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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming man who stole a train from a coal mine and took it for a joyride because he was mad at his boss has been sentenced to ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Less than two months before he was killed, Walter Lamer Scott turned 50 and wanted everyone around him to join in the ce...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 20-year-old man has been charged with planning a suicide bomb attack against the Fort Riley military base in Kansas, in an ...

HESPERIA, Calif. (AP) — A news video shows California sheriff's deputies tracking down a man fleeing on horseback and then punching and kicking him do...

12:50 p.m. CDT The DeKalb County coroner's office has identified a second person found dead in the northern Illinois community of Fairdale after torna...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dashboard video shows a police officer making a routine traffic stop. Cellphone video shows the officer shooting the fle...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A broad swath of the Midwest readied for hail, damaging winds and possibly tornadoes Thursday as a strong storm front rumbled through...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For nearly a half-century, Sen. Ben Cardin has been a state legislator, speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, a member of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Wednesday that Germany, China, Japan and South Korea are four countries running large trade surpluses ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Snap back? Not so fast. The biggest enforcement provision in the preliminary nuclear agreement with Iran is turning into one of the ...

CHICAGO (AP) — At least one large tornado touched down Thursday night in central Illinois, and authorities said initial reports indicate there was sig...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The Caribbean region collectively cheered when President Barack Obama was first elected president in 2008. Calypso and reggae...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service has placed a high-ranking supervisor on administrative leave and suspended the supervisor’s security clearance af...

BOSTON (AP) — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all charges Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing by a jury that will now decide whether the 21-ye...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A woman convicted of fatally poisoning her 5-year-old son with salt in his hospital feeding tube got a break on her murder s...

DALLAS (AP) — Volunteer firefighters south of Dallas have been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a man at their fire station in what a p...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada prison guards created a "gladiator-like scenario" to let two handcuffed inmates fight before a corrections officer trainee fir...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white South Carolina police officer who claimed he killed an unarmed black man in self-defense has been fired, the cit...

BOSTON (AP) — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all charges Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing by a federal jury that now must decide whether t...

CELORON, N.Y. (AP) — The mayor of Lucille Ball's western New York hometown says he'll hire a new sculptor to "fix" the village's much-maligned statue ...