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September 21, 2016

Firefighter dies, 1 hurt as 1,000 battle California wildfire

A firefighter among those battling a central California wildfire died Wednesday and another was hurt when the water truck ...

September 21, 2016

Convicted serial killer charged in Wyoming cold case

An imprisoned serial killer already sentenced to death in California has been charged in connection with the killing of a ...

September 21, 2016

Former Uber, Lyft driver charged with assaulting passengers

A former driver for Uber and Lyft has been charged with sexually assaulting several women while on the job, and Southern ...

September 21, 2016

While illuminating, Tulsa videos leave out key details

Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, broadly released dashcam and aerial footage, 911 calls and police radio traffic with unusual ...

September 21, 2016

Zuckerberg, Chan pledge $3B to end disease

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a goal that's even more ambitious than connecting the entire world to the internet: He and ...

September 21, 2016

Fentanyl blamed for spate of overdoses in West Virginia city

Authorities say the heroin that led 27 people to overdose in a five-hour span in a single West Virginia city had been mixed ...

September 21, 2016

For sale: NY mansion of 'Keeping up with the Joneses' fame

A dilapidated mansion in New York believed to have inspired the phrase "Keeping up with the Joneses" is on the auction block.

September 21, 2016

Police declare evacuated Prince Edward Island schools safe

More than 19,000 students on the small Canadian province of Prince Edward Island were evacuated Wednesday after police ...

September 21, 2016

US grants Airbus, Boeing a chance to sell airplanes to Iran

The U.S. government granted aviation giants Airbus and Boeing permission on Wednesday to sell aircraft to Iran following last ...

September 21, 2016

Police: 2 asphyxiated kids among 4 dead in Detroit area

The bodies of two young children and two teenagers were found at a Detroit-area home early Wednesday after a man called 911 ...

September 21, 2016

Horse named Mercy freed from septic tank by rescue workers

Officials say animal rescue workers have freed a horse that fell into a septic tank hole in central Florida. Local media ...

September 21, 2016

Family, neighbors: Tulsa man was changing his life, generous

An unarmed black man shot dead in the middle of a street by a white Oklahoma police officer had run-ins with the law dating ...

September 21, 2016

Protesters confront police after shooting in Charlotte

A black police officer shot an armed black man at a Charlotte, North Carolina, apartment complex Tuesday, authorities said, ...

September 20, 2016

Mexico closes 7 sawmills in monarch butterfly reserve

Mexican environmental authorities say they have closed seven sawmills operating illegally in the forest reserve that serves ...

September 20, 2016

Call from Barnstaple, UK, stumps police in Barnstable, Mass.

Police in Barnstable, Massachusetts, were stumped when a woman from a nearly identically named town in the United Kingdom ...

September 20, 2016

Out of the wild: Police chase bear through Alaska city

A young black bear led police on a two-hour chase through the streets of downtown Anchorage, Alaska — scurrying down ...

September 20, 2016

Racial issues involving Somalis heightened after mall attack

The day after a young Somali-American man stabbed 10 people at a central Minnesota mall, pickup trucks were spotted driving ...

September 20, 2016

Mom, daughter jailed after using racial slurs toward officer

A Northern California mother and daughter were sentenced to 30 days in jail after their conviction for failing to cooperate ...

September 20, 2016

'Monster' charged in killing of still-missing Michigan woman

A man was charged with murder Tuesday in the 2013 disappearance of a gas station clerk in western Michigan, a case that had ...