(UNALASKA, Alaska) -- A twin-engine Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to Unalaska Island overshot the runway and stopped just short of plunging into the waters of the bay Thursday evening.

(FORT WORTH, Texas) -- Sacramento Kings star Harrison Barnes and Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Malik Jackson joined forces this week to help supply funeral services for Atatiana Jefferson, a black woman who was fatally shot by a white police officer in her Texas home last week.

(NEW YORK) -- A veteran who served five years in the U.S. Marine Corps and two tours in Iraq is facing imminent deportation to El Salvador -- a country he left when he was 3 years old -- over felony convictions despite being a legal permanent resident.

(SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.) -- A California police officer was placed on administrative leave this week after video appeared to show him threatening a group of teen skaters at gunpoint, authorities said Thursday.

(WASHINGTON) -- The United States Marine Corps corrected the identity of another one of the six men raising the American flag on Mount Surabachi in an iconic photo taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945, after new evidence was provided by three amateur historians.

(FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.) -- A missing 15-year-old girl in North Carolina has been found after an Amber Alert was issued earlier in the day.

(NEW ORLEANS) -- Multiple victims injured in the Hard Rock Hotel collapse in New Orleans filed a lawsuit on Thursday against five companies involved in the construction of the building.

(NEW YORK) -- Deaths by suicide among correctional officers so far in 2019 have tied the highest total ever recorded, according to the head of their union.

(CHICAGO) -- Thousands of Chicago Public School teachers went on strike Thursday, fighting for working conditions "that respect educators and provide Chicago’s students with the schools they deserve."

(NEW YORK) -- Three months after gunfire shattered a neighborhood block party, killing one person and injuring 11 in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, N.Y., police say they have a suspect in custody.

(KATY, Texas) -- A 29-year-old man was shot dead by intruders in his Texas home, though his wife and young children, who were also there, escaped without injury, authorities said.

(NEW YORK) -- Over half a million people were in the dark across New England Thursday after a powerful Nor'easter struck overnight, bringing heavy rain, flooding and violent winds.

(WASHINGTON) -- For asylum-seeker Miguel Angel Giron Martinez, getting to the U.S. border was the easy part.

(NEW YORK) -- A Georgia school district backtracked on its progressive transgender bathroom policy on Wednesday after staff members said they received death threats over the issue.

(CENTERVILLE, Utah) -- An officer with the Utah Highway Patrol said he was still trying to "process" the terrifying moment when he pulled a man out of the path of an oncoming train.

(HOLLYWOOD, Fla.) -- Two women spiked a tourist's drink at a South Florida casino before bringing him back to his hotel room and robbing him of $1,000 cash and a Rolex worth $15,000, authorities said.

(SEMINOLE, Fla.) -- Police arrested a Florida teenager on Wednesday when he allegedly threatened to carry out a mass shooting at school after getting into a fight.

(WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla.) -- A Florida school resource officer was terminated for accidentally discharging his weapon while fidgeting with it in a school cafeteria.

(CROCKETT, Calif.) -- California officials are investigating the cause of a fire this week at an energy facility that brought a major interstate highway to a halt and forced thousands of residents to shelter in place for hours, including the possibility that it was sparked by the 4.5 magnitu…

(NEW YORK) -- Heavy rain, gusty winds and possibly flash flooding are headed to the Northeast as a nor'easter strengthens off the coast.

(NEW YORK) -- The death by suicide suffered on Tuesday by the New York Police Department was the second in the U.S. within 24 hours, continuing a worrying trend among law enforcement.

(NEW YORK) -- A Wisconsin man who claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting never happened was ordered to pay $450,000 to the father of a boy killed in the massacre.

(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) -- A new $20,000 reward was offered by Crime Stoppers Wednesday as the desperate search continues for a 3-year-old girl who was allegedly abducted in Alabama.

(LA HABRA, Calif.) -- Students at a California high school tackled a gunman and managed to take his weapon from him after brandishing it at the school, police said.

(POLK COUNTY, Fla.) -- A man accused of slaying three people across two states allegedly told a victim who survived he wanted to be a serial killer.

