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MECHANIC FALLS, Maine (AP) — A Halloween-themed hayride loaded with passengers crashed down a hill in the Maine woods and slammed into a tree, fatally...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Hurricane Fay toppled utility poles and knocked out power to thousands of people in Bermuda before moving out over open ocean...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration’s promise to limit U.S. military engagement against Islamic State militants makes it difficult to accept Tu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top federal health officials said Sunday that the Ebola diagnosis in a health care worker who treated Thomas Eric Duncan at a Texas ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Customs and health officials began taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at New York’s Kennedy International Airport from thr...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A US Airways flight from New York safely made an emergency landing Saturday evening at its destination in Charlotte after oxyge...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A group that came together after a surprise autumn snowstorm killed thousands of Buffalo’s trees is nearing its goal of replacing...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s Senate Democrats have regrouped from the squabbling and disarray that left them out of power four years ago. Now the ke...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday wrapped up a week that saw him raise campaign money for Democrats on both coasts. Obama attend...

NEW YORK (AP) — Customs and health officials began taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at New York's Kennedy International Airport from thr...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Tense but peaceful protests over Michael Brown's death and other fatal police shootings in Missouri and elsewhere stretched acros...

WASHINGTON (AP) — World financial leaders on Saturday promised “bold and ambitious” action to boost a global recovery that has shown recent disturbing...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 40 years ago, authorities said former diplomat William Bradford “Brad” Bishop Jr. bludgeoned his family to death with a sledg...

DETROIT (AP) — Jurors were deadlocked and a judge declared a mistrial Friday for a Detroit police officer charged with recklessly handling his gun and...

The FBI will use DNA from a decades-old cigarette butt in its quest to determine whether a body exhumed from an Alabama grave is one of its top 10 mos...

Weddings, court rulings and confusion are defining a week that started with the U.S. Supreme Court denying appeals from five states seeking to retain ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah schoolteacher who was injured by fragments from a bullet and a porcelain toilet when her gun accidentally went off in a f...

NEW YORK (AP) — Don’t ask for a raise. Keeping quiet will give you “superpowers” that will translate into employer trust and other “good karma” that w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Medicare “Part B” premium that most older people pay for outpatient care will stay the same in 2015 — $104.90 a month. The gover...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration announced Wednesday that airline passengers arriving from the three West African countries experiencing an ...