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5 children, 1 adult die in Mississippi wreck
Five young siblings and one adult died early Saturday when a sport utility vehicle went off an eastern Mississippi road and plunged into a ...
Former President Bush moved out of intensive care
Former President George H.W. Bush's condition continued to improve Saturday, prompting doctors to move him out of intensive care, a spokesman said.
Mexico City orders prison in animal cruelty cases
Mexico City lawmakers have approved prison terms for animal cruelty, previously considered a civil offense sanctioned with fines and detentions.
After a century, US Arabs look for pieces of past
Tossing and shivering below deck, Hussien Karoub felt ill. In the cold, crowded conditions, sleep came seldom. When it did, it didn't last long: The ...
Woman charged in New York firefighter slayings
William Spengler raised no alarms in prison for 17 years and for more than a decade afterward. Well-spoken, well-behaved and intelligent, his demeanor ...
Maine same-sex couples marry in first hours of law
Arriving in a limo, Donna Galluzzo and Lisa Gorney had all the trappings of a traditional wedding: Rings, flowers, wedding vows, an entourage and a ...
Maine greets gay marriage with midnight weddings
After waiting years and seeing marriage rights nearly awarded and then retracted, gay couples in Maine's largest city didn't have to wait a moment ...
Gay marriage law goes into effect in Maine
Chris Kast and Byron Bartlett already consider themselves married after a 2010 ceremony overlooking Portland Harbor, but now they're doing it all over ...
'Tragic number': Chicago reaches 500 homicides
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy says the city has logged its 500th homicide of the year. McCarthy issued a statement Friday calling the ...
Mayor: Keep 2 NY subway push deaths in perspective
For New York City, it wasn't an unusual sight: a possibly mentally ill woman pacing and mumbling to herself on an elevated subway station platform.
NY woman charged in connection with slaying of 2
The neighbor of a convicted felon who ambushed firefighters on Christmas Eve, killing two, bought the guns for him and lied to the seller, knowing ...
Wis. couple says pet chicken alerted them to blaze
A Wisconsin couple says clucks, not fire trucks, helped them escape a blaze at their home. Dennis Murawska, 59, said a pet chicken named Cluck Cluck ...
Report: Hazing rules ignored before death at FAMU
A blistering state report released Friday contends that Florida A&M University officials failed to follow state laws and regulations on hazing in the ...
Mexico finds smuggling tunnel near US border
Mexican authorities have discovered a sophisticated smuggling tunnel equipped with electricity and ventilation not far from the Nogales port of entry ...
Vigil marks 2 weeks since Conn. school massacre
Religious leaders from different faiths gathered Friday on a wind-swept, snowy soccer field to mark two weeks since the Connecticut elementary school ...
Trains playing major role in Plains oil boom
Energy companies behind the oil boom sweeping the Northern Plains increasingly are turning to trains to move their crude across the U.S. The move ...
LA police: Fire set on woman 'defies explanation'
Police say the attack defies explanation: A man poured flammable liquid on a 67-year-old homeless woman as she slept on a bus bench in the San ...
Husband charged in Wis. officer's shooting death
An Iraq War veteran charged with ambushing his wife Christmas Eve as she worked as a Milwaukee-area police officer told investigators he shot her in ...
Woman set on fire in LA as she sleeps on bench
For more than 10 years, the homeless woman slept on the same plastic bus stop bench at a busy intersection in the San Fernando Valley, no matter how ...
Vegas police investigate discovery of girl's body
Police investigating the week-old disappearance of a 10-year-old Las Vegas girl said Thursday they think they found the child's body in an undeveloped ...
Husband charged in killing of Wisconsin officer
An Iraq War veteran told detectives that he stalked his wife for several days while she was patrolling the streets of the Milwaukee suburb where she ...
Chief of staff: Bush getting excellent treatment
Former President George H.W. Bush, who has been hospitalized for more than a month, is getting excellent medical treatment and would advise people to ...
Texas officer who ended '66 UT sniper rampage dies
The Austin police officer who helped stop Charles Whitman's 1966 sniper rampage from atop the University of Texas tower has died. Houston McCoy fired ...
Emails show OSU officials fretted over coverage
Oklahoma State University officials fretted about the school's public image as details emerged about the sexual assaults of several male students on ...
Gun group offers training for Utah teachers
Jessica Fiveash sees nothing wrong with arming teachers. She's one herself, and learned Thursday how to safely use her 9 mm Ruger with a laser sight.