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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Three years after Connecticut abolished the death penalty for any future crimes, the state's highest court on Thursday spared t...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police outnumbered protesters along West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson overnight, signaling the demonstrations around the anniver...

KEENE, N.H. (AP) — Fifty years after Jonathan Daniels was shot dead by an ardent segregationist in Alabama, the people who stood with him then lament ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A fatigued Wal-Mart truck driver failed to slow down despite a warning and was responsible for a highway crash last year that severe...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The brother of a college football player killed by police at a Texas car dealership has questioned whether deadly force was ne...

HOUSTON (AP) — Neighbors of a family fatally shot in a Houston home were aware the household had problems, including a history of domestic violence, a...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The latest in the events marking a year since the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri (all times local): ___...

HOUSTON (AP) — A woman who previously dated the man accused of fatally shooting her, her husband and six children texted her mother before her death t...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A suspect who authorities say opened fire on officers in Ferguson, Missouri, on the anniversary of Michael Brown's death was crit...

A man accused of killing a Shreveport police officer was arrested Thursday after a round-the-clock manhunt, police said. Grover Cannon, 27, was in a b...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A man suspected in the killings of a Mexican photojournalist and four women acknowledged being in the apartment where the slayings ...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Marcus Weaver spent nearly three years talking openly about forgiving the man who shot him, killed his friend and caused unto...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — What initially appeared to be another mass shooting at a movie theater ended up being an attack by a disturbed homeless man wh...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill Cosby is expected to give sworn testimony in October in a lawsuit from a woman accusing the comedian of sexually abusing her w...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Richmond police chief promised a thorough investigation after a black man was killed in a shootout with a white officer who w...

HOLMDEL, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with shooting two people outside a Big Sean and J. Cole concert. State police anno...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Busta Rhymes has been charged with assault after allegedly throwing a protein drink at a Manhattan gym employee. Authorities sa...

ANTIOCH, Tenn. (AP) — A man armed with a hatchet and gun unleashed a volley of pepper spray at audience members inside a movie theater Wednesday, exch...

UTOYA, Norway (AP) — Four years after a right-wing extremist gunned down 69 people, Norway's idyllic island of Utoya is reopening to a flood of newcom...

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The latest in the sentencing phase of the Colorado theater shooting trial (all times local): 10:37 a.m. The oldest person kil...