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NAPA, Calif. (AP) — The largest earthquake to hit the San Francisco Bay Area in 25 years struck before dawn on Sunday, sending scores of people to hos...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten or 12 times a year, Beatrice Adams’ daughter would race her frail mother to the emergency room for high blood pressure or pain f...

ALTOONA, Iowa (AP) — Democrats with presidential dreams are coming to Iowa with little fanfare, entourage or recognition. They are undeterred by talk ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of people expressing grief, anger and hope for a better future marched through Staten Island on Saturday to protest the chok...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For three years, President Barack Obama has resisted the pull of potential U.S. military action in Syria. He has held firm even as t...

WESTFIELD, N.Y. (AP) — Two men were arrested Friday in the fatal shooting of an orchestra musician during a robbery in her western New York home, auth...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson's streets were peaceful for a third night as tensions between police and protesters continued to subside after nights of...

NEW YORK (AP) — The ice bucket challenge’s phenomenal success is making other charitable organizations rethink how they connect with a younger generat...

NEW YORK (AP) — What if Michael Brown’s last moments had been recorded? The fatal police shooting of the unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missou...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Call Luke Skywalker for backup. Police in Juneau took a call Tuesday to check out a suspicious device spotted on the side of a r...

CHELSEA, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say two children are recovering from injuries after falling at least 15 feet from a Ferris wheel at a community fair...

TWISP, Wash. (AP) — Rain unleashed mudslides on land left bare by wildfires, washing down hillsides and damaging homes and closing highways in north c...

CHICAGO (AP) — Two parolees have been charged with holding two adults and six children hostage in a 20-hour standoff in a Chicago suburb. Bond was set...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Gov. Bob McDonnell wrote a long, forlorn email to his wife three years ago trying to save his marriage, calling her his “s...

OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman accused of helping her husband dump their teenage baby sitter’s body in the woods after a night of sex and drugs has b...

SEATTLE (AP) — The location of the three bodies was revealed by the melting snow, but getting to them was another matter. They were high on a glacier ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon teenager who carved a swastika into another teen’s forehead as he and others tortured the boy has been sentenced to 11...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge has declined to allow Philadelphia prosecutors to introduce evidence that a woman charged with abducting and raping a kind...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Greeting cards celebrating same-sex marriages turned up at the Brigham Young University bookstore Tuesday. Placed by Hallmark, t...

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge on Wednesday granted Jodi Arias’ motion to delay the start of her planned Sept. 8 penalty phase retrial. Arias briefly...