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DALLAS (AP) — Health officials in Texas have reached out to about 80 people who may have had direct or indirect contact with the man who brought Ebola...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Opponents of Wisconsin’s voter photo identification law asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to take emergency action and blo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service Director Julia Pierson abruptly resigned Wednesday in the face of multiple revelations of security breaches, bumbling...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday directed military medical officials to show within 45 days how they will improve care, pa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man accused of jumping a fence at the White House pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he ran into the presidential mansio...

CANADENSIS, Pa. (AP) — For a region so dependent on tourism, the headline could scarcely be worse: A survivalist charged with ambushing a Pennsylvania...

Two studies give disappointing news for parents looking for a way to prevent celiac disease in babies at higher risk for it because of family history....

MARYSVILLE, Wash. (AP) — An inmate’s escape from a jail in Washington state went undetected for two days last week until the man’s defense lawyer stop...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Michael Dunn was shooting to kill, not defending himself, when he fired at 17-year-old Jordan Davis after the two had an arg...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson got a fair trial after a hotel room heist and there’s no need for another trial following his 2008 conviction and impris...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will become the first state that allows family members to ask a judge to remove firearms from a relative who appe...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A northern New Mexico county and police officers in a small city falsely detained an Albuquerque man diagnosed with schizophr...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The penalty for using an ATM that is not affiliated with your bank rose 5 percent over the past year. The average fee for using an ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A man whose chance encounter with a despondent stranger led to a stabbing he called assisted suicide pleaded guilty Monday to manslaug...

DENVER (AP) — Sitting with her 11-year-old daughter, a woman from El Salvador told of fleeing a violent husband, as immigration judges in Denver began...

BOSTON (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in the federal trial of a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who is accused of lyin...

PHOENIX (AP) — About two dozen potential jurors who said they could not be impartial have been dismissed Monday in the penalty retrial of convicted mu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton say they are “blessed, grateful, and so happy” to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Institutes of Health is preparing to care for an American doctor who was exposed to the Ebola virus while volunteering ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The parents of Michael Brown told The Associated Press on Saturday they were unmoved by the apology given by the Ferguson, Missouri,...