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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday that sexual assaults are a threat to both women and men in uniform and that the Pentagon...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia state officials were still trying Thursday to determine the environmental impact of a train derailment that plunged oil...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — An apparent gas explosion rocked a jail in the Florida Panhandle late Wednesday, killing two inmates, injuring more than 100 pe...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A former high school teacher who served one month in prison after being convicted of raping a 14-year-old student faces more ti...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal drug investigator testified Wednesday that a former Oklahoma doctor facing murder charges in connection with the overdo...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin called Wednesday for an independent review of the state's execution protocols after a botched procedure...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists implanted thin sheets of scaffolding-like material from pigs into a few young men with disabling leg injuries — and say t...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A contractor with a Navy program that trains dolphins and sea lions for missions drowned during a nighttime exercise in San Diego Bay...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Something strange is happening with tornadoes lately in the United States and it's baffling meteorologists. It's either unusually qu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans derailed a Democratic drive Wednesday to raise the federal minimum wage, blocking a cornerstone of President Bara...

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — People were plucked off rooftops or climbed into their attics to get away from fast-rising waters when nearly 2 feet of r...

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In the latest blow from a dayslong chain of severe weather across the South and Midwest, the Florida Panhandle and Alabam...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major anti-pollution ruling, the Supreme Court on Tuesday backed federally imposed limits on smokestack emissions that cross st...

CIUDAD MIER, Mexico (AP) — Once again, the bodies are piling up. On April 4, gunmen peppered the facade of Ciudad Mier's main hotel, leaving at least ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge sentenced a white supremacist Tuesday to four years of probation but no additional jail time for terrorizin...

LOUISVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Ruth Bennett died clutching the last child left at her day care center as a tornado wiped the building off its foundation. A ...

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — A FedEx employee wearing ammunition draped across his chest "like Rambo" opened fire Tuesday at a package-sorting center outside ...

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — A shooter described as being armed with an assault rifle and having bullets strapped across his chest "like Rambo" opened fire Tu...

LOUISVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A dangerous storm system that spawned a chain of deadly tornadoes over three days flattened homes and businesses, forced frig...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana GOP Rep. Vance McAllister, caught on camera kissing a married female aide, said Monday he's failed his family, let d...