Delaware authorities say an 8-year-old girl received life-threatening injuries when she was mauled by her family's pit bull. The dog was shot and killed by a Newark, Delaware, police officer following the attack inside a home on Saturday afternoon.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – A federal judge has ruled that police officers and a physician who medically paralyzed a man to conduct a cavity search for drugs in Tennessee are not immune from prosecution. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/YsTsN

CANADENSIS, Pa. (AP) — Authorities hunting for a survivalist suspected of killing a state trooper at a police barracks remained in the thick woods near his parents' house Saturday to further narrow down the search area more than two weeks after the am

Reanne Pederson, 32, faces negligent homicide charges in North Dakota court after allegedly getting high June 13 and then breastfeedding her 4-day-old son Avery, who later died. The North Dakota mother accused of killing her 4-day-old child by snorting