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September 28, 2016

Friend: Starbucks shooting victim became US citizen in 2004

The man killed in a weekend shooting at a Starbucks coffee shop in Las Vegas was a naturalized U.S. citizen from the country ...

September 28, 2016

Video shows deer trying to jump inside SUV that hit it

A deer that was hit by an SUV in New Jersey wasn't going down without a fight. A police vehicle's in-car camera captured what ...

September 28, 2016

The Latest: Grandparents of school shooter found father dead

The Latest on the shooting at an elementary school in South Carolina that left two students and a teacher wounded (all times ...

September 28, 2016

Authorities: School shooter killed father before rampage

A teenager killed his father at their home Wednesday before going to a nearby elementary school and opening fire with a ...

September 28, 2016

Feds say a lick of the envelope helped them nab bank robber

A man charged in a fatal bank robbery 13 years ago was captured with the help of a tipster and DNA secretly collected from ...

September 28, 2016

APNewsBreak: Freezer where woman found dead had faulty exit

An exit button inside a walk-in freezer in a downtown Atlanta hotel where a worker was found dead failed to work during an ...

September 28, 2016

Man rescued at sea was suspected in grandfather's slaying

A 22-year-old man rescued from a life raft after a fishing trip that left his mother missing and presumed dead had been a ...

September 28, 2016

Tribune Media completes sale of Tribune Tower, other assets

Tribune Media has completed the sale of several real estate assets, including the Tribune Tower in Chicago. The Chicago-based ...

September 28, 2016

Coast Guard suspends search for missing Cuban migrants

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for a group of Cuban migrants reported missing from a makeshift vessel that ...

September 28, 2016

New Orleans tells court it can remove Confederate statues

New Orleans has the right to remove Confederate monuments that are the center of a heated debate, the city's attorneys told ...

September 28, 2016

9 states to vote soon on expanding legal access to marijuana

From California, with its counterculture heritage, to the fishing ports and mill towns of Maine, millions of Americans in ...

September 28, 2016

Attorney who stopped Vermont suspect 1 of 25 Carnegie Heroes

A Vermont prosecutor who disarmed a woman accused of fatally shooting a social worker outside a state office building is one ...

September 27, 2016

Satanic Temple brings after-school club to elementary pupils

The Portland chapter of The Satanic Temple has succeeded in its efforts to bring an after-school program to a Portland ...

September 27, 2016

Navy investigates sailor who didn't salute national anthem

The Navy has investigated the case of a sailor who didn't salute as the national anthem played during a recent morning ...

Al Sharpton, Tiffany Crutcher, Damario Solomon-Simmons

September 27, 2016

Tulsa residents find common ground between police, slain man

Competing rallies over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a white Oklahoma police officer could have left ...

September 27, 2016

Driver uses cardboard Trump head in carpool lane

A cardboard cutout of a head in a passenger seat definitely caught the attention of a Washington State Patrol trooper Tuesday ...

September 27, 2016

Mom arrested after disabled son, 27, dies of malnourishment

A Colorado woman has been arrested in the death of her 27-year-old disabled son, who investigators say was undernourished and ...

September 27, 2016

2 men charged in California killings

An Army private and another young man were charged Tuesday with murder in the slayings of a California couple and family ...

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 ...