15:10, 22 May 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 ...
18:31, 21 May 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, ...
16:27, 21 May 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 ...
07:52, 18 May 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 ...
10:39, 17 May 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 ...
09:59, 15 May 2019
A civil suit says a Pennsylvania pediatric practice knew that one of its physicians was a threat to molest young patients but covered it up. The suit says Laurel Pediatric Associates in Johnstown knew at least ...
16:48, 14 May 2019
The Pennsylvania judge who presided over Bill Cosby's sex-assault case says he let five other accusers testify at Cosby's retrial because they showed his actions were "so distinctive" they became "a signature."A jury last year ...
13:44, 14 May 2019
Pennsylvania's state attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the company that makes OxyContin of fueling the opioid epidemic, making it at least the 39th state to make such a claim against Purdue Pharma.Attorney General ...
09:14, 12 May 2019
Pennsylvania's primary election will decide nominees or officeholders for several high-profile offices, including mayor of the nation's sixth largest city and one of the state's 18 members of the U.S. House. Pennsylvania's primary election is May ...
13:56, 10 May 2019
Fraternities and sororities will no longer be allowed at Swarthmore College.School President Valerie Smith made the announcement Friday.It comes after the only two fraternities at the private liberal arts college in suburban Philadelphia decided to ...
13:49, 07 May 2019
Nearly a dozen lucky ducks have been rescued by eastern Pennsylvania firefighters after falling through a sewer grate and out of sight of their distressed mother.Emergency workers were called Tuesday morning to a street in ...
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16:49, 22 May 2019
A New York judge refused Wednesday to block congressional subpoenas seeking financial records from two banks that did business with President Donald Trump, making it clear it wasn't a close call. U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos ...
20:13, 21 May 2019
Self-help guru Keith Raniere was a coward during his arrest last year in Mexico on a U.S. sex-trafficking charge and a bully when dealing with a follower who failed to adhere to his twisted code ...
19:43, 21 May 2019
Making, selling, transporting or possessing 3D-printed guns and other undetectable firearms would be banned in New York under legislation approved by the Democrat-controlled state Legislature.The Assembly passed the bill Monday, five days after the legislation ...
19:20, 21 May 2019
On a beautiful, sunny day, wearing either bright yellow, blue, red, black, or white outfits, over 5,000 people sat on a grassy field forming the emblem for the spiritual practice of Falun Dafa on New ...
15:28, 21 May 2019
One out of six Uber and Lyft drivers in the New York City and Seattle areas are driving vehicles with outstanding recalls, according to Consumer Reports.But taking a taxi or limousine isn't necessarily a safer ...
11:51, 19 May 2019
The Senate's top Democrat is calling on the federal government to step in and investigate whether a plan for new subway cars in New York City designed by a Chinese state-owned company could pose a ...
15:24, 18 May 2019
Firefighters have responded to the scene of digital billboard on fire in Times Square.Flames stated shooting out of the LED billboard just after 3 p.m. Saturday.The Fire Department says no injuries have been reported and ...
19:31, 17 May 2019
The U.S. Border Patrol said Friday that it would fly hundreds of migrant families from south Texas to San Diego for processing and that it was considering flights to Detroit, Miami and Buffalo, New York. The ...
16:14, 17 May 2019
With friends like these, Mayor Bill de Blasio doesn't need enemies.New York Attorney General Letitia James expressed exasperation on the "Pod Save America" podcast late Thursday over her fellow Democrat's decision to run for president.She ...
02:53, 17 May 2019
The U.S. Coast Guard says a World War II-era shipwreck off Long Island is leaking oil through two pinpoint leaks. It is conducting an assessment of the remaining oil aboard the British tanker Coimbra, which ...
00:27, 17 May 2019
Ian Kinsler hit a go-ahead, three-run homer for the San Diego Padres, who beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 Thursday night and set the major league record by going 8,020 games without a no-hitter since their ...
21:25, 16 May 2019
The New York Police Department used a photo of Woody Harrelson in its facial recognition program in an attempt to identify a beer thief who looked like the actor, according to a report published Thursday.Georgetown ...
