Police say New Orleans Saints receiver Michael Thomas is facing simple battery and criminal mischief charges following a confrontation with a construction worker

Rex Heuermann, 59, is accused of killing three women - Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello whose bodies were found near Gilgo Beach

Police shocked a 95-year-old woman with a stun gun as she approached them with a walking frame and a steak knife in an Australian nursing home, sending her to the hospital

Police described the suspect as a five-foot-10 male with short red hair who was wearing a gray T-shirt and a black backpack at the time of the crime

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and environmental groups are clashing over some climate policies

HONG KONG (AP) — Joe Wong sweats through his days as a cleaner in a Hong Kong housing complex, laboring in narrow, stuffy corridors that this summer and last were the worst he’s known. He finds what relief he can in a resting area where a fan offers a breeze and a refrigerator holds the cool water he drinks — 7 1/2 liters a day — to ward off heatstroke.

The wife of the man who was piloting the submersible when it imploded during this week’s dive to the the Titanic wreckage site is a descendant of a couple who died when the ocean liner sank in 1912

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON They are the most common type of planet observed in our Milky Way galaxy

The entire planet sweltered to the unofficial hottest day in human recordkeeping July 3, according to University of Maine scientists at the Climate Reanalyzer project

Poland’s new parliament has begun debating the reinstatement of government funding for in vitro fertilization

Eva Liu was at the Neuschwanstein Castle in Schwangau on June 14, when a 30-year-old man tried to sexually assault her and pushed her into the gorge

Former state legislator Lashrecse Aird has defeated incumbent Democratic Sen. Joe Morrissey in a closely watched primary election nomination contest in Virginia that centered on abortion rights