A police report says three Cleveland women held in captivity inside a home for about a decade were threatened, starved and raped.

Newly elected Congressman Mark Sanford and his ex-wife have settled a complaint that said he was at her home without her permission in violation of their divorce agreement.

A Cleveland man arrested after three women missing for a decade were found alive at his run-down home was charged Wednesday with kidnapping and raping them.

The widow of dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has hired a criminal lawyer with experience defending terrorism cases as she continues to face questions from federal authorities.

Jodi Arias has been convicted of first-degree murder in the brutal stabbing and shooting death of her one-time boyfriend in Arizona.

The court has rejected former Columbia County Commissioner and Harlem Mayor Scott Dean's argument that he was unfairly convicted.

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has redeemed a political career sidelined by scandal by winning his old congressional seat.

Lawyers for the man accused of killing 12 people and injuring 70 in a Colorado movie theater say he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.

Police Chief Michael McGrath says Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were tied up at the house and held there since they were in their teens or early 20s.

Authorities say three people are dead after an overnight crash between a car and a passenger train in northern Georgia.

Chattanooga police say a participant in a bicycle race has been killed in a collision with a car.

Investigators are trying to figure out how a woman ended up under a bridge in North Myrtle Beach with a fatal head wound.

U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson is meeting with employees of the Savannah River Site to talk about furloughs resulting from federal budget cuts.

Sweeping changes are coming to Georgia's juvenile justice system. Gov. Nathan Deal made it all official when he signed a new law today.

Massachusetts Department of Public Safety spokesman Terrel Harris says a funeral home retained by Tsarnaev's family picked up his body Thursday. He has no more information.

Clemson University is telling its students to watch out for a 23-year-old man who they say made threats to kill people on a college campus.

Houston police Capt. Dwayne Ready says it's unclear if the unidentified man fatally shot himself or was killed by a Homeland Security agent who had confronted him.

The mother of rapper Chris Kelly has told authorities her son became sick after taking cocaine and heroin on the night before he died.

Actress Reese Witherspoon recalls that she panicked and said "crazy things" the night she was arrested in Atlanta on a disorderly conduct charge.

Four elementary school students and a teacher on a field trip to the Georgia coast were hospitalized after being caught up in a rip current in the Atlantic Ocean.

South Carolina lawmakers have given final approval to legislation that would give federal authorities information about people who have been determined by a court to have mental problems.

Sheriff's deputies say 42-year-old Clarence Edward Risher, Jr., and his wife, 43-year-old and Melinda Montjoy Risher, were arrested earlier this week.

A third college friend of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects is being held pending a detention and probable cause hearing.

Gov. Nathan Deal has signed a bill into law requiring childcare workers to undergo comprehensive, fingerprint-based background checks.

A newborn boy and his mother are expected to be fine after the woman went into labor in her car in metro Atlanta.