A home explosion in Defiance, Missouri, killed two children Friday. Two adults also present at the scene survived, one with a minor injury.

A 65-year-old Traverse City, Michigan, resident was pulled from a frozen lake after a state police officer successfully used the man’s dog to run rescue equipment to him.

19-year-old Preston Walls has been sentenced to 65 years in prison for killing two students at a Des Moines alternative school last January.

Oil production in North Dakota has taken a recent hit following an onslaught of unusually cold temperatures in the region, which have triggered numerous spills and slowed output.

Six alleged gang members have been convicted of various charges stemming from the 2020 fatal shooting of Chicago-based rapper FBG Duck.

Lamar Johnson is seeking unspecified damages in a lawsuit against the city of St. Louis and eight police officers, accusing them of wrongdoing in his erroneous homicide conviction.

Thomas Rhodes, 64, is suing a former Twin Cities-area coroner and several others over his wrongful homicide conviction for his wife’s 1996 death on Green Lake.

A $950 million upgrade to Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska, will include larger boarding and baggage claim areas, new dining and shopping venues and a glass-domed entrance.

Mario Waters, a 35-year-old inmate convicted of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor, has reportedly been killed in federal prison.

A Tokyo-bound All Nippon airliner clipped a Delta plane while taxiing at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Sunday evening, according to the FAA.

Toledo, Ohio police fatally shot 33-year-old Albert Alderman on Sunday afternoon. Alderman was suspected of strangling his live-in girlfriend, Kelsie Barnier, to death.

William Chrestman of Olathe, Kansas, has been sentenced to four years and seven months in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

Louis Wright, 65, will receive $1.75 million from the state of Michigan after serving 35 years in prison on a wrongful sexual assault conviction.

A Detroit police officer was found shot late Thursday, alongside two suspects, after the former responded to reports of gunfire inside a home.

Mourners gathered by the hundreds Thursday for the funeral of Ahmir “Smiley” Jolliff, an 11-year-old boy who was the sole victim of the Perry, Iowa, high school shooting.

Deshawn Lucas, 33, of Chicago, has been charged with attempted murder after reportedly shooting and injuring a police officer responding to a burglary at a high-end store.

An annual report shows millions of dollars worth of tech devices provided to students at Chicago Public Schools were reported lost or stolen.

Two boys, ages 8 and 6, who were hospitalized after falling through ice into a Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, retention pond, have been reported dead.