LOS ANGELES--When administrators at South El Monte High School called Jeremy Sanchez's parents to say he never showed up for class Wednesday, his father began to worry.

It was unusual for the 17-year-old junior to miss school, so his father filed a missing person's report and assembled two people, Jeremy's close friend and another teen with ...Read more

LOS ANGELES--In a jail call recorded in 2015, Robert Durst told a friend he regretted giving interviews to the producers of "The Jinx," saying he realized while watching the six-part HBO documentary that he "definitely had a problem."

The New York real estate scion was arrested in connection with the slaying of his best friend Susan Berman on ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump praised James Comey for his honorable conduct during the 2016 campaign, sought out his loyalty and asked the FBI director to let go an investigation into his former national security adviser, according to memos Comey wrote to document private conversations.

These aspects of Comey's conversations with Trump ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA--Late last year, Southwest Airlines responded with a plea for more time to a proposed inspection protocol to identify flaws in fan blades like the one that caused one of its Boeing 737s to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia this week, documents show.

The proposal would be more sweeping than federal authorities anticipated, ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Four brothers who were home alone were found dead after an early morning fire destroyed a house Thursday in Lake Ozark, Mo.

The children were identified as 14-year-old Tyler Otto, 8-year-old Cason Otto, 5-year-old Max Otto and 4-year-old Levi Otto.

The School of the Osage posted on its Facebook page Thursday that it "is ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- A Pennsylvania man convicted of hiding his past as the murderous Liberian warlord "Jungle Jabbah" was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Thursday -- a historic punishment that prosecutors touted Thursday as one of the longest ever given to an accused war criminal convicted of immigration fraud in the United States.

At his ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Trying to find its way out of a legal thicket, the Trump administration wants to send to Saudi Arabia a U.S. citizen who was captured on the battlefield in Syria last fall and is suspected of supporting Islamic State.

Lawyers for the American, who is identified only as John Doe in court papers, claim that would violate his ...Read more

California officials say Pentagon has confirmed National Guard funding despite Trump threat

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The awkward dance between California Gov. Jerry Brown and the federal government over the National Guard jerked back toward discord on Thursday, when President Donald Trump said he would refuse to pay for a new deployment of troops ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA--The prosecution's expert said Andrea Constand could have felt weak and woozy, with blurred vision and a dry mouth, as quickly as 10 to 15 minutes after taking pills that Bill Cosby gave her.

But a different expert called by Cosby's defense team said she couldn't have felt those symptoms so quickly or severely from the Benadryl ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS--The Florida woman found shot dead in her rented condo in Fort Myers Beach had paid for her killer's drinks and dinner just hours before.

A manager at the Smokin' Oyster Brewery confirmed that Pamela Hutchinson paid the bill that she and Minnesota fugitive Lois Riess ran up during their two-hour visit on the late afternoon of April ...Read more

A series of controversial tweets a California State, Fresno English professor posted Tuesday evening mocking the death of former first lady Barbara Bush has sparked intense backlash online as well as a university inquiry.

Randa Jarrar, an author and associate professor who teaches creative writing at the school, stirred outrage with tweets she ...Read more

TEHRAN, Iran -- A video showing female members of Iran's so-called "morality police" beating a woman, allegedly for being inappropriately dressed, has prompted outrage on social media and calls for an investigation.

The video, circulated widely on social media Thursday, showed a young woman with a headscarf that exposed some of her hair being ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Andrew McCabe, the FBI official who became a target for President Donald Trump, now faces the possibility of criminal charges -- the latest fallout from an internal watchdog report that found he lied to investigators.

The findings of that report, by the inspector general of the Justice Department, were referred to the U.S. ...Read more

HAVANA -- Cuban lawmakers on Thursday transferred power to new President Miguel Diaz-Canel, marking a major generational shift on the island nation ruled for almost 60 years by the late Fidel Castro and his brother, Raul.

Diaz-Canel, 57, a longtime stalwart of the ruling Communist Party, was heartily endorsed for the role by outgoing President ...Read more