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BOSTON (AP) — Jurors considering the fate of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) asked a complicated question Thursda...

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man who was arrested after "liking" his mug shot on a Crimestoppers Facebook page has posted bond in a felony forg...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — It's a girl! Finally. The gender of a baby hippo was surprisingly hard to find for the San Diego Zoo, taking nearly two months to unc...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Demonstrators blocked traffic and chanted as they marched through the streets of Wisconsin's capital city on Wednesday to voice t...

NEW YORK (AP) — A man suspected of attacking four people with a hammer this week was shot and wounded by police Wednesday after he pulled a hammer fro...

BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday made their final appeal to the jurors who will decide the fate of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, tel...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Police officers recovered a handgun from George Zimmerman and took two guns from a man accused of shooting at Zimmerman while bot...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell's Arctic drilling program has cleared a major bureaucratic hurdle to begin drilling for oil and gas off Ala...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A University of Virginia associate dean sued Rolling Stone magazine on Tuesday for more than $7.5 million, saying a debunked acco...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Melissa and Michael Mooneyhan met as high school students and quickly fell in love. The two were married in 2004, even before...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — 11:25 a.m. The family of a biracial man killed by a white police officer isn't pleased with a prosecutor planning to announce a c...

SMETHPORT — The Smethport Area School Board on Monday adopted a tentative 2015-16 budget in the amount of $14,593,843 — a 1.83 percent increase over t...

After 13 years with no tax increases, the Bradford Area School District has announced a 2015-16 preliminary budget of $39.4 million, that if approved,...

JOHNSONBURG —Johnsonburg’s battle against blight continues to be an uphill one, according to residents who blame lax code enforcement and a fractured ...

CELORON, N.Y. (AP) — A statue of Lucille Ball in her western New York hometown may not be very flattering, but it sure is funny. The “Scary Lucy” stat...

A new type of blood test is starting to transform cancer treatment, sparing some patients the surgical and needle biopsies long needed to guide their ...

TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska corrections officials believe other inmates likely killed two prisoners who died during a disturbance at a maximum secu...

HASTINGS, Minn. (AP) — Prosecutors said Monday they'll prove that a national right-to-die group assisted in the 2007 suicide of a 57-year-old Minnesot...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The compact city that inspired ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft is offering a new way to get to work: fancy $6 big-bus rides ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — One of two brothers accused of fatally shooting two police officers has mental problems and is addicted to drugs, appearing ...