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September 29, 2016

Driver of van charged after woman falls off mattress, dies

Authorities in Virginia have charged the driver of a van after a woman fell to her death while riding atop a mattress the two ...

September 29, 2016

Rescue at sea turns new attention on unsolved 2013 killing

It was a crime that stunned a quiet suburb and stumped investigators: an 87-year-old real estate developer killed in his ...

September 29, 2016

Teen's mother 'shocked and saddened' by school shooting

The mother of a teen accused of killing his father and wounding two students and a teacher at a rural South Carolina ...

September 29, 2016

Suspect in killings of 4 women called charmer with dark side

An occasional drifter linked to the slayings of at least four women in little over a decade could always find a place to stay ...

September 28, 2016

Missouri fraternity suspended over reports of racial slurs

The University of Missouri temporarily suspended a fraternity on Wednesday over accusations of racial slurs directed toward ...

September 28, 2016

Cautious approval, skepticism for Penn Station overhaul plan

Horrible. Dirty. A dump. Commuters going through the city's Penn Station have choice words for it, none of them good.

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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 who killed his father at their home Wednesday was stopped by a volunteer firefighter as he opened fire outside 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 ...