(SEYMOUR, Ind.) -- A baby was found alive and healthy in a plastic bag alongside an Indiana roadway this week, prompting a police investigation, officials said.

(WASHINGTON) -- Lee Boyd Malvo, one of the two "D.C. snipers" whose murderous seven-week rampage terrorized the nation's capital region in 2002, wants a chance at getting his life back.

(HARTFORD, Conn.) -- The Connecticut State Police has released the 911 call from a woman who said she was trapped inside the luggage compartment of a Peter Pan bus this summer.

(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Marshals Service, the agency tasked with tracking down the nation’s most dangerous fugitives, released a partial list of its "15 Most Wanted" -- those criminals believed to be the most dangerous to the public.

(WASHINGTON) -- A manhunt spawned by the death of an on-duty police officer, including a SWAT team and highway closures, has been suspended after the medical examiner's office on Tuesday ruled that he had died of a self-inflicted wound.

(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) -- Birmingham, Alabama, police said Tuesday evening they have charged two persons of interest brought in as they search for a missing 3-year-old girl, but all charges are unrelated to the disappearance.

(NEW YORK) -- Authorities released a sketch on Tuesday of a man they believe may have information on 5-year-old Dulce Maria Alavez, whose disappearance nearly a month ago from a New Jersey park has left few answers.

(NEW YORK) -- A pair of Ohio teenagers have been charged in a deadly log tossing incident that claimed the life of a photography teacher last month.

(FORT WORTH, Texas) -- An 8-year-old boy who witnessed his aunt being fatally shot by a Fort Worth, Texas, police officer who fired through a window of their house told investigators she had retrieved a handgun from her purse and pointed it toward a window when she was killed, according to a…

(HELENA, Mont.) -- A device found at a Montana elementary school on Tuesday that authorities initially said was an explosive actually turned out to be a plastic bottle covered in tape, police said.

(NEWARK, Del.) -- Twenty-six years after a young woman was sexually assaulted in the middle of the night in Delaware, a man unknown to police at the time has been arrested after DNA evidence linked him to the scene.

(STOCKTON, Calif.) --  For Falaviena Palefau, being able to buy her 12-year-old daughter new shoes for her birthday was a present for both of them.

(TAMPA, Fla.) -- A 1-year-old girl died after being left inside a hot car for hours on Monday in Florida, marking the fifth hot car death in the Sunshine State this year and the 50th nationwide.

(MOUNT SHASTA, Calif.) -- Four bodies have been recovered after a man allegedly went to a California police station and confessed to killing his family members, authorities said.

(DUBLIN, Calif.) -- Oscar-nominated actress Felicity Huffman, who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the massive "Varsity Blues" college entrance scandal that ensnared her and dozens of parents, reported to a Northern California prison on Tuesday to begin serving a 14-day sentence, acco…

(LOS ANGELES) -- The Saddleridge Fire that has burned through thousands of acres in Southern California began near the base of a transmission tower in northern Los Angeles, according to investigators.

(ENCINO, Calif.) -- An Uber passenger who got into a physical altercation with another rider was struck and killed by a California highway patrol car after jumping from the Uber and running across a highway.

(NEW YORK) -- A storm system will move through the South Tuesday with heavy rain that could cause flash flooding.

(FORT WORTH, TX.) -- The police officer who fatally shot a Fort Worth, Texas, woman in her home while answering a call for a welfare check has been arrested on murder charges. The charge comes after the officer abruptly resigned on Monday just before he was about to be fired for allegedly vi…

(NEW YORK) -- Statues of Christopher Columbus were vandalized amid continued calls to change the name of the federal holiday honoring the Italian explorer.

(NEW YORK) -- Police are investigating the abduction of a New York boy who was abducted on Monday when his family's car was stolen.

(FORT WORTH, TX.) -- The police officer who fatally shot a Fort Worth, Texas, woman in her home while answering a call for a welfare check abruptly resigned on Monday just before he was about to be fired for allegedly violating multiple department policies, the police chief said.

(LOS ANGELES) -- California became the first state in the nation to require later start times at most schools.