MACOMB TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man serving life in prison for killing a 13-year-old girl is a suspected serial killer, police said Wednesday as they dug up part of a forest in a search for as many as seven other girls who have been m...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — For all of the sensational allegations in the invasion-of-privacy case against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens — an extramarital affair, bondage, blackmail — the verdict may come down to the technical workings of the iPhone, the defin...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Three members of the Bandidos motorcycle club were indicted on murder charges Wednesday stemming from a chaotic 2015 shooting that involved police and members of another biker club outside a restaurant in Waco, Texas. The i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's CIA nominee said Wednesday at her confirmation hearing that she doesn't believe torture works as an interrogation technique and that her "strong moral compass" would prevent her from carrying out any p...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — For more than a century, the Boy Scouts of America and the Mormon church formed an ideal pair as they helped each other expand their organizations and build their brands while molding countless young men through bow knots, p...

JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man convicted of murder after he was accused of breaking into a home and shooting a woman while livestreaming the attack on Facebook has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Twenty-year-old Anthony G...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Jurors are deliberating in the trial of the younger of two Oklahoma brothers accused of fatally stabbing their parents and three siblings. Deliberations began Wednesday in the trial of 19-year-old Michael Bever, who's charged w...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's Legislature is living up to its tough-on-crime reputation with the passage of a bill making it easier to send child offenders to prison with no chance for parole. While many states across the country are easing n...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A Texas school district is trying to recruit teachers with a billboard campaign in Oklahoma, where teacher protests about classroom funding recently closed schools across the state. The Fort Worth Independent School District i...

PERRY, Okla. (AP) — A family is accusing an Oklahoma school district of protecting a sexual predator and calling children liars when they said a former teacher's aide molested them. The Oklahoman reports that the lawsuit against Perry Public S...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Sedgwick County Commissioner Michael O'Donnell has pleaded not guilty to federal fraud and money laundering related to his handling of campaign funds. U.S. Magistrate Gwynne Birzer on Wednesday allowed O'Donnell to remain free o...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri health officials have refused to comply with a subpoena for information on a tick-borne virus that killed a state worker. The subpoena is the latest of several attempts by state legislators to force the Missouri D...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors filed first-degree murder charges Wednesday against the mother of a 2-year-old who died from suspected abuse and the woman's boyfriend, the latest case in the Wichita area involving young children who died after t...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The father of a missing 5-year-old Wichita boy is charged with misdemeanor battery in a case not related to his son's disappearance. District Attorney Marc Bennett said Wednesday that 34-year-old Jonathan Hernandez made his f...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State Fair officials are warning about websites selling fraudulent tickets for this year's fair. The Hutchinson News report s several customers learned after buying tickets that the websites they used weren't a...