New York 04/26/2019
A U.S. Marine killed in a bombing in Afghanistan will be honored by mourners from across the country at his funeral in New York City where he was also a decorated firefighter .The casket of ...
New York 04/25/2019
The much-anticipated sale of tickets for this summer's Woodstock 50 anniversary concerts have been put on hold for now.Tickets for the three-day festival on Aug. 16-18 were supposed to be available on Monday. The festival ...
New York 04/25/2019
A decorated World War II veteran who died this month with no living relatives is being honored by strangers around the world thanks to an unlikely friendship with a young woman determined to give him ...
New York 04/24/2019
The lawyer for a man accused of killing the reputed boss of New York's Gambino crime family says his client is "very optimistic" and "very upbeat."The Staten Island Advance says attorney Robert Gottlieb made the ...
New York 04/24/2019
Prosecutors say a college philosophy teacher accused of taking gas cans and lighters into Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral last week had also booked a hotel near the Vatican but the attorney for the man says ...
New York 04/23/2019
A man convicted of murder in the 2016 death of a New York City runner was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday.Chanel Lewis was convicted earlier this month of killing Karina Vetrano in a ...
New York 04/23/2019
A defense attorney says fake German heiress Anna Sorokin was merely "buying time" and intended to pay back the friends and banks she's accused of swindling.Attorney Todd Spodek told a Manhattan jury in his closing ...
New York 04/23/2019
The giant banner behind him revealed not only a new nickname, but a new reality in boxing for Gennady Golovkin."The return of the people's champion," it read, touting Golovkin's June 8 match at Madison Square ...
New York 04/21/2019
The fancy hats and finery were out and on display for New York City's annual Easter extravaganza.Participants in the annual Easter Parade made their way along Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on Sunday in a processional of ...
New York 04/20/2019
New York state lawmakers will hold hearings on a proposal to repeal an 80-year-old law that prevents farmworkers in the state from unionizing.The proposal has long languished in Albany, but supporters are more hopeful now ...
New York 04/20/2019
An heiress pleaded guilty on Friday in a sensational case accusing a cult-like upstate New York group of creating a secret harem of sex slaves for the group's self-anointed spiritual leader. Clare Bronfman admitted in her ...
New York 04/19/2019
When Jimmy Page was a young student, he had already developed such an inseparable relationship with his guitar that school officials would often confiscate it."It would be given back at the end of the day. ...
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U.S. 06/23/2019
The U.S. Geological Survey said a magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit near the Pacific coast of Northern California. The agency says the earthquake struck at 8:53 p.m. at a spot 17.3 miles (27.9 kilometers) southwest of Scotia, ...
U.S. 06/23/2019
A floating device designed to catch plastic waste has been redeployed in second attempt to clean up a huge island of trash swirling in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. Boyan Slat, creator of The ...
U.S. 06/21/2019
A father stopped his daughter's attempted kidnapping after seeing a random man taking her from their home in Southern California. Authorities are searching for a man suspected of breaking into a Vista home and attempting to ...
U.S. 06/20/2019
New Trump administration rules imposing additional hurdles for women seeking abortions can take effect while the government appeals decisions that blocked them, a federal appeals court said Thursday, June 20. The rules ban taxpayer-funded clinics from ...
U.S. 06/19/2019
Authorities are charging leaders of a prison gang with running a crime ring from behind bars.It comes two weeks after authorities accused suspected leaders of a different gang with organizing drug trafficking and murders from ...
U.S. 06/19/2019
A Virginia man believed missing on California's Mount Whitney is an accomplished hiker and marathon runner who has been determined to summit the peak since a failed attempt last year, his family said Tuesday.Search and ...
U.S. 06/18/2019
A Southern California police force is welcoming a robot to the department.Huntington Park police says "HP RoboCop" will provide 360-degree high-definition video footage. It'll become an official member of the force at a Tuesday evening ...
