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ORLAND, Calif. (AP) — A FedEx tractor-trailer crossed over a grassy median on a Northern California freeway and slammed into a bus carrying 44 high sc...

MONROE, La. (AP) — Embattled Louisiana Rep. Vance McAllister issued a less-than-ironclad vow to stay in office Thursday as the state's Republican gove...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Internet connection and a bunch of stolen identities are all it takes for crooks to collect billions of dollars in bogus federal ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — After a scathing report by the U.S. Justice Department revealed a troubling and often unjustified pattern of excessive force ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A 2-year-old boy shot dead while playing in the front yard of a South Bend home with his 7-year-old sister may have been struc...

WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — As mourners trickled by Thursday to honor the 4-year-old girl who was killed and 14 others injured in a crash at a Florida da...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government's budget deficit shrank to just $37 billion in March from $107 billion in the same month last year, the latest s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked the U.S. Agency for International Development on Thursday to turn over all records abou...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is telling his Russian counterpart that Russia could face tougher economic sanctions because of its act...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A yearlong review of information the U.S. intelligence community had prior to the Boston Marathon bombing found that the government ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Don’t rule out Niagara Falls as a potential future home of the Buffalo Bills. Several officials told The Associated Press that a ...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills have released defensive end Kourtnei Brown. The move was announced by the team on Thursday. It was made tw...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A prosecutor hammered at Oscar Pistorius’ credibility at his murder trial Thursday, asserting that the star athlete had ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Investigators are trying to determine what caused a medical helicopter to crash while taking off from the roof of New Mexico'...

DENVER (AP) — The gay rights movement's winning streak in same-sex marriage lawsuits faces its biggest test yet in Denver where a federal appeals cour...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Navy warship carrying a family whose sailboat broke down in the Pacific Ocean with a sick toddler arrived on Wednesday in San Diego...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A suspected contract killer charged with killing nine people in three California counties over several decades is being investig...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A confounding computer bug called "Heartbleed" is causing major security headaches across the Internet as websites scramble to fi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ways and Means Committee voted Wednesday to refer a former Internal Revenue Service official to the Justice Department for...

PARIS (AP) — NATO's top military commander in Europe, drafting countermoves to the Russian military threat against Ukraine, said Wednesday they could ...