A small medical plane crashed in a mountain range outside Ruidoso, New Mexico, killing all four people aboard and sparking a wildfire in the surrounding forest

A man who experts said was intellectually disabled has become the 600th person executed in Texas since the state resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1982

An Oklahoma man who has narrowly avoided execution three separate times could walk free from a county jail after a judge agreed to grant him bond while awaiting retrial

State senators in Louisiana have passed a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the previous one

Former death row inmate Richard Glossip has been granted bond by an Oklahoma judge who ruled Thursday that Glossip could be freed from jail while awaiting a new trial for a 1997 killing

The Justice Department is accusing Yale University of illegally considering race in its medical school admissions

Voting rights groups are arguing that a federal judge should stop President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail voting because he doesn’t have the authority to do so

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to bring a Colombian woman back to the U.S. from Congo

Harvey Weinstein has returned to court in his rape retrial a day after he reported chest pains while in the courthouse