LOS ANGELES -- Kathleen Durst's former medical school mentor testified Wednesday that during a conversation in 1981 she told him she lived in fear of her husband, New York real estate tycoon Robert Durst, who she said had a "homicidal side."

Kathleen vanished in 1982 and her body has never been recovered. No one has been charged in connection ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Jerry Brown formally mobilized 400 California National Guard members on Wednesday for transnational crime-fighting duties, thus preventing any effort by President Donald Trump to have the troops focus on immigration enforcement on the Mexican border.

The governor announced that federal officials have agreed to fund ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Anna Montie, a passenger aboard Southwest Flight 1380, was watching an episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" on her laptop when she heard a loud thud.

The plane rocked like it had hit a giant pothole in the sky.

A man behind her screamed.

The takeoff Tuesday had been uneventful, the Boeing jet flying out of New York ...Read more

ST. LOUIS -- Lawyers for Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens claimed in a court filing Wednesday that a former FBI agent involved in the investigation of the governor's 2015 affair is himself being investigated for perjury.

The two-page filing offers no support for the assertion. It says simply that "As the Court knows, there is now a criminal ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea -- Donald Trump wants to go it alone with Kim Jong Un, according to a South Korean newspaper report.

The U.S. president hopes to speak with the North Korean leader at their upcoming summit with only interpreters present, the Chosun Ilbo reported Thursday, citing multiple unidentified South Korean diplomatic sources.

The ...Read more

AUSTIN, Texas -- As of April 12, 762 Texas National Guard troops were deployed to the border, state officials announced at a legislative hearing on Wednesday.

Speaking to the Texas House Committee on Appropriations, Angela Isaack, manager the Legislative Budget Board, said the deployment had come as a consequence of President Donald Trump's ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- To his neighbors in the Elmwood section of Southwest Philadelphia, and to his fraternity brothers nationwide, Rashon Nelson is a good guy.

Nelson, 23, was one of two men seen on video being arrested last week at a Rittenhouse Square Starbucks for sitting in the store without making a purchase -- a video that went viral and ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA--A commercial airplane's engine failure over Pennsylvania on Tuesday bears similarities to problems on another plane less than two years ago, but federal investigators declined to say there was cause to worry about a class of engine shared by both aircraft and used by hundreds of airlines around the world.

"We are very concerned ...Read more

A Democratic U.S. House member introduced legislation that would give the federal government the power to recall defective firearms -- a bill that may face long odds in Congress.

The legislation by Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan would allow the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue safety warnings or order recalls of defective guns. No ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota fugitive Lois Riess used a dead woman's ID to make a $5,000 bank withdrawal and used her credit cards to pay for a hotel room in Ocala, Fla., authorities said Wednesday.

The Lee County Sheriff's Office released new surveillance videos Wednesday that show the Blooming Prairie, Minn., woman arriving at a Hilton Hotel in ...Read more

CHICAGO -- A man who tried to hang himself in a Chicago police lockup, prompting his family to accuse officers of wrongfully detaining him, died Wednesday morning, according to his longtime girlfriend.

Tyler Lumar, 24, died at the Landmark of Des Plaines Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in the northwest suburb, where he had been treated after ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Attorneys for Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens have asked a Cole County judge to put the brakes on Attorney General Josh Hawley's investigation of Greitens' former charity, The Mission Continues.

In a court filing made Monday, Greitens' attorneys said Circuit Judge Jon E. Beetem should issue a restraining order and appoint a ...Read more