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LOS ANGELES (AP) — An ex-fiancee of Charlie Sheen has sued the actor claiming he didn't disclose he was HIV positive until after they had sex several ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — An officer is on trial for "what he did, or more importantly, what he did not do" to help Freddie Gray as the young black man suffere...

NEW YORK (AP) — Inspired by his own experience living in a New York City apartment building that was converted into high-priced condos, a 71-year-old ...

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — sentenced to death for his admitted role in the deadly 2013 attack — deserves a new trial to ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — A boy who was taken from his Alabama home by his father in 2002 and raised in Ohio under a new identity recently reconnected with his...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has shaken New York politics down to the granite foundations of the state...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted Monday in a $5 million corruption case that took down one of New York's mos...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The man accused of killing three people, including a police officer, at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — American activist Lori Berenson is finally heading home to New York, two decades after being found guilty of aiding leftist rebels i...

CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer charged with murder after a squad car video caught him fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times is exp...

BALTIMORE (AP) — In Baltimore, this year can be divided into two parts: what came before Freddie Gray died and what happened afterward. Gray, 25, suff...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland will not extradite Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski to the U.S. in an almost 40-year-old case after prosecutors dec...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — In new blow to media freedoms in Turkey, a court on Thursday ordered two prominent opposition journalists jailed pending trial o...

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida man who killed his wife and posted a photo of the bloody corpse on Facebook was convicted Wednesday of second-degree murder aft...

CHICAGO (AP) — Protest groups were set to return to the streets of Chicago on Wednesday, one day after the city released a squad-car video showing a w...

CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times was charged with murder Tuesday, just a day before the deadline a jud...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican tribunal on Tuesday rejected a journalist's request to dismiss charges against him for publishing confidential documents...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has sentenced detained Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian to an unspecified prison term following his conviction last m...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The wife of an actor known for his role on "The Shield" was having an affair before she was fatally shot by her husband last year a...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The sugar and corn industries ended their bitter billion-dollar dispute over sweeteners Friday in a secret out-of-court settlement....