U.S. 06/18/2019
Google is pouring $1 billion into easing the high-priced housing headaches that it and its Silicon Valley peers helped give the San Francisco Bay Area.The pledge announced Tuesday by Google CEO Sundar Pichai consists of ...
U.S. 06/18/2019
The off-duty officer who shot and killed a man inside a Southern California Costco last week was attacked without warning as he held his toddler son, the policeman's attorney said Monday.Attorney David Winslow said his ...
U.S. 06/18/2019
The California Assembly has voted to raise fees on phones to pay for an upgrade of the state's 911 system.It's estimated to total about 34 cents on each bill and includes landlines and cellphones.Republican Assemblyman ...
U.S. 06/17/2019
Oregon is on the precipice of becoming the second state after California to adopt a cap-and-trade program, a market-based approach to lowering the greenhouse gas emissions behind global warming.Supporters call it the United States' most ...
U.S. 06/16/2019
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of homicide after they allegedly led Modesto police on a stolen car chase amid gunfire that ended when they crashed into a taco truck's seating area and killed ...
U.S. 06/16/2019
The Los Angeles Police Department is gathering evidence and video footage in an administrative investigation into an off-duty officer who shot and killed a man authorities say attacked him inside a Southern California Costco Wholesale ...
U.S. 06/16/2019
The Latest on a shooting inside a Southern California Costco store (all times local): 8 p.m. The Corona Police Department says a fatal shooting inside a Costco Wholesale warehouse store Friday night took place after a 32-year-old ...
U.S. 06/14/2019
A posh Northern California hotel was ordered to pay $1.6 million in penalties Thursday for failing to provide public access to its nearby beaches. All beaches in California are open to the public, with rare exceptions, ...
U.S. 06/13/2019
A Nevada prison inmate who was sentenced in 2010 to die could get another chance to argue he's not guilty, after a judge in Las Vegas overturned his conviction and granted him a new trial.However, ...
U.S. 06/13/2019
The California Legislature has passed a $214.8 billion budget, with the package next set to land on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk. The budget includes money to give taxpayer-funded health insurance to some low-income illegal immigrants. It ...
U.S. 06/13/2019
Santa Anita has put together a five-member team to review horses' medical, training and racing history for the final six racing days at the Southern California track where 29 horses have died since December.The Arcadia ...
U.S. 06/13/2019
The Latest on the arrest of a Utah man accused of shooting an off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy and killing another man (all times local): 6:10 p.m. A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who was shot ...
U.S. 06/13/2019
A big-rig truck driver has been arrested after authorities spotted a phony license plate on his rig.How could they tell?Well, the Ventura County Sheriff's Department says the 1960s-style yellow-on-black plate had wobbly letters and numbers. ...
U.S. 06/21/2019
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Friday that he will send another 1,000 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border while accusing Congress of failing to take action on the growing humanitarian crisis. The governor ...
U.S. 06/20/2019
Potent thunderstorms have been blamed for one death and left more than 200,000 people without power across the southern United States — and fierce winds were expected to wallop parts of several states as new ...
U.S. 06/19/2019
Special prosecutors who've threatened to quit the criminal case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have lost another battle over their pay, throwing the case into new uncertainty.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday ...
U.S. 06/16/2019
Undaunted by a dangerous journey over thousands of miles, people fleeing economic hardship and human rights abuses in African countries are coming to the U.S.-Mexico border in unprecedented numbers, surprising Border Patrol agents more accustomed ...
U.S. 06/16/2019
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has approved a spending bill that includes a $1 million public safety campaign for firearm storage. The Republican signed a $250 billion two-year budget Saturday without any line-item vetoes. It includes money ...
U.S. 06/15/2019
A federal judge on Friday ordered unions that represent American Airlines mechanics not to interfere in the airline's operations.The judge's order came after American asked for a temporary restraining order to end what it considers ...
U.S. 06/13/2019
Austin-Bergstrom International Airport officials are considering opening the airport's terminals to non-ticketed visitors who want to access the facility's food, beverage and retail offerings.The Airport Advisory Commission on Tuesday mulled over the idea of welcoming ...
