A passenger who said she had a surgically implanted device inside her prompted a security scare that led to the diversion of a North Carolina-bound jet, officials said.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation threatened legal action over the online sale of a vial purportedly containing dried blood from the former president following a 1981 assassination attempt.

An Alabama women's prison is the focus of a formal complaint filed with the Justice Department on Tuesday that alleges male guards for years engaged in the widespread sexual abuse of female inmates, according to a nonprofit group called The Equal Justice Initiative.

Eight people were shot in Oklahoma City Monday night just blocks from the Chesapeake Energy Arena as large crowds were leaving the Thunder and the Los Angeles Lakers game, police said.

The climbers, hailing from four nations, died while coming down the southern slope of Mount Everest after reaching the 29,028-foot summit, officials said.

Authorities in Santa Monica, California, fatally shot a mountain lion Tuesday, acting on public safety concerns after it tried to escape from an office building courtyard in the city.