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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia celebrated May Day with its first joyful parade across Red Square since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, as President Vladimir...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — An apparent gas explosion all but destroyed a jail in the Florida Panhandle, killing two inmates and injuring more than 180 peo...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two Alaska State Troopers have been shot and killed during an investigation in a remote village, including at least one who h...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added a robust 288,000 jobs in April, the most in two years, the strongest evidence to date that the economy is picki...

BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say federal prosecutors shouldn't be allowed to use his status as a new Am...

TEANECK, N.J. (AP) — Sixty-two students were arrested Thursday after police said they broke into their high school overnight for a senior class prank,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Maryland high school teacher who helps push students toward college was honored at the White House on Thursday as the National Tea...

CINCINNATI (AP) — An appeals court heard arguments Thursday over whether a gossip website should have been immune from a defamation lawsuit brought by...

WASHINGTON (AP) — From huge state universities to small colleges and the Ivy League, 55 schools across America are facing federal investigation for th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday that sexual assaults are a threat to both women and men in uniform and that the Pentagon...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia state officials were still trying Thursday to determine the environmental impact of a train derailment that plunged oil...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — An apparent gas explosion rocked a jail in the Florida Panhandle late Wednesday, killing two inmates, injuring more than 100 pe...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A former high school teacher who served one month in prison after being convicted of raping a 14-year-old student faces more ti...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal drug investigator testified Wednesday that a former Oklahoma doctor facing murder charges in connection with the overdo...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin called Wednesday for an independent review of the state's execution protocols after a botched procedure...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists implanted thin sheets of scaffolding-like material from pigs into a few young men with disabling leg injuries — and say t...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A contractor with a Navy program that trains dolphins and sea lions for missions drowned during a nighttime exercise in San Diego Bay...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Something strange is happening with tornadoes lately in the United States and it's baffling meteorologists. It's either unusually qu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans derailed a Democratic drive Wednesday to raise the federal minimum wage, blocking a cornerstone of President Bara...

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — People were plucked off rooftops or climbed into their attics to get away from fast-rising waters when nearly 2 feet of r...