DANVILLE, Calif. -- San Ramon Valley Unified School District officials are being blamed for doing next to nothing when a 16-year-old student was filmed with her pants down in the girls bathroom, and the cellphone video was posted on Instagram.

The perpetrator, who is a 17-year-old girl and star athlete at San Ramon Valley High School, confessed...Read more

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources is investigating a reported incident of alligator abuse in Beaufort County, state officials confirmed Friday.

Beaufort County officers from DNR's Law Enforcement Division are investigating reports that a group of teenagers abused a baby alligator and poured beer down...Read more

TAORMINA, Italy -- By the time President Donald Trump sat down with the leaders of the world's other industrialized powers at a former monastery here Friday, he already had met and spent time with each individually. The mood around the circular table was one of a "family dinner," the White House said, with discussions ranging from terrorism and ...Read more

Texans: Ready to hunt hogs from hot air balloons?

AUSTIN, Texas -- Hot air balloons aren't just tourist attractions any more.

Soon, they may be the newest way to reduce the feral hog and coyote population in Texas.

A bill to let Texans hunt feral hogs and coyotes from hot air balloons ricocheted through the House and Senate and now heads to ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt of St. Louis has stopped lobbying for the government of Turkey, according to a filing with the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

That news comes amid growing calls for action against Turkish security officers who were shown on video attacking protesters in front of that country's ambassador's ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. -- In a continuing power struggle with Republican lawmakers at the helm of the General Assembly, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday filed another lawsuit in state court, accusing the legislative leaders of trying to strip him of power to appoint state Court of Appeals judges and N.C. Industrial Commission members.

The ...Read more

Three married U.S. Marine officers have found themselves under investigation for a night in February that went off the rails in Bogota, Colombia, involving allegations they went drinking with some local women, were slipped illicit drugs, robbed of U.S. property and landed in a local hospital emergency room.

The men may have fallen prey to what ...Read more

LONDON -- Home Secretary Amber Rudd on Friday urged Britons to enjoy a busy three-day national holiday, as police made further arrests in their investigation into the deadly bombing of Manchester Arena earlier this week.

"Over this weekend normal events will take place," Rudd said after chairing a meeting of the government's emergency committee...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Sometime soon the abruptly fired man who first announced that the FBI was investigating whether Donald Trump's campaign cooperated in Russian interference in the 2016 election will meet with the man who now runs that investigation.

They won't need much in the way of introductions.

Former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired by...Read more

WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence agencies conducted illegal surveillance on American citizens over a five-year period, a practice that earned them a sharp rebuke from a secret court that called the matter a "very serious" constitutional issue.

The criticism is in a lengthy secret ruling that lays bare some of the frictions between the Foreign ...Read more

It's no surprise that a change in our planet's climate would affect our coastlines, our weather patterns and our food supply. But here's something you may not have considered before: Global warming might also affect how well we sleep at night.

In a paper published Friday in Science Advances, researchers show that when local temperatures get ...Read more

CAIRO -- A bus carrying Coptic Christians to a monastery south of Cairo was targeted in a bloody attack by gunmen Friday, killing 28 people, officials said.

Egyptian state television reported that 25 others were wounded in the attack in Minya, a Christian enclave about 140 miles south of the capital.

Human rights groups were reporting an even ...Read more

Republicans were celebrating Friday, and relieved, and it was easy to see why: The party hung on to Montana's sole congressional seat even though its candidate faced a freshly lodged criminal charge for physically assaulting a reporter on election eve.

Although they fell short in yet another special election -- Greg Gianforte won handily, 50 ...Read more

AMMAN, Jordan -- Warplanes of the U.S.-led coalition pounded an eastern Syrian city Thursday and Friday, killing more than 100 family members of Islamic State jihadists, activists and a monitoring group said. The U.N. condemned the escalating airstrike campaign on the northeastern provinces of the country.

Two coalition airstrikes -- on ...Read more

Hillary Clinton delivered a subtle dig at President Donald Trump on Friday, offering some parallels between his presidency and that of former President Richard Nixon.

While delivering a commencement address at her alma mater, Wellesley College, a private women's liberal arts school in Massachusetts, Clinton, without naming Trump, recalled how ...Read more