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BALTIMORE (AP) — As freshmen descend on college campuses, they enter the “red zone” — a period between Labor Day and Thanksgiving during which they ar...

HUDSON, Fla. (AP) — SWAT teams swarmed a downtown Tampa hotel early Friday, arresting a suspect in the killing of four people whose bodies were found ...

BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors asked a judge Friday to reject a bid by Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to dismiss charges against...

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) — Two Massachusetts men planning to prank a stranger by springing from a box in a scary mask were thwarted by an alert off-duty...

PINECREST, Fla. (AP) — Several hundred people have arrived at the Temple Beth Am in Florida for a memorial service for Steven Sotloff, days after Isla...

NEW YORK (AP) — Joan Rivers was fearless. Or, to be more accurate, a humorist who fearlessly spun fears into gold. They were golden, Rivers’ potshots,...

BOSTON (AP) — A pharmacist who oversaw the sterile clean rooms at a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy responsible for a deadly meningitis outbreak wa...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The remains of an unidentified victim of recently deceased Alaska serial killer Robert Hansen were being exhumed from an Anch...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A woman said she and her family were watching a tabletop science demonstration at a Nevada science museum when it erupted in a chemi...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP acted “recklessly” and bears most of the responsibility for the nation’s worst offshore oil spill, a federal judge concluded Thu...

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York state health department is investigating the circumstances surrounding Joan Rivers’ cardiac arrest during an outpatient p...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Air Force still hasn’t determined the extent of contamination from a fuel leak discovered 15 years ago at a New Mexi...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge upheld Louisiana’s ban on same-sex marriages on Wednesday, as well as the state’s refusal to recognize gay marriage...

DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit man was sentenced Wednesday to at least 17 years in prison for killing an unarmed woman who appeared on his porch be...

VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A graphic designer on a biking trip from Maryland to Miami was fatally stabbed by a homeless man outside a Florida McDonald’s ...

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Lingering questions about Michael Brown could be answered Wednesday when a judge considers two media requests to release any possi...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a decision allowing the U.S. government to keep secret photographs and videotapes of a Guantanamo d...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A Justice Department lawyer has told a federal judge that a tough new Texas voter ID law was motivated by racial discrimi...

PHOENIX (AP) — A 9-year-old girl who accidentally killed an instructor with an Uzi at an Arizona shooting range said immediately after the shooting th...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Thirty-two teens escaped from a Nashville youth detention center by crawling under a weak spot in a fence late Monday, and nin...