15:16, 16 May 2019
Every year, around May 13, you will find thousands of Falun Dafa practitioners openly meditating in New York City’s Manhattan and neighboring boroughs—very happy to show anyone who wants to learn the five exercises known ...
15:01, 16 May 2019
A Hudson River educational sloop that was the brainchild of the late activist musician Pete Seeger and his friends is marking its 50th anniversary.Some of the Clearwater 's founders and crew members will gather with ...
11:00, 16 May 2019
Denying children a hot meal apparently isn't a popular way for schools to deal with unpaid lunch money.After a flood of angry Facebook comments and phone calls, a Rhode Island district last week abandoned its ...
06:30, 16 May 2019
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday, May 16, that he will seek the Democratic nomination for president, adding his name to an already long list of candidates itching for a chance to ...
14:36, 15 May 2019
The famous winged TWA terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport came out of its decades-long retirement Wednesday with a new life as a luxury hotel."How beautiful is this?" said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ...
11:37, 15 May 2019
Critics have generally not been kind to the new Hudson Yards complex.The new neighborhood, built atop a platform over train yards on the west side of Manhattan, features sleek glass towers with stratospherically expensive residential, ...
10:37, 15 May 2019
Food Network star Sandra Lee says she and her longtime partner, Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, are selling their house in the New York City suburbs.Lee tells The New York Times that the 1950s ...
20:15, 14 May 2019
One of Claude Monet's iconic paintings of haystacks has fetched a record $110.7 million at an auction in New York.Monet's "Meules" sold at Sotheby's sale of Impressionist & Modern Art Tuesday night. The auction house ...
14:30, 23 May 2019
The California Maritime Academy's training ship Golden Bear is resuming a cruise after being damaged in an accident in the eastern Caribbean.The academy says the ship struck a shoreside gantry crane while arriving in Barbados ...
13:19, 23 May 2019
Conga Kids serves predominately Hispanic and African-American 10-11 year olds in historically disadvantaged areas that fall behind in arts curriculum and where students' educational experience is compromised.Students from different Los Angeles area schools compete doing ...
06:44, 23 May 2019
California wants to give more benefits to people living in the country illegally as lawmakers in the state Senate advanced a $214 billion spending proposal Wednesday that would expand health coverage and tax credits for ...
00:24, 23 May 2019
Media law experts pushed back against the San Francisco police chief, who said a freelance journalist allegedly conspired to steal a police report, saying that it is not a crime to disclose a public record.San ...
23:05, 22 May 2019
A Southern California synagogue where a gunman killed a woman and wounded three other people dedicated a new Torah scroll — the holiest object in Judaism — to the slain woman on Wednesday. The handwritten Biblical ...
20:43, 22 May 2019
The Trump administration will not immediately give $1 billion it revoked from California's high-speed rail project to another project, according to a legal agreement reached Wednesday between the two. The Federal Railroad Administration announced last week ...
20:16, 22 May 2019
California lawmakers have narrowly advanced a teacher-backed measure that would give local school districts more power to reject charter schools.The Assembly acted Wednesday as teachers rallied at the state Capitol. They're calling for more money ...
19:20, 22 May 2019
Two beloved, elderly lions have died at zoos in California.The San Francisco Zoo announced Wednesday that a 16-year-old male African lion named Jahari died Monday of old age. African lions live to about 14 in ...
18:21, 22 May 2019
A U.S. grand jury on Wednesday indicted an Army veteran in a plot to plant a bomb at a rally by white supremacists in California.The indictment charged 26-year-old Mark Domingo with providing material support to ...
15:54, 22 May 2019
California lawmakers moved ahead Wednesday with tougher rules that limit parents from choosing whether to vaccinate their schoolchildren as a handful of opponents shouted "We will not comply" inside the Senate.Senators sent the measure to ...
12:20, 22 May 2019
Memorial Day may be the unofficial start of summer, but California is heading toward the holiday with rainy, windy and snowy weather.A winter weather advisory is in effect Wednesday for the mountains of San Bernardino ...
