China has stepped up patrols near the outlying county of Kinmen in what Taiwan says is a campaign to change the status quo.

Pennsylvania State Police say five police officers were shot in York County Wednesday afternoon. Three of them were killed. Two others are in critical but stable condition. The suspect is dead.

The National Weather Service has issued air quality alerts in Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky.

Authorities are investigating the recent death of an inmate at the California State Prison in Sacramento, as a homicide. On the evening of July 18, prison staff found 23-year-old Anthony Francis Jr. unconscious on the floor of his cell. His cellmate,...

NORTH CODORUS, Pa. (AP) — Three police officers were fatally shot and two wounded Wednesday in southern Pennsylvania, and the shooter was killed by police, authorities said. The officers were at the scene, amid rolling farmland, to follow up on a domestic-related...