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SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — We've trudged through deep powder, braved icy slopes and weathered rain, wind and snow in an annual quest to reac...

GLOVERSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A judge has dismissed stalking and harassment charges filed against an ice cream truck operator who had been accused of tryi...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man got a surprise when he stopped to pull a large orange bag off the highway, fearing that it would become a traffic haz...

BOSTON (AP) — A report by Massachusetts' emergency management agency cites a "lack of weapons discipline" among some police officers during the chaoti...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) — A man reported missing at sea two months ago was rescued on the overturned hull of his sailboat off the North Carolina coast, a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Whites in the United States approve of police officers hitting people in far greater numbers than blacks and Hispanics do, at a time...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After securing a surprisingly broad and detailed framework for a nuclear agreement with Iran, President Barack Obama must now subjec...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama heralded a framework nuclear understanding with Iran as a “historic” agreement and warned Congress Thursday a...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers announced proposed changes Thursday to the state's new religious objections law aimed at quelling widespread cri...

DETROIT (AP) — A mother charged in the slayings of two of her children whose bodies were found in the deep freezer at their Detroit home will undergo ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts' New York chapter said Thursday that it has hired the nation's first openly gay Eagle Scout as a summer camp leader, wh...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two women were arrested Thursday after undercover investigators determined they were trying to build a homemade bomb, prosecutors said...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Three Ku Klux Klan members who worked at a Florida prison have been charged with plotting to kill a black inmate after his re...

PHOENIX (AP) — Four Peaks Brewing Co. has grown over the last two decades from a historic red-brick microbrewery and restaurant into an Arizona staple...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Engineers have come up with a motor-free device to make walking more efficient and easier — something scientists once thought couldn...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andrew Getty, among the heirs in a family whose name is synonymous with elite American wealth, was found dead in his Hollywood Hill...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The driver killed in a violent confrontation at a National Security Agency gate identified as transgender and was a sex worker in Bal...

BOSTON (AP) — A latent fingerprint examiner for the FBI has testified at the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-...

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Two cross-dressing men who were shot at by National Security Agency police when they disobeyed orders at a heavily guarded gate...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two former federal agents are accused of using their positions and savvy computer skills to siphon more than $1 million in digita...