Eric Levenson

The Omicron wave of Covid-19 cases has receded significantly in the US over the past few weeks, but more people are dying each day from the contagious illness than died during the peak of the Delta wave last summer.

The governors of New York and Illinois are expected to announce the end of -- or a plan to end -- certain Covid-19 mitigation requirements involving masks on Wednesday, media reports say.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking for the public’s help in locating a man nicknamed the “Route 91 Bandit,” who they say is responsible for at least 11 bank robberies in New England over the past five months.

University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas won the 100-yard freestyle in a meet record of 47.63 seconds on Saturday at the Ivy League women’s swimming and diving championships.

A Kentucky prisoner who pulled people from the rubble of a collapsed candle factory in December was honored by a local sheriff last week for going “above and beyond” to help people.

The body of a 51-year-old woman was found inside a duffel bag on a street corner in Queens, New York, on Saturday and a trail of blood stretched from there to her nearby home, according to a spokesperson for the New York Police Department.

The murder defendant who escaped from an Alabama detention center with a corrections official on April 29 had previous experience trying to escape prison and winning the trust of his captors.

The 11-day manhunt for former Alabama corrections official Vicky White and the prisoner she helped escape ended in Indiana on Monday with her dead from a gunshot wound and him in handcuffs, authorities said. Yet the end of the saga leaves a number of questions still unanswered, none more so than the…

Prosecutors said in opening statements of Harvey Weinstein’s second criminal trial Monday that eight women will testify in court they were sexually assaulted by the powerful Hollywood mogul.

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin posted a photo of himself on social media Sunday that shows him sitting up in his hospital bed and rooting on his teammates less than a week after his cardiac arrest and on-field collapse.