U.S. 06/10/2019
Texas restaurants may soon welcome dogs in outdoor dining areas under a new state law that allows patrons to bring their furry companions at a business' discretion.Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law last ...
U.S. 06/10/2019
American Airlines is pushing back the planned return of its Boeing 737 Max jets until early September, two weeks longer than the airline had previously expected.American over the weekend removed its 24 Max jets from ...
U.S. 06/10/2019
Hundreds of people marched to honor the memory of a 4-year-old Houston girl who was missing for several weeks before her remains were found last month in Arkansas.Family members of Maleah Davis as well as ...
U.S. 06/09/2019
Alexander Rossi will start the second half of the IndyCar season chasing points leader Josef Newgarden, possibly much the same way he did in falling short in the final laps of Newgarden's first victory in ...
U.S. 06/08/2019
Police who surrounded a house in eastern Texas because they thought they had a burglary in progress found a deer instead. The homeowner called Lufkin police early Thursday after she heard glass breaking. The woman hid ...
U.S. 06/07/2019
A woman accused of orchestrating the 2015 Dallas slaying of a woman dating her ex-boyfriend has been found guilty.A jury Friday found 36-year-old Brenda Delgado guilty of capital murder. She received an automatic sentence of ...
U.S. 06/07/2019
Police say a Dallas-area driver has been charged with being drunk and causing a fiery wreck that claimed three lives.Arlington City Jail records show 29-year-old Jose Castro of Farmers Branch was being held without bond ...
U.S. 06/07/2019
Beto O'Rourke stumbled with women from the start, featuring his wife sitting silently in his presidential campaign launch video and joking repeatedly about being a part-time parent.But with his campaign at risk of stalling, O'Rourke ...
U.S. 06/07/2019
Simon Pagenaud still has more than 2,000 messages left from his Indianapolis 500 victory, and he plans to respond to every one of them.Maybe next week, when the IndyCar Series takes a break."I'm going to ...
U.S. 06/06/2019
The federal government is opening a new mass facility to hold migrant children in Texas and considering detaining hundreds more youths on three military bases around the country, adding a total of 3,000 new beds ...
U.S. 06/06/2019
Health officials in Fiji said they don't yet have an answer on why a Texas couple died while vacationing on the island but that influenza has been ruled out as a potential cause.Fiji's Ministry of ...
U.S. 06/06/2019
An attorney for six men arrested in a 2015 shootout between rival biker gangs in Waco that left nine people dead and at least 20 injured is seeking the return of items seized from the ...
U.S. 06/05/2019
Six migrants who had crossed the U.S. border from Mexico illegally were killed and five critically injured when a sport utility vehicle that earlier fled Texas police crashed into a drainage ditch, authorities said Wednesday. The ...
U.S. 06/21/2019
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the city's police department will not participate in an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement roundup of migrant families who have been ordered out the country. ICE agents have been directed by ...
U.S. 06/21/2019
A judge decided to appoint a special prosecutor Friday to investigate the decision by Cook County prosecutors to dismiss all charges against actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of lying to the police by claiming ...
U.S. 06/14/2019
An infant boy who was cut from a Chicago woman's womb with a butcher knife died Friday at a hospital where he had been in grave condition since the April attack that killed his mother, ...
U.S. 06/04/2019
One of Chicago's sunniest and warmest weekends of the year was also the most violent as police said Monday, June 3, that the weekend ended with eight people killed by gunfire and 44 more suffering ...
U.S. 06/02/2019
A former University of Illinois graduate student is set to stand trial in the 2017 disappearance and suspected killing of a visiting scholar from China — a case in which the death penalty is possible ...
U.S. 05/25/2019
Hundreds of mourners, some carrying flowers and balloons, have gathered for the funeral of a Chicago woman who authorities say was strangled and her baby cut from her womb.Nineteen-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez was remembered as a ...
