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December 15, 2018

US Official: 'End days' nearing for Islamic State in Syria

Fighting against the Islamic State group in its last enclave in eastern Syria "is going very well," a U.S. official said ...

December 15, 2018

Florida tale of infidelity and homicide ends with conviction

After a spellbinding five-day trial that featured tales of infidelity and a multimillion dollar insurance payout, a jury on ...

December 15, 2018

Police want direct talk with missing Colorado woman's fiance

An official leading the search for a missing Colorado woman urged her fiance to speak with investigators, saying Friday that ...

December 15, 2018

Cow steals spotlight at student's graduation photo shoot

University of Missouri students were stunned when a towering dairy cow appeared on campus to make a cameo in a graduation ...

December 14, 2018

UNC system rejects $5M plan to house Confederate statue

North Carolina's public university system rejected a proposal Friday to build a $5 million structure to house a toppled ...

December 14, 2018

Montana man pleads guilty to killing 2, putting them in acid

A Montana man pleaded guilty Friday to stabbing two people to death, including a teenage girl, dismembering their bodies and ...

December 14, 2018

Bomb threat empties Sandy Hook school on attack anniversary

A bomb threat forced the evacuation of the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, a day of memorial services and moments of ...

December 14, 2018

Trooper wounded in 2014 ambush shooting has leg amputated

A Pennsylvania state police trooper who was shot in a 2014 ambush has had his right leg amputated below the knee.

December 14, 2018

US industrial production climbed 0.6 percent in November

U.S. industrial production climbed 0.6 percent on surging output at mines and utilities. But manufacturing production was ...

December 14, 2018

Truck crashes through home, misses sleeping woman

A pickup truck has smashed through a home in Massachusetts, barely missing a woman who was asleep on her couch. Police say ...

December 14, 2018

Use of death penalty continues to decline in Texas

While Texas led the nation in the number of inmates executed in 2018, the use of capital punishment in the state continues ...

December 14, 2018

Florida man executed for fatally stabbing woman in 1992

A man convicted of the fatal stabbing and beating death of a woman in Miami-Dade County 26 years ago was executed Thursday ...

December 14, 2018

Serial killer pleads guilty in Texas woman's 1994 death

A 78-year-old prisoner who says he killed about 90 people over nearly four decades as he moved around the country pleaded ...

December 14, 2018

Correction: Los Angeles Housing Development story

In a story Dec. 11 about a large housing development approved in the mountains north of Los Angeles, The Associated Press ...

December 14, 2018

Starbucks to expand delivery in US, China

Starbucks is expanding delivery to more stores in the U.S. and China as it tries to accelerate growth in those two markets.

December 14, 2018

Authorities: Wave of hoax bomb threats made across US

A wave of bomb threats emailed Thursday to hundreds of schools, businesses and government buildings across the U.S.

December 13, 2018

Man rescued in coal mine: Four-day ordeal was 'terrible'

Their faces covered in black soot, three adults safely rescued after several days in an inactive West Virginia coal mine were ...

December 13, 2018

Hung without care? Some say tunnel decor is an eyesore

The Holland Tunnel between New Jersey and New York City may be in for a makeover after critics called the placement of its ...

December 13, 2018

Apple to build new Austin hub, expand in other tech hotbeds

Apple plans to build a $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, that will create at least 5,000 jobs ranging from engineers to ...