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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The former headmaster of an elite Delaware prep school founded by members of the du Pont family was sentenced Friday to 50 yea...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Funeral plans are set for Freddie Gray, the Baltimore man who died a week after he was critically injured in police custody. A wake w...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — More than a dozen students suffered minor injuries after a stage packed with dancing and clapping youths collapsed during a musica...

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown's parents filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city of Ferguson on Thursday, opening a new chapter in the lega...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Supporters of a proposed ban on the sale of ivory and rhinoceros horns in Vermont are upset by a move to insert exemptions into...

PHOENIX (AP) — The self-proclaimed "America's Toughest Sheriff" came under sharp questioning Thursday over his TV interviews, press releases and campa...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Attorneys for four Minnesota men accused of trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group challenged the government...

2:35 p.m. Massachusetts' Episcopal Church bishops, like their Roman Catholic counterparts, say they're opposed to the death penalty for Boston Maratho...

BOSTON (AP) — The prosecution rested its case Thursday during the penalty phase of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial after playing a vi...

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (AP) — A SkyWest airlines flight to Connecticut was diverted, descended steeply and made an emergency landing in New York on Wednesd...

STONY RIDGE, Ohio (AP) — The maze of steel cages where bears and black leopards roamed for more than three decades are quiet now. The growls and roars...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A bourbon theft ring targeting the Buffalo Trace and Wild Turkey distilleries operated for years as a lucrative business, involv...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma law allows former law enforcement officers to return to the profession as reservists with little training, but the state...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Amid tears and cries for justice, demonstrators poured into the streets of Baltimore carrying signs emblazoned with the name of a man...

BOSTON (AP) — The mother of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer killed by Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was so distraugh...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan is "clinically ready" to live fulltime outside a mental hospital, his lawyer argued...

FORT BENNING, Ga. (AP) — Authorities at Fort Benning, the U.S. Army post in west Georgia, say they're dealing with an ongoing "emergency situation" at...

WEST POINT, Ga. (AP) — A shooting inside the Kia Motors auto manufacturing plant in Georgia left one worker wounded and another in custody after armed...

BOSTON (AP) — First, the jury was shown large, vibrant pictures of the four people killed in the Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath. Then prose...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Geological Society said Tuesday it is “very likely” that most of the state’s recent earthquakes were triggered by th...