U.S. 05/24/2019
A 76-year-old man has been convicted in the 1992 strangulation death of an Illinois teenager.Robert Serritella, of Park Ridge, was found guilty Thursday on two counts of first degree murder in the killing of 15-year-old ...
U.S. 05/20/2019
Lori Lightfoot will have a powerful ally after she's sworn in Monday as Chicago mayor in seeking to fulfill a campaign promise to overhaul the Police Department in the nation's third-largest city: a judge with ...
U.S. 05/19/2019
A wildlife biologist has taken prairie chickens from Kansas, which has a more robust population, and released them in Illinois in an effort to boost the population of the endangered birds.The birds once numbered in ...
U.S. 05/18/2019
Police and Illinois' child welfare agency say staff at a Chicago-area hospital didn't alert them after determining that a bloodied woman who arrived with a gravely ill newborn had not just given birth to the ...
U.S. 05/17/2019
A pregnant Chicago teen who was killed and whose baby was cut from her womb was strangled while being shown a photo album of the late son and brother of her attackers, a prosecutor said ...
U.S. 05/16/2019
The grisly act is rare, yet it's common enough to have a name: fetal abduction. The latest case out of Chicago — in which 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez was strangled and her baby cut from her womb ...
U.S. 05/16/2019
A pregnant woman who had gone to a Chicago home in response to a Facebook offer of free baby clothes was strangled and her baby cut from her womb, police and family members said. The newborn ...
U.S. 05/15/2019
Authorities in Peoria say a 4-year-old boy died when gunfire intended for someone else struck him three times in the back and arm.Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said Tuesday that Jeremiah L. Ward died from ...
U.S. 05/10/2019
More than 100 people gathered Friday along a chain-link fence outside a badly damaged Illinois silicone factory to remember four men who died in an explosion at the facility. The mourners at AB Specialty Silicones factory ...
U.S. 05/09/2019
The FBI has added a man to its Ten Most Wanted list who's accused of killing his wife just hours after their 2012 wedding.The FBI says 37-year-old Arnoldo Jimenez of Chicago may have fled to ...
U.S. 05/08/2019
Rain swamping the nation's midsection forced people from their homes in Kansas, stranded dozens of Texas children at school overnight and strained levees along the surging Mississippi River in Illinois, Missouri and elsewhere Wednesday prompting ...
U.S. 05/05/2019
Search and rescue personnel found the body of another worker Sunday in the rubble of a northern Illinois silicone plant that exploded and burst into flames two days ago, bringing the death toll to three ...
U.S. 05/05/2019
The Latest on the explosion and fire at an Illinois silicone plant (all times local):4:30 p.m.Search and rescue personnel have located and are recovering the body of a third employee killed in the explosion and ...
U.S. 05/05/2019
The Latest on an explosion at and Illinois (all times local):8 p.m.A second person has died as a result of injuries suffered from an explosion at an Illinois factory.Initially, one body was found at the ...
U.S. 06/19/2019
An overnight fire near the Alabama-Florida state line has destroyed multiple condominiums near the beach at Perdido Key and injured a resident and a firefighter.Escambia County officials say the blaze broke out early Wednesday at ...
Campaign 2020 06/18/2019
The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local): 2 p.m. A boisterous crowd of thousands of supporters has gathered in front of the Amway Center arena in Orlando, Florida, hours before President Donald Trump will hold ...
Campaign 2020 06/18/2019
President Donald Trump envisions his campaign kickoff rally in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday night, “wild” like a rock concert. The president said his re-election launch will be a political spectacle, sending the tweet: "The Fake News doesn’t ...
U.S. 06/18/2019
A Florida police officer has been found guilty of culpable negligence for shooting at a severely autistic man and wounding the man's caretaker.News outlets report North Miami police Officer Jonathan Aledda was found not guilty ...
U.S. 06/17/2019
President Donald Trump declared "people from California, & all over the land, are demanding that Sanctuary Cities be GONE,” in a tweet early Sunday morning of June 16. The president said that "more and more states ...
