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WASHINGTON (AP) — Five air traffic controllers have exposed a problem that is putting planes at risk of colliding or causing accidents due to wake tur...

HOUSTON (AP) — A school bus plunged off a highway overpass in Houston after being hit by a car on Tuesday, killing two students and seriously injuring...

EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky State Police trooper wanted to do a favor for the driver he pulled over late at night. It turned out the man was driv...

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago teenager already charged with punching a Sikh man during what authorities describe as a road rage incident has...

MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (AP) — Barbara McWilliams told her caretaker she didn't want to leave her home near Middletown, despite a nearby wildfire. The worl...

LA PLATA, Md. (AP) — The facts are hard to fathom: a mother alone with her 3-year-old son in a playground for two days straight, pushing him in a swin...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Clerk Mike Johnston prays twice a day, once each morning and once each night, and asks the Lord to understand the decision he m...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Ukrainian firm and its CEO are paying $30 million to settle U.S. regulators’ charges they were part of an international web of hac...

WASHINGTON (AP) — No checks, please. Starting next year, your check won’t be any good at the IRS — if you’re making a tax payment of $100 million or m...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia is in the midst of a steady military buildup at a Syrian airport, indicating Moscow intends to create an air operations base ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — No government shutdown this year, Republican congressional leaders say. But with Congress, it’s never easy. A band of conservatives ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A lame-duck president, an empowered opposition, a looming election: They’re hardly the ingredients for a resounding White House triu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration’s struggling quest to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is mired in state and federa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Pope Francis arrives on his first-ever visit to the United States, he will be welcomed in a way that few world leaders have: wi...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Newtown and its schools are putting up a stiff fight against a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the parents of two children kill...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Once upon a time, pumpkin spice lived pretty much only in pies. That was a long time ago. These days, it’s a modifier on a list of ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A professor was killed in his office at Delta State University in Mississippi, an official said Monday, and the campus remained ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Tricycles might seem pretty tame but they send thousands of kids to emergency rooms each year and are even linked to a handful of death...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Miss Georgia Betty Cantrell is the new Miss America . Cantrell rode an opera performance to the title in Atlantic City's Bo...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Board of Trustees for New York’s state universities has adopted a diversity policy calling for a chief diversity officer on ev...