Karen Brooks

(Reuters) - A 13-year-old New Orleans boy has been arrested on charges he murdered his 5-year-old sister with body slams, elbow punches and other moves he told investigators he had...

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The federal government's disaster agency rejected a request for aid to replace infrastructure destroyed near West, Texas, by an April fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14...

AUSTIN, Texas/TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Texas and Florida each executed a killer by injection on Wednesday, including one who murdered an East Texas man at the end of a six-month...

FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - A military judge on Wednesday delayed a court hearing in which the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood is expected to...

FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - A U.S. military court judge on Wednesday ordered a physical exam for accused Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Hasan before she decides whether Hasan will...

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas lawmakers passed sweeping changes to the state's $116 billion teacher pension system on Sunday, including the first cost-of-living increase in a dozen years and a...

(Reuters) - Investigators have removed from its Watertown, Massachusetts, backyard the now-famous boat used as a hiding spot by one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, and have taken it...

WACO, Texas (Reuters) - Clive Doyle is still a staunch Branch Davidian loyal to the teachings of David Koresh, whose tiny church outside Waco, Texas, was destroyed in a deadly...