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Southwest Airlines has fired the captain who piloted the Boeing 737 jet that landed so hard at New York's LaGuardia Airport in July that the airplane's nose gear collapsed, injuring more than a dozen people and jamming air traffic for hours.

PHOENIX - A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday ordered a monitor be appointed to oversee the work of hard-line Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio to ensure that his officers no longer use racial profiling, especially of Latinos, when cracking down on illegal immigration. U.S.

Frantic members flocked to a North Carolina church Wednesday to learn whether their friends and relatives were among eight people killed and 14 others injured when a bus carrying elderly congregants overturned in eastern Tennessee.

POTUS digs the pontiff.President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he is "hugely impressed" with Pope Francis' humble style.

Frantic members flocked to a North Carolina church Wednesday to learn whether their friends and relatives were among eight people killed and at least 12 others injured when a bus carrying elderly congregants overturned in eastern Tennessee.

A motorcyclist who may be paralyzed after being run over during a clash between bikers and a Range Rover on a New York City highway has hired high-profile lawyer Gloria Allred.

A New Hampshire woman was shot and killed by state police Monday after leading troopers on a high-speed car chase, according to NBC affiliate WHDH in Boston.Wendy Lawrence, 45, of Canterbury, N.H.

Restrictions put on imprisoned Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are so harsh and isolating that he's having a hard time helping prepare for his defense, his attorneys told a judge on Wednesday.The attorneys asked the judge to lift the restrictions on Tsarnaev as he awaits trial.

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he is “exasperated” by the government shutdown and warned Wall Street that the country is "in trouble.

A church bus traveling from North Carolina overturned Wednesday in Jefferson County, Tenn., killing at least eight people and shutting down both directions of Interstate 40, authorities told NBC News.In addition to the deaths, there were also multiple injuries, the state Highway Patrol said.