Author: Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY

Most teachers think schools would be less safe if they were armed, a poll found. Teachers also didn’t think shootings were the biggest safety threat.

The suit accuses Officer Greg Capers of failing to assess the situation to respond appropriately before firing his weapon.

Harris is the first woman and person of color to serve as the vice president of the U.S. About one-quarter of the West Point student body are women.

A letter that said “burn after reading” written by the mother of Brian Laundrie, who killed Gabby Petito, was ordered released to Petito’s parents.

A Georgia man recently released from prison for robbing a bank a decade ago tried to rob the bank again, then turned himself in, officials said.

A group of robbers stole hundreds of thousands of dollars of cell phones and other electronics from AT&T stores in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

An officer responding to a hoax active shooter call at a Massachusetts prep school inadvertently made the situation worse by accidentally firing a gun.

A Mississippi high school can prohibit a transgender teen from attending graduation in clothes that align with her gender identity, a judge ruled.