U.S. 06/15/2019
Charlie 5 had no plans to move that hot June morning. The 9-foot-long Burmese python was comfortably nestled in a muddy hollow, well-hidden in a thicket of saw grass and alligator flag in Big Cypress ...
U.S. 06/14/2019
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial measure on Friday that blocks localities from becoming sanctuary cities and mandates they cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. “I am proud to sign the bill presented to me by the Florida Legislature to uphold ...
U.S. 06/13/2019
President Donald Trump on Wednesday, June 12, said that there have already been 74,000 requests to attend his campaign kickoff event in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday, June 18. President Trump tweeted: "Wow! Just got word that ...
U.S. 06/12/2019
Two U.S. senators asked the FBI on Wednesday to explain what it has done to investigate the suspected hack by Russian intelligence of a Florida-based voting software company before the 2016 election.In a letter sent ...
U.S. 06/09/2019
The new voter protection director for Florida Democrats told party activists on Saturday that they should assume there will be a recount during next year's presidential election. "We are going to be prepared," Brandon Peters told ...
U.S. 06/08/2019
Doug Emhoff was on the stage seconds after an activist rushed his wife, Kamala Harris, and snatched the microphone from her hands. Shortly after he helped remove the activist, Emhoff tweeted that he and Harris ...
U.S. 06/08/2019
Florida Democrats need to register a half million more voters before the 2020 presidential election if they hope for the Sunshine State's 29 electoral votes go to their candidate, an elections expert told party leaders ...
U.S. 06/06/2019
When philanthropist Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. pledged a record $26.5 million to the University of Alabama in September, the institution showered him with praise, lauding his generosity, describing him as a "special person" and renaming ...
U.S. 06/06/2019
A judge reduced bail on Thursday for a former Florida deputy charged with 11 criminal counts after failing to confront the gunman in the Parkland school massacre. Scot Peterson was expected to be released later ...
U.S. 06/05/2019
The Florida deputy who knew a gunman was loose at the Parkland high school but refused to go inside to confront the assailant was arrested Tuesday on 11 criminal charges related to his inaction during ...
U.S. 06/04/2019
Police say a 50-year-old Florida man and his 30-year-old mistress hired someone to kill his wife and make it look like a bungled burglary.Jacksonville Sheriff's Lt. Craig Waldrup told news outlets that Jerry "Tommy" Burns ...
U.S. 06/04/2019
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says a lawsuit filed by an open government watchdog group claiming a meeting with the state's Cabinet he held in Israel is frivolous.DeSantis and Florida's three independently elected Cabinet members met ...
U.S. 05/31/2019
President Donald Trump says he will be announcing his reelection campaign next month in Orlando, Florida. Trump shared Friday that he will hold a June 18 rally and will be joined by first lady Melania Trump, ...
U.S. 05/31/2019
Authorities say an 11-foot (3.4-meter) alligator busted through a kitchen window and broke several bottles of red wine in a Florida home before it was captured. Police tweeted that the gator was removed from Mary Wischhusen's ...
U.S. 05/31/2019
No Oklahoma State player besides Samantha Show got a hit or threw a pitch Thursday.They didn't have to.Show hit two solo homers and pitched a complete game to help Oklahoma State beat Florida 2-1 in ...
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Former Pennsylvania congressman Joe Sestak has become the latest Democrat to enter the presidential race. The retired Navy admiral who calls himself "Admiral Joe" on his campaign website joins a crowded Democratic field seeking the nomination ...
U.S. 06/20/2019
The man in custody in the Dominican Republic on suspicion of shooting former baseball star David Ortiz was indicted Thursday on drugs and weapons charges unrelated to the shooting. Rolfi Ferreira-Cruz was indicted in New Jersey ...
U.S. 06/12/2019
Republican lawmakers aren't committing to the money sought by Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf to back up his demand that counties replace their voting machines by 2020's presidential elections.Republicans who control the Legislature say a ...