05:39, 22 May 2019
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan for government-funded health care for illegal immigrants is frugal compared to proposals by other Democratic leaders in his state. Newsom, the progressive first-term governor of California and ardent opponent of the ...
00:11, 22 May 2019
At first glance, it looks like a branch of kelp, but then an eye moves among its leafy appendages, and ridges of tiny, translucent fins start to flutter, sending the creature gliding through the water ...
20:10, 21 May 2019
The San Francisco police chief said Tuesday that he respects the news media, but a freelance journalist whose home and office were raided by officers had "crossed the line" by joining a conspiracy to steal ...
18:18, 21 May 2019
California sued Tuesday to block the Trump administration from cancelling nearly $1 billion for the state's high-speed rail project, escalating the state's feud with the federal government. The Federal Railroad Administration announced last week it would ...
13:47, 21 May 2019
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is creating a task force on homelessness as the state grapples with a housing crisis.The Democratic governor made the announcement Tuesday in Oakland, where county officials reported last week that the ...
20:23, 20 May 2019
Lilian Serrano's mother-in-law had lots of stomach problems, but she always blamed food. Doctors at a San Diego-area clinic suspected Genoveva Angeles might have cancer, but they could not say for sure because they did not ...
18:21, 20 May 2019
A man was convicted Monday of killing two police officers and trying to kill six others in an ambush-style attack.After just hours of deliberation, a Southern California jury found John Hernandez Felix guilty of multiple ...
17:39, 20 May 2019
U.S. attorney's office says Dolarian accepts more than $8 million for brokering a deal to sell bombs, rockets and guns from Eastern Europe and South Africa to Abuja
02:01, 19 May 2019
She alights from a black Ferrari convertible, her Christian Louboutin stilettos glinting in the sunlight. The lid of her black lacquer grand piano is propped open in the living room of her plush Beverly Hills ...
16:06, 23 May 2019
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says $1.6 billion in teacher raises are coming in a deal driven by classroom unrest and Republicans who sharply changed course on public education ahead of 2020.The announcement Thursday would make ...
12:10, 23 May 2019
A Houston-area police officer who fatally shot a woman with mental illness is back on the job but not the streets.Baytown police say Officer Juan Delacruz returned to work Monday. He'll be on administrative duty ...
23:09, 22 May 2019
Texas moved a big step closer to arming more teachers and school personnel as a way to help prevent future campus shootings, under a bill sent to Gov. Greg Abbott. The measure approved Wednesday night by ...
17:20, 22 May 2019
Prosecutors who won a conviction against a Phoenix man for providing guns to two Islamic State followers killed in a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in suburban Dallas say an undercover FBI ...
13:32, 22 May 2019
U.S. border agents temporarily closed their primary facility for processing migrants in South Texas one day after the death of a 16-year-old who was diagnosed with the flu at the facility.In a statement released late ...
12:33, 22 May 2019
Saudi Arabia's state owned oil company will begin buying liquid natural gas from a U.S. company under a 20 year agreement.Saudi Aramco said Wednesday it would buy 5 million tons of liquid natural gas per ...
12:34, 21 May 2019
American Airlines says it's cutting the cost of checking oversized sporting gear and musical instruments on flights.American said Tuesday that it eliminated the extra oversize charge for those items and instead will charge regular bag ...
06:44, 21 May 2019
Authorities say police visited the motel room of a Texas man suspected of kidnapping an 8-year-old girl but didn't see the child, who was eventually found safe about two hours later.Michael Webb is charged with ...
21:35, 20 May 2019
The Latest on a round of severe weather forecast for Southern Plains (all times local):9:30 p.m.The tornado threat is decreasing and the flash flooding threat is increasing across Oklahoma as what had been seen as ...
17:44, 20 May 2019
American Airlines is accusing its mechanics and their unions of conducting an illegal work slowdown to gain leverage in contract talks, and the airline is asking a federal judge to stop the activity.The airline says ...
17:37, 20 May 2019
Officials closed schools, evacuated military aircraft and issued high-water warnings Monday with another round of severe weather potentially including tornadoes forecast for the Southern Plains. School districts in Oklahoma City, nearby Norman and elsewhere canceled classes ...
