Ashley Southall

The official, Dan Pacholke, resigned amid a political dispute over a computer coding error that allowed an estimated 3,000 inmates to be released early over 13 years.

Shots rang out when a confrontation between biker gangs erupted Saturday at a motorcycle show in Denver, leaving one person dead and several others injured.

In response to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, President Barack Obama authorized FEMA to provide water, filters and other supplies for residents whose water has been poisoned with lead.

Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of News Corp., and the former model Jerry Hall got engaged over the weekend and announced their pending nuptials in the classifieds of a newspaper he owns.

Five months after the shooting rampage last summer at two Navy facilities in Tennessee, five service members who were killed and one survivor will be awarded Purple Heart medals, the military said Wednesday.

Douglas Tompkins, a noted conservationist and the founder of the clothing brands The North Face and Esprit, died on Tuesday of hypothermia after a kayaking accident in the Patagonia region of southern Chile. He was 72.

David Carr, a writer who wriggled away from the demon of drug addiction to become an unlikely name-brand media columnist at The New York Times and the star of a documentary about the newspaper, died Thursday in Manhattan. He was 58.