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International Emmy nods: Haiti orphans, refugees
Television productions that explored the children orphaned by Haiti's devastating earthquake and took viewers aboard a boat smuggling refugees from ...
Police: Pa. woman cited nonexistent twin in theft
Police say a western Pennsylvania woman blamed her nonexistent twin sister for stealing items from a hotel room. The Beaver County Times (http://bit.
50 buildings destroyed in Northern Calif. fire
A Northern California fire burned dozens of buildings and threatens hundreds more as firefighters work to stop the blaze in a densely forested, remote ...
Armed Wash. man arrested in alleged Obama threat
The Secret Service on Tuesday arrested a Washington state man accused of making an email threat against President Barack Obama and brandishing a ...
Friends tweet before dying in Md. train derailment
They were seemingly ordinary tweets from two friends hanging out on a railroad bridge in their hometown, enjoying one last summer night together ...
Family wants more answers about handcuffed death
Chavis Carter's family hasn't accepted the official explanation for his death: that he was on meth when he fatally shot himself while his hands were ...
Blasting at NYC subway site breaks windows
Blasting at the construction site for a new subway line shattered windows and sent smoke billowing up to the street on Tuesday, but no injuries were ...
Unheard MLK audio reel found in attic
Stephon Tull was looking through dusty old boxes in his father's attic in Chattanooga a few months ago when he stumbled onto something startling: an ...
NJ girl accused of setting home fire just moved in
A 15-year-old girl charged with setting her home ablaze and trying to kill family members sleeping inside had moved back in with her mother only days ...
Corps: Low Mississippi causes harbor closures
Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say low water levels that are restricting shipping traffic, forcing harbor closures and causing ...
Oil resumes upward march, hits 3-month high
The price of oil resumed climbing Tuesday, reaching its highest point since early May. Speculation that the U.S. Federal Reserve might take action to ...
Huge fire burns to edge of 3 small Calif. towns
Aided by a shift in wind direction, firefighters on Tuesday are making a stand against a huge lightning-sparked wildfire burning on the edge of three ...
5 children killed in SUV crash in East Texas
Investigators say two boys and three girls died when a crowded SUV they were traveling in crashed in East Texas. Department of Public Safety Trooper ...
Beloit College's Mindset List for Class of 2016
Every year, Beloit College in Beloit, Wis., releases its Mindset List to give a snapshot of how the incoming freshmen class views the world. The list ...
NBC: Michael J. Fox will return to series TV
NBC has made it official: Michael J. Fox is coming back to series TV more than a decade after he left to concentrate on fighting Parkinson's disease.
NYPD: Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases
In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police Department's ...
TransUnion: Late auto-loan payments fall in 2Q
More Americans are making their car payments on time, a trend that has sent the rate of overdue auto loans to the lowest level on records dating back ...
Would-be NJ Samaritans restrain victim, help thief
Police say a thief got away after two good Samaritans grabbed the wrong person on a northern New Jersey street. The Samaritans were driving down a ...
Pa. woman, 72, robbed twice in a single day
Police say a western Pennsylvania woman had her checkbook stolen and as she went to the police station to report the crime, her purse was swiped.
US horse rescues overwhelmed by abandoned animals
The Double R Horse Rescue looks different in drought: There's little but stubble in the pastures and a chain and padlock on the gate. The owner began ...
Supporters attend vigil for man shot in police car
Dozens of supporters have gathered outside the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was slain to pray for a young man who was fatally shot in the back ...
Autopsy: Man shot in police car had meth in system
A man police say shot himself in the head while his hands were cuffed behind him in the back of an Arkansas patrol car tested positive for ...
Highlights from the 15 Mindset Lists since 1998
For the past 15 years, Beloit College has published an annual Mindset List to help remind professors that cultural references familiar to them might ...
Chris Brown, Drake sued again over NYC club brawl
A model who was injured during a bottle-throwing nightclub brawl between Chris Brown and Drake sued both singers and the owners of the New York City ...
Vatican win: Judge says priests aren't employees
The Vatican won a major victory Monday in an Oregon federal courtroom, where a judge ruled that the Holy See is not the employer of molester priests.