault weapons, in the aftermath of the Florida nightclub shooting and other recent terror attacks on U.S. soil. “Being tough on terrorism -- particularly the sorts of homegrown terrorism that we’ve seen now in Orlando and San Be ardino ...

Omar Mateen, the Orlando nightclub attacker, grew up in a home frought with violence, with his mother accused of beating her husband during their many fights, according to reports published Saturday shedding new light on what may have helped spark the massacre. Police had arrested Mateen's mother, S...

President Obama on Saturday renewed his call to ban so-called assault weapons, in the aftermath of the Florida nightclub shooting and other recent terror attacks on U.S. soil. “Being tough on terrorism -- particularly the sorts of homegrown terrorism that we’ve seen now in Orlando and San Be ardino ...

Authorities in Colorado said a mother fought off a mountain lion that attacked her 5-year-old son Friday night. The Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office told The Denver Cha el that the boy had been playing outside around 8 p.m. when the mountain lion attacked. The sheriff’s office said the boy’s mother ra...

A former Guantanamo Bay prison living in Uruguay has vanished under mysterious circumstances, The Washington Post reports. Law enforcement is now searching for the former detainee, Jihad Ahmed Mustafa Dhiab, a Syrian national, the paper reported Friday, citing a U.S. official. “We are coordinating w...

Omar Mateen, the Orlando nightclub attacker, grew up in a home frought with violence, with his mother accused of beating her husband during their many fights, according to reports published Saturday shedding new light on what may have helped spark the massacre. Police had arrested Mateen's mother, S...

General view of buildings at the Olympic Village in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP) The acting gove or of Rio de Janeiro’s state gove ment declared a state of financial disaster Friday in an effort to change budgetary priorities without disrespecting Brazil’s fiscal laws. Francisco Do elles’ move will ...

This photo provided by the Lower Southampton Police Department shows Lee Kaplan. Officials acting on a tip Thursday, June 16, 2016, found the 51-year-old Kaplan at his Feasterville, Pa., home, along with 12 girls ranging in age from six months to 18 years. (Lower Southampton Police Department via AP...