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February 09, 2019

House call turns into horse call for police in Minnesota

Authorities say a suburban Minneapolis resident reported a strange intruder in her basement. It was a horse. Inver Grove ...

February 09, 2019

NY woman resorts to baseball bat after patty not available

A woman who couldn't get a beef patty at a favorite New York eatery used a baseball bat in protest. On Saturday, police ...

February 09, 2019

US-backed fighters launch final push to defeat IS in Syria

U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian forces said Saturday they have launched a final push to defeat the Islamic State group in ...

February 09, 2019

The Latest: Kurds launch final push to defeat IS in Syria

The Latest on the Syria conflict (all times local): 6 p.m. U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian forces say they have begun the ...

February 09, 2019

Police: Man revived after overdose steals, crashes cruiser

Police in Ohio's capital city say a man stole a police cruiser just minutes after officers revived him from an overdose.

February 09, 2019

Pilot in deadly California house crash had been disciplined

The pilot whose plane broke apart and crashed into a Southern California home, killing five people, was disciplined for ...

February 09, 2019

Arizona wants care unit where patient was raped to stay open

The embattled operators of an Arizona long-term care facility agreed Friday to be regulated by the state, effectively nixing ...

February 08, 2019

Baby shot, critically wounded in parked car in Chicago

A 1-year-old boy who was shot in the head as he sat in the back seat of his grandmother's SUV on Thursday evening on ...

February 08, 2019

Woman says she aided man suspected of killing of his fiance

A woman said Friday that she helped thwart an investigation into the disappearance of a Colorado woman who authorities ...

February 08, 2019

Family healing after 1 son slain, other wounded at Parkland

Last February, Mitch and Annika Dworet became part of a small circle no parent wants to join. Sons Nick and Alex were in ...

February 08, 2019

Sex abuse case not only time Kansas judge has been lenient

A Kansas judge who blamed two teenage girls for a sexual encounter with a 67-year-old man spent nearly a decade on the bench ...

February 08, 2019

Texas grandma uses child's scooter to fight off masked men

Police say a Texas woman used her granddaughter's scooter to defend herself against a pair of machete-wielding men wearing ...

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February 08, 2019

Hotel that launched Trump to Manhattan fame to be torn down

The building that helped Donald Trump make a name for himself in his first big deal in Manhattan is being sold to developers ...

February 08, 2019

Descendants from last US slave ship gathering in Alabama

The years have been hard on Africatown USA. Established by the last boatload of Africans abducted into slavery and shipped ...

February 08, 2019

US officials to investigate San Francisco gas explosion

The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate a natural gas explosion in San Francisco that sent flames into the ...

February 08, 2019

Alabama executes Muslim inmate who wanted imam present

A Muslim inmate who filed a legal challenge because Alabama wouldn't let his Islamic spiritual adviser be present in the ...

February 08, 2019

Man charged with firing on school bus, wounding driver

Prosecutors say a 31-year-old security guard fired five shots into the windshield of a school bus that had scraped his car ...

February 08, 2019

Facility where incapacitated woman gave birth to shut down

A long-term care facility in Arizona where an incapacitated woman was raped and later gave birth announced Thursday that it ...

February 08, 2019

Bloody handprint among evidence in Chinese scholar's case

Prosecutors are building a case, partly on a bloody handprint and the responses of a cadaver-sniffing dog, that a former ...