11:53, 20 May 2019
The U.S. government says a 16-year-old Guatemalan died Monday at a Border Patrol station in South Texas, the fifth death of a migrant child apprehended by border agents since December. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said ...
10:38, 20 May 2019
A 23-year-old transgender woman seen on a widely circulated video being beaten in front of a crowd of people was found dead over the weekend in a Dallas shooting, police said. Muhlaysia Booker was found face-down ...
20:50, 19 May 2019
Forecasters say four tornadoes struck parts of West Texas in severe weather that damaged some homes and businesses.The National Weather Service on Sunday reported two tornadoes hit parts of San Angelo a day earlier. Another ...
11:54, 19 May 2019
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement pilot of new DNA testing at the border discovered that approximately one-third of those tested were not biologically linked to their custody kids. ICE conducted the pilot in El Paso and ...
11:34, 19 May 2019
An eight-year-old girl was found safe seven hours later in a hotel room in Texas before police arrested a 51-year-old suspect in her kidnapping. At a hotel in Fort Worth, Texas, at around 2 am Sunday, ...
11:32, 19 May 2019
Testimony has ended in the lawsuit by some Texas residents seeking U.S. government compensation after their land flooded when two federally owned reservoirs overflowed during Hurricane Harvey.The Houston Chronicle reports testimony wrapped up Friday in ...
23:02, 18 May 2019
A South Texas church begins a new chapter of worship on Sunday as it unveils a new sanctuary a year and half after a gunman opened fire and killed more than two dozen congregants in ...
16:29, 18 May 2019
A spate of tornadoes raked across the Southern Plains, leaving damage and causing few injuries, and parts of the region were bracing for more severe thunderstorms and possible flooding. Tornadoes touched down Friday in Kansas and ...
15:54, 18 May 2019
The mother of a 4-year-old Texas girl who hasn't been seen for weeks says she wants to hope her daughter is still alive.Brittany Bowens told KTRK television Friday that she may never know what really ...
23:15, 19 May 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 ...
09:24, 19 May 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 ...
15:46, 18 May 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 ...
14:24, 17 May 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 ...
16:05, 16 May 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 ...
15:06, 16 May 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 ...
09:26, 15 May 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 ...
17:32, 10 May 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 ...
11:05, 09 May 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 ...
16:17, 08 May 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 ...
17:13, 05 May 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 ...
16:47, 05 May 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 ...
20:08, 04 May 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 ...
15:16, 04 May 2019
An explosion and fire at an Illinois silicone factory was believed to have killed three people, authorities said Saturday, as they recovered the body of one victim while suspending the search for the other two. Crews ...
10:19, 04 May 2019
A 90-year-old great-grandfather is about make history by becoming the oldest student to earn a bachelor's degree from Northeastern Illinois University since the school started keeping records in 1962.Bob Dwyer, a great-grandfather, Army veteran and ...
17:57, 03 May 2019
Hundreds of people have converged on a northern Illinois funeral home to pay respects to a 5-year-old boy whose parents have been charged with his murder. The opportunity to file past the body of AJ Freunds' ...
09:18, 02 May 2019
Court records show that video police recovered from an Illinois woman's cellphone showing her bruised 5-year-old son prompted the boy's father to lead investigators to the child's body.JoAnn Cunningham and Andrew Freund Sr. of Crystal ...
11:50, 30 Apr 2019
Chicago's top prosecutor is fighting a push to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate her office's handling of the case against actor Jussie Smollett. Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx says she'd welcome an independent probe ...
12:48, 26 Apr 2019
Illinois' child-welfare agency removed two employees from case work Friday while officials review their interaction with a family whose 5-year-old son was found beaten to death and covered in plastic in a shallow grave. The Department ...
12:25, 26 Apr 2019
Illinois parents are facing murder charges in the beating death of their son, 5-year-old Andrew "AJ" Freund, whose body was found wrapped in plastic and buried in a shallow grave. The family previously had interaction ...
