New York State Police are investigating unconfirmed reports that two killers who escaped from a maximum-security prison were traveling by foot near the New York-Pennsylvania border.

Just one strike from a perfect game, Max Scherzer saw it slip away with a misplaced slider. Or, some thought, a misplaced elbow.

James Jones died shielding his mother from bullets meant for him, according to family members.

A small group of parishioners was allowed inside the bullet-scarred Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church on Saturday, getting a firsthand glimpse of the room where nine people from their congregation were slain.

Two Chicago teenagers agreed to meet at a Hermosa taqueria to fight without weapons and then smoke weed together, but one of them brought a gun and shot the other to death, Cook County prosecutors said Saturday.

A woman charged with stabbing her husband to death told investigators she had worked as a butcher in Russia and killed him "professionally," just like she would have done at work, a criminal complaint alleges.