U.S. 06/06/2019
The top Democrat in the Pennsylvania Senate said Thursday that an investigation of sexual misconduct claims against Sen. Daylin Leach found a "lengthy pattern of troubling behavior" and that he should resign.But Leach, a fellow ...
U.S. 06/06/2019
New Jersey regulators have denied key permits for a hotly contested pipeline project that would carry natural gas from Pennsylvania to New York, but they're allowing an Oklahoma company to try again.The state Department of ...
U.S. 05/30/2019
Tornadoes swept through parts of northeastern Texas Wednesday, May 29, and there was also a confirmed tornado in Eastern Pennsylvania damaging homes and buildings. On the northern shore of Cedar Creek Reservoir, about 50 miles southwest ...
U.S. 05/30/2019
Pennsylvania faces a third day of severe weather while people clean up from storms that downed trees, power lines and caused flooding.Thursday's forecast calls for storms that could pack damaging wind and hail. The risk ...
U.S. 05/30/2019
A barn fire in the heart of Pennsylvania's Amish country sent up a plume of smoke visible for two miles and required a hazardous materials team to respond for runoff into a nearby stream.LNP newspaper ...
U.S. 05/29/2019
When Brett Miller first saw a live organ accompany a silent film — the 1925 version of Phantom of the Opera at the University of Pennsylvania's Irvine Auditorium — he was stunned."Oh, I want to ...
U.S. 05/29/2019
Storm-driven floodwaters inundated parts of western Pennsylvania, sending torrents down the streets of one town and requiring several people to be helped by swiftwater rescue specialists.Zelienople (ZEE-lee-uh-no-pul) officials told drivers to avoid several streets because ...
U.S. 05/29/2019
The National Weather Service says a tornado has been confirmed in eastern Pennsylvania where damage to some homes occurred but there were no immediate reports of injuries.Meteorologist Jonathan O'Brien says a damage assessment team will ...
U.S. 05/27/2019
Pennsylvania state lawmakers' newly filed ethics forms show they accepted more than $83,000 in free trips last year and collected a variety of gifts, booze and free meals.That's just the value that lawmakers reported, and ...
U.S. 05/25/2019
A faith that is shaken, but not lost. Deep disappointment, but hope for the future. An overwhelming feeling that there is a lesson to be learned and a stronger church if it is taken to ...
U.S. 05/24/2019
Pennsylvania's treasury department is accusing about a dozen large financial firms of working together to illegally inflate the price of bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over seven years.A federal court filing by ...
U.S. 05/22/2019
Gov. Tom Wolf says preliminary statistics are pointing to a decrease in overdose deaths in Pennsylvania last year, as his administration suggests the opioid crisis might be starting to wane in some parts of the ...
U.S. 05/22/2019
Republican Fred Keller, a conservative state lawmaker, won the special election for Congress on Tuesday in a heavily Republican district that sprawls across areas of central and northern Pennsylvania that are a stronghold for President ...
U.S. 05/21/2019
The Latest on a second fatal Alaska floatplane crash in a week (all times local):3:20 p.m.The police chief of Metlakatla has identified the pilot of Monday's deadly commuter plane crash in that Alaska community.This Monday, ...
U.S. 05/21/2019
One of Pennsylvania's most beloved and scenic hiking trails will remain closed to the public unless lawmakers pass Gov. Tom Wolf's $4.5 billion infrastructure plan, officials said Tuesday.The Democratic governor hiked to the base of ...
U.S. 05/18/2019
Ask Vivian Loh a simple question, like her age, and you may not get a simple answer."4,687 days," the Squirrel Hill resident answers softly and without hesitation, sitting in an office at the Winchester Thurston ...
U.S. 05/17/2019
Authorities say one person has been killed and another is missing after an explosion destroyed a home in northeastern Pennsylvania. Officials say emergency responders found 20-year-old Nathan Hedgepeth injured but alive just before 2 a.m. Friday ...
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