13:45, 21 May 2019
Jonathan Ducoff delivered an RBI single in the bottom of the 10th and also had a three-run homer to lift Texas A&M to an 8-7 victory over Florida Tuesday in the opening game of the ...
00:06, 21 May 2019
The defendant charged with killing 17 people in last year's Florida school shooting is due back in court.A status hearing is scheduled Tuesday for 20-year-old Nikolas Cruz in the February 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman ...
17:56, 20 May 2019
The mother of the unarmed black teen who was shot dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida in 2012 has formally announced her candidacy to run for local office. Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon ...
09:42, 20 May 2019
Plant-based burger maker Impossible Foods is debuting its second product — meatless sausage crumbles — on Little Caesars pizza.Little Caesars will start testing the Impossible Supreme Pizza on Monday at 58 restaurants in Fort Myers, ...
20:37, 19 May 2019
A wooden temple built as a memorial to the 17 victims of a Florida high school mass shooting has been set ablaze in a symbolic gesture of healing.The "Temple of Time" public art installation was ...
16:48, 19 May 2019
President Donald Trump on Sunday denied reports that hundreds of migrants would be flown from the Mexican border to Florida and other areas in the U.S. interior to lessen the workload at crowded Border Patrol ...
16:12, 17 May 2019
Florida's governor plans to fight any federal plans to fly hundreds of immigrants weekly from the Mexican border to South Florida, saying Friday he'll take his case to President Donald Trump. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis made ...
04:00, 17 May 2019
A small airplane made an emergency landing on a Florida highway ramp during rush hour and crashed into a car. News outlets report the plane landed on an Interstate 4 on-ramp just north of Orlando. ...
21:14, 16 May 2019
A small airplane made an emergency landing on a Florida highway ramp during rush hour and crashed into a car.News outlets report the plane landed Thursday around 5:30 p.m. on an Interstate 4 on-ramp in ...
17:56, 16 May 2019
While Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis takes a large entourage of business leaders through Israel, the state's Democratic agriculture commissioner will take her own course through the country.The idea isn't to boost exports of Florida ...
16:48, 16 May 2019
Officials in South Florida say they are frantically preparing for an influx of immigrants being sent by the federal government as the number camped along the U.S. Mexico border grows rapidly. Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen ...
12:41, 16 May 2019
Members of Florida's congressional delegation said Thursday it was unacceptable that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security will not publicly identify the two counties where Russian hackers gained access to voter databases before ...
09:46, 16 May 2019
A Tesla Model S involved in a fatal crash with a semitrailer in Florida March 1 was operating on the company's semi-autonomous Autopilot system, federal investigators have determined.The car drove beneath the trailer, killing the ...
23:09, 15 May 2019
President Donald Trump's latest financial disclosure report is expected to provide a rare glimpse into whether his presidency has helped or hurt his hotels, golf resorts and other parts of his business empire. The report, which ...
15:51, 15 May 2019
The Los Angeles Sparks re-signed free agent Riquna Williams, who was arrested last month after fight with her ex-girlfriend at a Florida home.According to an arrest report, Williams forced her way inside and repeatedly struck ...
12:13, 15 May 2019
The U.S. government is providing long-distance video counseling to teens housed at the country's largest child migrant detention center as officials struggle to accommodate increasing numbers of minors illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Some mental ...
09:44, 15 May 2019
Authorities say a Florida woman ran back into her burning apartment after realizing her two children hadn't made it out. All three died in the fire. Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said during a Wednesday morning ...
12:03, 14 May 2019
Three Democratic lawmakers are asking a government watchdog agency to investigate how a private company tied to former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly secured a no-bid contract to hold migrant children in a ...
08:21, 14 May 2019
The parents of a drunken driver who died in a car crash last year are suing Tiger Woods. They blame the golfer and his girlfriend for allowing their son to drive home from their Florida ...
00:14, 14 May 2019
A fatal shooting outside a crowded South Florida beachfront hotel. Another on a busy Miami Beach street. A third with no serious injuries on a major highway. All involved hip-hop performers or guests of the Rolling ...
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