By CHARLOTTE KRAMON and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — It was a prank that turned deadly, authorities said: A group of teenagers unspooled rolls of toilet paper outside the home of a beloved high school teacher who tripped in the street and was struck by a pickup ...

By ROBERT LEWIS/CalMatters CalMatters Placer County prosecutors wanted any information the California Department of Motor Vehicles had on Kostas Linardos, who drove a three-ton pickup truck at high speed into the back of a sedan in late 2022, killing a toddler. The district attorney's ...

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon on Monday signed ban on abortions after embryotic cardiac activity can be detected, generally at about six weeks' gestation and often before women know they're pregnant. The signing makes Wyoming the fifth state to bar abortions ...

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL and MICHAEL TACKETT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon's resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval Office and Cabinet Room and ...

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., (AP) — A former Missouri House speaker was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud for misusing federal COVID-19 relief funds for his personal benefit. Former Republican House Speaker John Diehl ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police took a woman into custody after she fired gunshots outside Rihanna 's gated home, according to authorities and news reports on Monday. No one was injured, police said. It wasn't immediately clear whether the singer was at home when the shooting happened ...