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A Colorado sheriff's office said a town councilman shot a teenager in the face Tuesday and then said “my gun went off!”

Investigators discovered a loose cable that could have caused electrical issues on the massive cargo ship that lost power and crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March

A study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles and one that looks at the swimming abilities of dead fish were among the winners of this year’s Ig Nobels, the prize for comical scientific achievement

A school district in northeast Florida must put back in libraries three dozen books as part of a settlement with students and parents

A pharmacist who survived a 2021 mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket says she heard him say, “This is fun” at least three times during the shooting

New York City lawmakers have approved legislation to study the city’s significant role in slavery and consider reparations to descendants of enslaved people

The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference against Donald Trump and others has tossed out three counts in the indictment saying that they lie beyond the state’s jurisdiction

A federal report says U.S. Border Patrol agents who rushed to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in May 2022, were insufficiently trained and failed to establish command at the scene, but they violated no rules

A police lieutenant has testified that three former officers charged in the beating death of Tyre Nichols did not comply with Memphis Police Department training policies when they punched, kicked and hit the 29-year-old motorist with a baton after a traffic stop

The trial of a man charged in the fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students will be held in Boise, roughly 300 miles (482.80 kilometers) from where the crimes occurred