The scandal over a New Jersey’s couple’s alleged mishandling of GoFundMe donations they raised for a homeless good Samaritan has brightened the spotlight on the wide range of ways the crowdfunding platform as helped -- and horrified -- since it was founded in 2010.

The parents of a nurse who died young several years ago, prompting bill collectors to go after her parents to pay her student loans, say they are heavily in debt and worse off than when their plight grabbed national headlines in 2014.

They say no good deed goes unpunished.

Miami Dolphins wide receivers Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson were the first players of the first NFL Sunday of the season to take a knee during the national anthem.

A young man sitting on an eight-foot surf board in Oahu on Saturday was attacked by a shark, which bit his elbow and wrist, leaving him to bleed profusely.

Dorothy Mae Neal, who was 83 and a familiar figure in her neighborhood, often seen walking with her cane to the bus stop, was raped and beaten to death allegedly at the hands of a 14-year-old neighbor, Baltimore police said.

As Gov. Jerry Brown’s long tenure draws to a close in January, some capital punishment supporters are raising the specter that the politician who is firmly opposed to executions may commute many, if not all, the sentences of the nearly 750 inmates on death row.

The Catholic Church is against staggering under the weight of a report by a grand jury in Pennsylvania found that possibly more than 1,000 children in six dioceses had been sexually abused by about 300 priests or higher ranking officials.

Michael Wildes, one of the nation’s most prominent immigration attorneys, says the employment eligibility system that is meant to flag people who are not authorized to be in the country is not reliable, as shown by Christhian Rivera’s ability to work under someone else’s name.

At a special White House ceremony on Monday, President Trump honored the two agencies -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection -- at the center of the national debate over how to handle the influx of families and unaccompanied children at the U.S.-Mexican border.