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September 27, 2016

APNewsBreak: Another prep school finds sex abuse in its past

The Pomfret School in Connecticut has revealed that several of its teachers engaged in improper conduct with students between ...

September 27, 2016

Panama asks US to extradite ex-leader Martinelli

Panama has formally asked the United States to extradite former President Ricardo Martinelli in connection with a ...

September 27, 2016

Slain Florida club victims' estates to get $350,000 each

Each of the estates of the 49 patrons killed in the gay nightclub massacre in Orlando will receive $350,000 from donations ...

September 27, 2016

Coast Guard searches for Cuban migrants from capsized boat

The U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed that four bodies found in two locations were those of Cuban migrants who had been on board ...

September 27, 2016

US consumer confidence jumps in September

U.S. consumer confidence in September rose to the highest level in nine years, a hopeful sign that economic growth will ...

September 27, 2016

New Jeep Compass SUV looks like shrunken Grand Cherokee

The fastest-growing part of the U.S. auto market is getting another new vehicle. Fiat Chrysler's Jeep brand unveiled a ...

September 27, 2016

House explosion kills fire battalion chief, a rising star

A battalion chief who had been considered a rising star in the Fire Department of New York was killed Tuesday when a row ...

September 27, 2016

Police: Woman robs Arby's restaurant, flees in taxi cab

A Florida woman faces armed robbery charges after police say she robbed an Arby's restaurant in Gainesville and then hailed ...

September 27, 2016

Before mall shooting, courts ordered mental health treatment

Assaults on his parents and inappropriate sexual behavior at school led judges to order mental health treatment for the young ...

September 27, 2016

Man plucked from life boat after week at sea reaches Boston

A Vermont man who spent a week at sea in a life raft before being rescued by a passing freighter was questioned by Coast ...

September 27, 2016

Iowa city braces for highest floodwaters since 2008 record

Residents of Cedar Rapids are watching anxiously as the quickly rising Cedar River threatens to inundate their city with ...

September 26, 2016

Suspects, victims in California killings were 'furries'

Two men arrested in the killings of a California couple were friends with the victims' teenage daughter and attended "furry" ...

September 26, 2016

New car mileage estimates drop as EPA changes test formula

Highway gas mileage estimates for about one-third of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. will fall by one mile per gallon ...

September 26, 2016

Mall victims include Macy's worker, teen, probation officer

Five people were killed in a shooting this weekend at a Macy's store in a mall north of Seattle. Authorities do not plan to ...

September 26, 2016

Police: Mall shooting suspect confessed, shot 5 in 1 minute

The suspect accused of killing five people at a Macy's department store confessed to police, court documents said, but his ...

September 26, 2016

Mexico: 6 slain in Pacific coast resort city of Mazatlan

Mexican authorities say they have found the bound, asphyxiated bodies of five men and a woman in the Pacific coast resort ...

September 26, 2016

Catholic Church alleges smear campaign against slain priests

Mexico's Roman Catholic Church on Monday harshly criticized what it called a campaign to smear three priests murdered in less ...

September 26, 2016

Memorial to confront South's troubled history of lynchings

Southern states have long welcomed tourists retracing the footsteps of the late Martin Luther King Jr. and others who opposed ...

September 26, 2016

Florida-bound airliner makes emergency landing in New York

A Florida-bound Spirit Airlines jet with 142 people aboard has made a safe emergency landing in New York after a reported ...