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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama federal judge charged with domestic violence following his arrest in Atlanta is embarrassed and entering a treatmen...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry has formally pleaded not guilty to criminal charges of leveraging his power to try to oust a Dem...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who uses a biblical reference and a statement against “poisoned waters” on billboards opposing a local deep-injectio...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is promising to change the way travelers can ask to be removed from its no-fly list of suspected terrorists...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An “Obamacare” tax on medical devices is falling short of its revenue target because thousands of companies aren’t paying it, accord...

NEW YORK (AP) — Some costumed characters in Times Square ripped off their mammoth heads on Tuesday, showing their real faces to protest what they call...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal grand jury that heard testimony from several staff members and police officials linked to former Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has...

TWIN ROCKS, Pa. (AP) — The coroner says one person has died in a crash that closed a stretch of U.S. Route 422 in western Pennsylvania for several hou...

WEXFORD, Pa. (AP) — The state attorney general’s office has charged a western Pennsylvania man with attempted rape of a child and other crimes for all...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a 15-year-old boy is in critical condition at a Buffalo hospital after he was hit by gunfire on a city street. Detecti...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is promising to change the way travelers can ask to be removed from its no-fly list of suspected terrorists...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Holder talks about the nation’s civil rights struggles in a way no previous U.S. attorney general could — by telling his own fa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When racial tensions erupted midway through his first presidential campaign, Barack Obama came to Philadelphia to decry the “racial ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After promising not to withhold government information over “speculative or abstract fears,” the Obama administration has concluded ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York officials say 81 school districts and community groups are set to receive $340 million to fund full-day pre-kindergarten ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Man-made earthquakes, a side effect of some high-tech energy drilling, cause less shaking and in general are about 16 times weaker t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling for understanding in the face of racially charged anger, President Barack Obama said Monday that the vast majority of protes...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — An unarmed 18-year-old whose fatal shooting by police has sparked rancorous protests in suburban St. Louis suffered a bullet woun...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The police agency investigating how an industrial cleaning solution ended up in a woman’s iced tea at a Utah restaurant, badly b...

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — An owl flew into a 10th story apartment in Coeur d’Alene, apparently opened a bird cage and killed one of two canaries ins...