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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s Southern Tier may get a casino after all after a state board voted Tuesday to reopen the bidding process for a casino i...

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Relatives of a black man who was shot and killed by a white South Carolina police chief say they will continue to seek justice...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The transit network in the nation's capital was hobbled Tuesday after an electrical malfunction filled a busy subway station with sm...

NEW YORK (AP) — Eleven years after filing a billion-dollar lawsuit, terrorism victims hope to prove that the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine L...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A federal judge in South Dakota has ruled the state's ban on same-sex marriages unconstitutional, but the decision doesn't me...

MARKHAM, Ill. (AP) — Opening statements began Tuesday in the trial of a suburban Chicago police officer accused of acting recklessly by fatally shooti...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The rapid hiring that made 2014 a stellar year for job gains is showing no sign of slowing down. U.S. employers advertised the most ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department and an independent agency tasked with investigating excessive force claims are inconsistent in determin...

A laptop computer seized from the vehicle of a man accused of killing three people in western Idaho could unveil clues into a motive for the shooting ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman became angry and threw a wine bottle at his ex-girlfriend when she tried to break up with him, according to a po...

WASHINGTON (AP) — If you're among the millions of consumers who got financial help for health insurance last year under President Barack Obama's law, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two Albuquerque police officers were charged with murder in the March killing of a homeless camper, a shooting that generated...

GALESBURG, Mich. (AP) — All lanes of Interstate 94 in southwestern Michigan reopened early Sunday, two days after a 193-vehicle pileup on the snowy hi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House plans a conference next month on efforts to counter violent extremism — in light of the past week’s shootings in Fra...

WASHINGTON (AP) — This isn’t explained in Econ 101. Month after month, U.S. hiring keeps rising, and unemployment keeps falling. Eventually, pay and i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — He hardly ever calls. When he does, it’s all business. And that’s President Barack Obama’s vibe with top Democrats on Capitol Hill. ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — After battles in Albany over who should have access to results of state-mandated teacher evaluations, the group given the right t...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of mostly French-speaking New Yorkers held pens aloft at a rally Saturday to insist on freedom of expression while decrying a...

EATONTOWN, N.J. (AP) — All that would peek above the ocean waves off New York and New Jersey would be two small buoys tethered to underwater pipes. Bu...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — From Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello in Virginia to Pennsylvania’s Gettysburg, an ambitious memorial is slowly sinking roots: the p...