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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida prosecutor on Friday cast a former Florida A&M University band member as the orchestrator of the 2011 beating death of ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The skulls of an older man and woman were found at a Connecticut waste transfer station near some books and videos on witchcraf...

Saturday was supposed to be the day that Brittany Maynard killed herself. She still might do it, but her latest message seems to suggest she intends t...

FORT KENT, Maine (AP) — Kaci Hickox is free to travel unrestricted after a Maine judge on Friday rejected the state’s bid to limit her movements as a ...

GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A judge gave Celia Savage a break in February when he sentenced her to probation after federal authorities found pipe bombs an...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — With an election four days away, President Barack Obama urged women to raise their voices in favor of economic policies that b...

NEW YORK (AP) — That bowl of chocolates for ninjas and ghosts won’t cost you more this Halloween. Picking the perfect sweet for your Valentine could. ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A settlement has been reached in the only case to go to trial following a 2009 plane crash into a home outside Buffalo, New York ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A small plane lost power after takeoff and crashed into a building Thursday while trying to return to a Kansas airport, killing t...

BREAUX BRIDGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana State Police say a pickup truck hit and killed two schoolchildren who were walking to school and a third one was s...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The man suspected of opening fire this week on two victims in front of a courthouse turned himself in hours after his brother was...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Police on Wednesday were investigating a possible connection between a man who was fatally struck by a train and a woman who ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A 29-year-old terminally ill woman who plans to take her life under Oregon’s death-with-dignity law has fulfilled a wish on her ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Fewer threatened grizzly bears are being killed in and around Yellowstone National Park, and scientists said their numbers appe...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The man once identified as the suspected gunman in a courthouse shooting in North Carolina had a credible alibi that led to his r...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina police chief says the man once identified as the suspected gunman in a courthouse shooting had credible alibi th...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors filed murder charges Tuesday against two Utah residents in the slayings of two California sheriff’s deputies dur...

HONOLULU (AP) — After weeks of slow, stop-and-go movement, a river of asphalt-black lava was within yards of a home in a Big Island community Tuesday....

NASHVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A manhunt is on for two suspects in the shooting of two men outside a North Carolina courthouse Tuesday, authorities said. Nash...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A black man killed by Utah police died of multiple gunshot wounds, including several in the back of his body, according to an au...