A patrol officer found the body of the missing child the following day in the large man-made lagoon, submerged in about 7 feet of water near where the attack happened.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, immediately cheered the decision.
On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel warning after five Zika infections were confirmed in Miami-Dade County.
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson has recommended firing seven officers accused of covering up the police shooting of Laquan McDonald in October 2014.
A rapidly moving wildfire has forced the evacuation of some 82,000 people in San Bernardino County, just east of Los Angeles, officials say.
Such inequality has afflicted many U.S. cities over the past three decades, sometimes stoking unrest when police use deadly force.
Towns downstream of the areas hardest hit over the weekend watched anxiously as floodwaters crested and slowly began receding overnight into Tuesday.
Muslims are living "in the crosshairs of bigotry", New York's mayor has said, a day after an imam and his associate were killed while leaving a mosque.
HE TOLD detectives he stabbed his 14-year-old girlfriend’s mother to death after she caught the pair having sex in a car, according to prosecutors.
The events promote Snowden’s credentials as a whistleblower whose disclosures triggered significant changes in the U.S. surveillance laws.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the report will help provide a "road map" for changes already underway in the department.
THE family of a Muslim boy who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school has sued Texas school officials, saying they violated the 14-year-old boy’s civil rights.
Frustrated travelers experienced long waits at airports worldwide today as Delta Air Lines grounded all flights because of a computer system outage.
Prosapio said the park was closed and would remain closed on Monday. She added that a full investigation would be conducted on the ride.
Police outside the US city of Baltimore shot and killed a woman holed up with a five-year-old boy.
A PILOT has been forced to tackle a passenger who allegedly shoved a flight attendant to the ground and threatened to break the captain’s jaw.
A Missouri police officer, though, told the AP that Nichols was arrested there in 2000 on a felony driving while intoxicated charge. The case was resolved two years later when he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor version of the charge.
At least one person has been killed, and four injured in Austin, Texas after two separate shootings in the downtown area of the city, emergency services and police stated.
Five people were detained by police, but it's unclear if any were believed to be a shooter.