The mother of a drugged-up Long Island man who died after being shot by a Taser gun while fighting with police officers Saturday said cops didn't have to stun her boy.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 74-year-old man said to be the oldest graffiti vandal ever captured in Los Angeles County was arrested Friday, authorities said

CASPER, Wyo. -- A 32-year-old Casper man who police say killed an African gray parrot after the bird bit him has been charged with animal cruelty

Dollie Ann Henson has been seeking her family for more than half a century, ever since she was kidnapped by a neighbor as a child, she said. Now, she's finally found them.

Detectives hunting one of the most prolific sex offenders in British criminal history say they have made a "significant" arrest almost two decades after the serial rapist first struck

Even in Texas they are having their doubts. The state that executes more people than any other by far - it will account for half the prisoners sent to the death chamber in the US this year - is seeing its once rock-solid faith in capital punishm

FARMINGTON - In a traditional ceremony by American Indians, the sacred white buffalo named Kenahkihinen was welcomed to his new home at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort & Spa Saturday

Michael Kabotie, a Hopi artist and jeweler who was an innovator in the Native American fine arts movement, died Oct. 23 at a Flagstaff, Ariz., hospital from complications related to the H1N1 influenza, Phoenix's Heard Museum announced. He was 67.

BOULDER, Colo. - Climate change may be only the latest of many challenges facing Indian country, but it is having devastating effects in parts of the far North where at least one Native village faced with inundation by melting polar ice is suing...

More than 1,000 freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction, reflecting the strain on global water resources, an updated global "Red List" of endangered species showed Tuesday.