Some in Hawaii’s Micronesian community say the April 5 shooting of 16-year-old Iremamber Sykap highlights the racism they face in a place they expected to be more welcoming to fellow islanders

This year’s graduating class of college seniors is poised for better prospects than were the 2020 graduates, who had the misfortune to graduate in the depths of the disastrous coronavirus recession

Shelly Harmon was long suspected of killing her roommate in Arizona in 1988.

Shelly Harmon was long suspected of killing her roommate in central Arizona in 1988

Police say a Maryland man went on a rampage over the weekend, shooting or stabbing to death three of his neighbors and setting his home on fire before responding officers fatally shot him

A gunman opened fire at a birthday party in Colorado, slaying six adults before killing himself Sunday

Police: Seven adults dead including gunman after Colorado birthday party shooting.

Eula Hall, who opened a clinic almost 50 years ago in Appalachia and “never stopped” trying to help others, has died

Joyful reunions among vaccinated parents and children across the country marked this year’s Mother’s Day

He designed Chicago’s state government building and worked on FBI headquarters.

The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline jumped 6 cents over the past two weeks, to $3.02 per gallon

Fight between a group of young people led to shots being fired, police say.

She was one of three bystanders hit by bullets shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday.

A Denver officer has been shot in the leg and police are looking for the shooter

Florida may lift its three-decade ban on catching and killing goliath grouper

State's energy policy and planning agency wants to transition new homes.

Today in History Today is Sunday, May 9, the 129th day of 2021. There are 236 days left in the year. This is Mother’s Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 9, 1994, South Africa’s newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country’s first Black president. On this date: In 1712, the Carolina Colony was officially divided into two entities: North Carolina and South Carolina. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson, acting on a joint congressional resolution, signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. In 1926, Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett supposedly became the first men to fly over the North Pole. (However, U.S. scholars announced in 1996 that their examination of Byrd’s flight diary suggested he had turned back 150 miles short of his goal.) In 1945, with World War II in Europe at an end, Soviet forces liberated Czechoslovakia from Nazi occupation. U.S. officials announced that a midnight entertainment curfew was...

Investigation into the death of a Black man who was shot in his car by deputies.

It was not immediately clear what led to the violence in suburban Baltimore.

Authorities say a shooting at a South Florida shopping mall sent anxious shoppers and workers running and left three people injured

The April U.S. jobs report was an unexpected clunker

Cruz Reynoso, a son of migrant workers who worked in the fields as a child and went on to become the first Latino state Supreme Court justice in California history, has died

Officers had what police described as a “minor struggle” with the man.

The three men died after apparently igniting an explosive powder.

Police seek to arrest a man who reportedly left a restaurant without paying.