A Tasmanian man who hid $35,200 in drug cash behind his bathroom wall has been jailed for four years for running an ice trafficking operation from his rural property. Barry Littlewood Wagner, 67, was ...

A man who is serving a 13-year jail term for the manslaughter of his on-and-off partner has argued in court that the sentence ...

A 33-year-old woman will spend time in prison for stealing a 66-year-old man's vehicle at a Peoria shopping center.

Luke Truesdell, a 49-year-old Marion man, was sentenced on Friday to multiple life sentences for beating four people to death ...

A rural Chippewa Falls man convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl over a period of several months in 2024 was sentenced Wednesday to serve 20 ...

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Blue-tongue lizards, bearded dragons and desert skinks are among hundreds of reptiles seized by authorities as part of investigations into an illegal wildlife smuggling enterprise.

BRAINERD — A 36-year-old Brainerd man was sentenced Tuesday, Feb. 17, for the November 2024 shooting death of a man and the abduction of a pregnant woman and her children near Brainerd. Chad Aaron ...

A dramatic decline in enrollment in Massachusetts rural school districts over the last quarter century has created a vicious cycle of budget cuts and diminished academic opportunities for tens of ...

The federal government’s plan for expanding opportunity in rural America—to the extent there is one—seems to be trade school. Forget college, President Trump says. Build a workforce, and the jobs will ...

The Rural Health Transformation Program’s (RHTP's) $50 billion injection is “a significant step forward” for the rural health safety net but likely comes too late to reverse years of deterioration ...

There are 417 rural hospitals that are vulnerable to closure, according to a Feb. 10 report from Chartis, a healthcare advisory services firm. Chartis’ Rural Hospital Vulnerability Index assesses more ...