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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 ...

September 26, 2016

The Latest: Investigators still at Houston shooting scene

The Latest on a shooting at in Houston neighborhood (all times local): 5:10 p.m. Houston police and state and federal agents ...

September 26, 2016

Houston gunman had 2 weapons, thousands of rounds at scene

A disgruntled lawyer wearing military-style apparel with old Nazi emblems had two weapons and more than 2,500 rounds of live ...

September 26, 2016

Rescued boater spent week adrift on raft; mom presumed dead

A Vermont man whose boat sank spent seven days adrift on an inflatable life raft before he was rescued off the coast of ...

September 25, 2016

Mall victims include teen, probation officer, Boeing worker

Five people died in the shooting at a Macy's store in a mall north of Seattle. Authorities do not plan to make their ...

September 25, 2016

Runners sidelined by bomb blast take to streets of NYC

A group of runners whose New Jersey race was canceled after a pipe bomb exploded on the route linked arms as they joined a ...

September 25, 2016

Gas prices up 4 cents to $2.25 a gallon

The average price of gasoline in the U.S. has risen four cents over the past two weeks to $2.25 a gallon for regular grade.

September 25, 2016

3 killed when 2 small planes collide, crash in New York

Officials say three people have been killed following an air collision and crash of two small planes just south of Buffalo, ...

September 25, 2016

Pemex says fire put out on tanker off Mexico's Gulf coast

A fire on a tanker carrying gasoline and diesel off Mexico's Gulf coast was put out Sunday, a day after the blaze began, the ...

September 25, 2016

Residents evacuate Cedar Rapids homes ahead of flooding

Several thousand residents of Cedar Rapids left their homes Sunday as floodwaters began to spill out of the rising Cedar ...

September 25, 2016

Police: 5 shot, 1 dead, after fight at Illinois campus party

One man was killed and four other people were wounded in a pair of shootings early Sunday, including one that happened on the ...

September 25, 2016

Police probing triple homicide search for missing teen

Police investigating a triple homicide inside a Southern California home were searching for a teenage girl who lived there ...

September 24, 2016

12 hurt when bus carrying Chinese teens crashes by Yosemite

The California Highway Patrol said 12 people were injured when a tour bus carrying Chinese teens struck a tree near Yosemite ...