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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius whose struggle with schizophrenia was chronicled in the 2001 movie "A Beautiful Mind,...

CARY, N.C. (AP) — Dawn Silsbee and her siblings never knew their Uncle Bert — he died years before they were born. But they saw what his loss did to t...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Martinez thinks of his son every day, and with those thoughts come the constant reminder of a young life cut tragically sho...

DETROIT (AP) — Street artist Shepard Fairey has finished work on a large mural in downtown Detroit. The roughly 185-foot-tall by 60-foot-wide mural wa...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Police say a belligerent man dressed in scuba gear caused a stir at a northern Michigan fast food restaurant. The Traverse...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of people marched peacefully in Washington state's capital city to protest a police shooting that wounded two unarmed s...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Kasey Hayes hopped on the bovine beast trapped in the narrow holding pen like he'd done hundreds of times. He adjusted a tigh...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal regulators have ordered the company whose pipeline spilled thousands of gallons of oil across a California coastline to tak...

BURIEN, Wash. (AP) — When prosecutor Dan Satterberg used to visit Washington state's police academy, the seas would part before him. Recruits would sn...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. marshals and police tracked down and arrested a dangerous ex-convict and five others, bringing a sudden and safe ending to a mu...

BALTIMORE (AP) — All six officers charged in the police-custody death of Freddie Gray were indicted by a grand jury, a prosecutor said Thursday. The i...

HONOLULU (AP) — The military on Wednesday said a second Marine has died of injuries he received after an Osprey aircraft crashed during a training exe...

DENVER (AP) — Lawmakers have reached a deal to keep construction underway on a troubled Veterans Administration hospital outside Denver. The VA was on...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California farmers who hold rights to water that date back as far as the Gold Rush are bracing for their first state-ordered...

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — More than 7,700 gallons of oil has been raked, skimmed and vacuumed from a spill that stretched across 9 miles of California coa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators believe a suspect in the mysterious slayings of a wealthy Washington family and their housekeeper is in the Brooklyn a...

NEW YORK (AP) — The national president of the Boy Scouts, Robert Gates, says the organization's longstanding ban on participation by openly gay adults...

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — Cleanup crews fanned out Wednesday along a stretch of scenic California coastline stained by thousands of gallons of crude oil t...

HONOLULU (AP) — A second Marine has died of injuries he suffered when a hybrid military aircraft crashed last weekend during a training exercise in Ha...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Six years before he died in a car crash, Daniel W. Quinlan was among the 138 World War I veterans to receive the first Purple Hear...