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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A massive cleanup effort is getting underway in Alaska, with tons of marine debris — some likely sent to sea by the 2011 tsunami...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island beach has reopened a day after an unexplained blast knocked a beachgoer to the ground but investigators conclud...

CHICAGO (AP) — Police departments across the country that have spent years boasting about plummeting crime numbers are now scrambling to confront some...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Screams and cheers are cheap at Comic-Con, but the energy stepped up a notch Saturday evening after fans got their first look at "Dea...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Who yelled "everybody into the pool?" After all the candidate announcements, after all the speculation about who'd go first and who'...

MALONE, N.Y. (AP) — The second of two convicted murderers who staged a brazen escape three weeks ago from a maximum-security prison in northern New Yo...

DENVER (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told conservatives Saturday that the Supreme Court tried to “unwrite the laws of nature ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — When New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie enters the race for president this week, he’ll do so as an underdog. The launch of the Republ...

PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (AP) — Former “Saved by the Bell” actor Dustin Diamond is asking a judge to delay his sentence for a Christmas Day stabbing in a...

JAMESTOWN, New York (AP) — Did you hear the one about Bob Hope, Rodney Dangerfield and Andy Kauffman performing on the same stage? It might not be a j...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ownership of secret recipes and ingredients from an Ohio restaurant made famous on the TV series “M-A-S-H” is at the center of a l...

NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Squire, the bassist and co-founder of the progressive rock band Yes who recently announced he had leukemia, has died, according ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — David Bowles is excitedly making plans to move from a homeless shelter to an apartment of his own in a few weeks, thanks to a new De...

An unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station broke apart Sunday shortly after liftoff. It was a severe blow to NASA,...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The historic African-American church in South Carolina where nine people were killed during a Bible study is again the scene o...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A parade that at times resembled a rainbow-colored dance party snaked Sunday through downtown San Francisco, the centerpiece of a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer’s disease are women, and now some scientists are questioning the long-held assumption ...

MALONE, N.Y. (AP) — One of two convicted killers who staged a brazen escape from an upstate maximum-security prison and had been hunted for three week...

DETROIT (AP) — A wall of silence surrounds a shootout at a block party in Detroit that left a 19-year-old gunman dead and 11 other people wounded, pol...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church opened its tall, wooden doors to the world Sunday, embracing strangers who walked i...