Mark Cady, the soft-spoken chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court who wrote several decisions that rankled conservatives, has died unexpectedly at age 66

Chicago teachers have voted in favor of the contract deal that ended an 11-day strike

The office of Serbia’s president says he has been hospitalized with cardiovascular problems

The death of a 16-year-old boy who killed two students and wounded three others at his Southern California high school has left investigators struggling to discover what prompted the deadly attack

PHOTO GALLERY: People protesting the departure of President Evo Morales in Bolivia; flooding in Venice; and a foggy landscape near Frankfurt, Germany.

Members of the United Auto Workers union at Ford Motor Co. have voted to approve a new 4-year contract with company

Kanye West has followed the Johnny Cash route and performed for inmates at a Houston jail

Police say 16-year-old boy who shot five students at his Los Angeles-area high school has died

Authorities in the San Francisco Bay Area are calling a shooting that left five dead during a Halloween party at an Airbnb rental a “bloodbath”

Former Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn is telling Nevada regulators they can’t revoke his gambling license over allegations of workplace sexual harassment because he’s no longer affiliated with the company that carries his name

Lynette Howell Taylor and Stephanie Allain picked to produce the 92nd Academy Awards

A Florida man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the hate-crime beating death of Guatemalan man

The governor says the Louisiana fishing industry has been hit with $258 million in losses due to historic flooding this year

The president of a private Minnesota College is asking his board of trustees to remove the school founder’s name from a campus building over concerns about his racist and sexist views he promoted in the 1800s

A judge has ruled the teenager accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school mentally incompetent to stand trial

The Georgia ethics commission has filed a lawsuit seeking communications between Democrat Stacey Abrams’ unsuccessful 2018 campaign for governor and several third-party organizations

Boeing is settling a few more of the lawsuits filed by families of passengers who died in two crashes involving the company’s 737 Max jet

Authorities in Kentucky say they’ve arrested a man who raped a woman in 1978 and who may be responsible for other crimes

Texas highest criminal appeals court has stopped the execution of inmate Rodney Reed, whose conviction is being questioned by new evidence in his case

The head of Little Rock’s teachers union says another strike or other action to protest Arkansas’ takeover of the school district and their loss of collective bargaining rights is possible

Texas appeals court blocks execution of Rodney Reed amid new questions about evidence in murder case

The last remaining survivor of Hindenburg disaster has died

Authorities have identified a second person among three people who died in a mobile home fire in central Indiana

It’s likelier that an anti-robocall bill will get sent to President Donald Trump this year

A Minnesota man who shot and wounded a school bus driver during an altercation on a Minneapolis freeway during a snowstorm has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison

A West Virginia library says it has canceled an event where drag queens would read to children due to violent threats against the performers

Prince Andrew is again pushing back on claims he had sex with a woman who says Jeffrey Epstein trafficked her to several prominent men when she was a teenager

The plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s congressional district map will fight a replacement map approved by the Republican-controlled General Assembly

A prosecutor says he won’t pursue charges against officers who shot and killed a man in Alabama

Federal prosecutors say a suspected neo-Nazi has been charged with a gun crime following an investigation by the FBI

Police say two officers involved in a fatal shooting in North Carolina’s biggest city were working off-duty in uniform when they responded to a fight in an area known for its bars

3 convicted of manslaughter in 2015 East Village building explosion that killed 2 men

Wildlife officials say an endangered squirrel subspecies in southeastern Arizona is fighting its way back after much of its mountain habitat was burned by a 2017 wildfire

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says he has “absolutely zero regrets” over the decision to move two research agencies' headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Kansas City

U.S. regulators have approved a new sickle cell disease medicine that can prevent extremely painful, dangerous flareups in which misshaped blood cells clump together, blocking blood and oxygen flow

The University of South Carolina is investigating members of a fraternity who a television reporter says made sexist and offensive remarks to her while she was working

California is broadening its effort to block the Trump administration from ending its authority to set greenhouse gas emission and fuel economy standards for cars and trucks.

The head of a giant private prison company is preparing for the “worst case scenario” should a Democratic presidential candidate win the 2020 election and attempt to abolish private involvement in the prison sector

New North Carolina congressional map that endangers reelection prospects for 2 Republicans approved by legislature

U.S. crash investigators say a rented helicopter that crashed near Las Vegas, killing two men, was found to have sediment in its fuel tanks just hours before the flight

A jail inmate says a Colorado rancher charged with beating his fiancee to death asked him multiple times to kill the key witness in the case

An Oklahoma judge who last summer ordered consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million to help address the state’s opioid crisis is reducing that amount by $107 million in his final order in the case

A federal court filing says the mother of a missing U.S. Marine told investigators that she saw her son kill her boyfriend

Oklahoma judge reduces amount Johnson & Johnson must pay state to help clean up opioid crisis by $107M to $465M

The U.S. Border Patrol says an agent shot and wounded a Russian man suspected of crossing the border illegally in Arizona

Texas parole board says inmate Rodney Reed’s execution should be delayed; governor to make decision

Florida's Republican governor has filed an appeal in a bid to lift a federal judge's order allowing some felons to regain voting rights despite failing to settle unpaid fines and other legal debts

A federal appeals court in Cincinnati has denied ex-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s latest effort to get out of prison

A former space shuttle commander is set for trial next month in Alabama on reckless murder charges in a wreck that killed two girls

Police: Woman arrested after police found her taking a nighttime walk in freezing temperatures with her unclothed baby, a 16-month-old infant covered only by diaper and small blanket