The first Latino to be named the United States Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera, is the son of California farm workers.

Shohei Ohtani looked up at a visiting crowd that turned out to cheer him and the Los Angeles Dodgers — and ended up getting ...

North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson vowed on Thursday to remain in the race despite a CNN report that he posted strongly worded racial and sexual ...

One of the greatest rock bands will be coming to Houston next year. Metallica’s M72 World Tour is extending into 2025 with a major stop at Houston’s NRG Stadium ...

A judge in a rural Kentucky county was shot and killed at the local courthouse on Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear announced. A suspect in the shooting has been taken into ...

A local man will spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of parole for the 2016 murder of his girlfriend, Amalia Alexander. She filed domestic violence charges ...

Tesla has patented a wireless EV charging system, indicating that the company is preparing to commercialize tech that’s been ...

Nexstar’s WNCN also learned Thursday that the lieutenant governor’s office at the state legislative building had been cleared out.

A House committee advanced sweeping online protections for kids Wednesday, but many lawmakers did so begrudgingly.

Four Venezuelan nationals confined in a federal immigration facility for almost a year are challenging the legality of their detention.

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) traded personal swipes over who takes more medication after Moskowitz attacked Comer’s ...

President Joe Biden said Thursday the Federal Reserve’s decision to lower interest rates was “an important signal” that ...