Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, one of the state's most influential Democrats, was charged Thursday in connection with an alleged role leading a criminal enterprise that acquired and distributed large quantities of marijuana and laundered the proceeds, according to federal authorities.
Braden Peters is charged with giving the girl alcohol until she was drunk and then sexually assaulting her when she visited him in Chatham, Massachusetts....
Faith Hedgepeth was a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when she was fatally beaten in her off-campus apartment in 2012....
Long Beach Peninsula residents are demanding long-term coastal protection as an $11.4 million sand dredging project races to safeguard damaged homes ahead of upcoming King Tides....
Authorities disrupted an alleged mass shooting plot at Corona High School, arresting two 15-year-old female students after digital communications were flagged by Meta and the FBI....