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ATLANTA (AP) — The state of Georgia on Wednesday delayed the execution of its only female death row inmate, ahead of a winter storm forecast to hit ma...

ETNA, Maine (AP) — More than 40 vehicles crashed on a snowy stretch of Interstate 95 in Maine on Wednesday, injuring at least 17 people, police said. ...

OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — The driver of a pickup truck that a Southern California commuter train smashed into at a railroad crossing did "all he could" to...

STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — Jurors who rejected an insanity defense and convicted a former Marine in the deaths of famed "American Sniper" author Chris...

NEW YORK (AP) — Three men accused of plotting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State and wage war against the United States were arrested on ter...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State militants struck before dawn, staging house-to-house raids in a cluster of villages nestled along the Khabur River in ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska has cleared up some confusion in the rush to legalize marijuana, but even that process had its missteps Tuesday. A voter ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Defense attorneys say Las Vegas police were aware a suspect in a neighborhood woman's killing was smoking marijuana before he surrend...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — States are trying to reduce prison populations with secretive, new psychological assessments to predict which inmates will co...

OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — A commuter train slammed into a truck abandoned on the tracks early Tuesday, sending three rail cars tumbling onto their sides a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin in a 2012 confrontation with the teenager,...

GENEVA (AP) — The United States and Iran are working on a two-phase deal that clamps down on Tehran's nuclear program for at least a decade before pro...

HARRISON, N.Y. (AP) — A retired officer's suicide note indicates that the killing of his teenage daughters in their beds was a premeditated act, a sub...

PENNSAUKEN, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a tanker truck carrying nearly 9,000 gallons of fuel has caught fire on a major highway in southern New Jersey...

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Attorneys for a Maine man accused of luring a 15-year-old to her death via a fake Facebook page say someone else kidnapped and ki...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A U.S. Marine who vanished a decade ago in Iraq was convicted Monday of desertion for leaving his post there and then fleeing to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — America's biggest tobacco companies are asking a federal appeals court to set aside a series of court-ordered advertisements saying ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cameron Diaz and Kirk Cameron received the dubious honor of being dubbed the year’s worst actress and actor at the 35th Annual Gold...

The agency created five decades ago to fight poverty in Appalachia has helped county economies grow with nearly $4 billion in spending, but the region...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The federal government predicts that trains hauling crude oil or ethanol will derail an average of 10 times a year over the nex...