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LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The Hunger Games" finale held its spot atop the box office for the third weekend in a row, scaring off the holiday horror comedy "...

Throngs of Black Friday holiday shoppers and revelers provided cover for a million-dollar jewelry heist at a store at Santa Fe's scenic downtown plaza...

SEATTLE (AP) — The strain of E. coli linked to Costco chicken salad that sickened 19 people in seven states is more likely to be life-threatening than...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal transportation officials are rethinking their position on self-driving cars with an eye toward getting the emerging technol...

NEW YORK (AP) — Some big retailers face scrutiny for opening on Thanksgiving, but many small stores have no choice. Take jeweler Jerry Amerosi, who ha...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The sugar and corn industries ended their bitter billion-dollar dispute over sweeteners Friday in a secret out-of-court settlement....

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Radioactive well-water contamination could threaten some 1,400 people in a rural farming community if federal regulators allow the na...

San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf typically bustles this time of year as workers prepare to haul millions of pounds of Dungeness crab that are a tradi...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado officials say they didn't endorse an Environmental Protection Agency cleanup operation that caused a massive spill of toxic was...

SEATTLE (AP) — Chipotle said Tuesday that it is reopening the 43 Pacific Northwest restaurants it closed amid an E. coli outbreak after tests at the M...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Animal rights activists applauded SeaWorld's plans to end its orca shows at its San Diego park but said the company should phase out ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Chelsea Patricia Ake-Salvacion liked working at a Las Vegas cryotherapy center so much that she stayed behind when her boyfriend move...

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Elephant tusks, leopard heads, crocodile skin purses and tiger skins — more than 1.5 million items in all — fill the shelv...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Excited shoppers looking to score some of the first recreational marijuana sold legally in Oregon bought up baggies of bud early...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Traditional power companies are getting into small-scale solar energy and competing for space on your rooftop. The emerging c...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's medical marijuana dispensaries are getting ready for a watershed moment this week: when recreational pot users will als...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A physician assistant who wasn't licensed or trained to perform surgery operated on hundreds of patients while the orthopedic surge...

PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — Expect to see a lot of Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael this Halloween. Some of the most popular costumes are expect...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A long-delayed rule to strengthen safety requirements for pipelines that move oil and other hazardous liquids will be unveiled ...

DENVER (AP) — The yellow plume of contaminated wastewater that spilled from an abandoned Colorado mine and flowed downstream toward two other states i...