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BALTIMORE (AP) — Teenagers awaiting trial on adult charges in Baltimore are being kept in solitary confinement far too long — up to 143 days in one ca...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, the wily Nevadan who dominated the Senate for a decade from the minority to the majority and ba...

DENVER (AP) — Authorities say there's no evidence a baby cut from her mother by a stranger was alive outside the womb. Boulder County Coroner Emma Hal...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The University of Oklahoma on Friday plans to disclose the results of its investigation into a racist fraternity chant that was c...

SEATTLE (AP) — Despite the murder case hanging over her head, Amanda Knox has tried to lead a normal life in the more than three years since she was f...

NEW YORK (AP) — Firefighters on Friday used high-powered water towers to extinguish pockets of fire at the site of an apparent gas explosion in Manhat...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl says he was tortured repeatedly in the five years he was held captive by the Taliban: beaten with a coppe...

BOSTON (AP) — An FBI expert has told the jury in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) that the bombs used...

CHICAGO (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. left an Alabama federal prison early Thursday bound for a halfway house, where he begins his transit...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A woman accused of decapitating her 3-month-old daughter pleaded not guilty Thursday to a charge of aggravated murder. Deasia Watkin...

VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — Northern California investigators say they were suspicious when a man took hours to report that strangers broke into his home a...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It was a long journey of conscience for a former Louisiana prosecutor. He went from celebrating a death sentence with rounds of dri...

LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado woman whose unborn baby was cut from her womb by a stranger with a kitchen knife has been released from a hospital a...

BOSTON (AP) — Jurors in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) have been shown pressure cooker parts, BBs, ...

DENVER (AP) — The legalization of marijuana in Colorado hasn't solved the racial disparities in enforcement that drug-policy reformers had hoped to en...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Distractions — especially talking with passengers and using cellphones — play a far greater role in car crashes involving teen drive...

NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty-five years ago, what was then the biggest mass murder in U.S. history turned a dance club into a smoky, flame-filled inferno th...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jose Lantigua's family appeared to be living the American Dream. The Cuban immigrant claimed he had a heroic military career...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — A nearly yearlong search for a missing Alaska family has come to a grim end with the discovery of four bodies, a dead dog and a h...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Police Chief Rick Hite says three women and a man have been shot to death in a home in a high-crime Indianapolis neig...