More than 3,000 prisoners in Washington have been mistakenly released early since 2002 because of an error by the state’s Department of Corrections that resulted in wrongly calculated sentences for about 3 percent of the prison population. At a news conference announcing the error Tuesday, Gov. Jay Inslee said he… Read More

A dead yellow-bellied sea snake from southern Mexico has been discovered on Bolsa Chica beach, only the third one ever reported in California. Natural History Museum snake curator Greg Pauly says it’s only the seventh or eighth one ever seen north of Baja California’s Magdalena Bay. All the California sightings… Read More

An 18-year-old Helena man is charged with threatening to shoot a boy for sharing information about a subplot of the new “Star Wars” movie during an online conversation. Arthur Charles Roy was charged with felony assault with a weapon Monday during an appearance in Lewis and Clark County Justice Court…. Read More

The superpower we’ve all been waiting for could finally be possible! The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed software that allows radio signals to recognize human silhouettes through walls.   The Associated Press contributed to this article. 

When Rafia Sultana Farook needed help, she often turned to her younger son, a quiet and devout Muslim who the FBI says began veering toward radical ideology while living under her roof. After filing for divorce and claiming she was abused, Farook relied on Syed Rizwan Farook to help supervise… Read More

A grand jury decided that neither sheriff’s officials nor jailers committed a crime in the treatment of a black woman who died in a Texas county jail last summer, but it has not yet determined whether the state trooper who arrested her should face charges, a prosecutor said. Prosecutor Darrell… Read More

Prosecutors say he helped beat his two teens savagely as part of a cult ritual, one of whom was beaten to death. Now, he could be making a deal. The father of two teens beaten inside an upstate New York church has been offered a plea deal in his second-degree… Read More

A Maine high school has reversed its decision to prevent a math teacher from keeping a pink Hello Kitty Christmas tree in her classroom. Bangor High School officials had said Catherine Gordon had to remove the tree. The superintendent said the tree needed an educational component. But WABI-TV reports principal… Read More

The U.S. will protect lions in Africa under the Endangered Species Act, the Obama administration announced Monday, a move that would make it harder for American big-game hunters to bring a lion head or hide into the country. The effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service comes five months… Read More

Guests who got stuck on the Sky Tower at SeaWorld Orlando have made it safely to the ground. The park said in a news release that crews managed to lower the ride’s cabin Monday afternoon after it malfunctioned more than two hours earlier. The release says the cabin stopped about… Read More