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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Canadian officials fear a massive wildfire could double in size by the end of Saturday as they continue to evacuate residents…

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — A suspect in three fatal shootings in the Washington, D.C., area was arrested Friday, police said. Police in the Maryland suburbs…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot has climbed to $415 million, making Saturday night’s prize the largest since a record $1.6 billion payout…

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — A massive wildfire raging in the Canadian province of Alberta has grown to 210,035 acres in size and officials would…

GETTYSBURG (AP) – Gettysburg National Military Park is taking ownership of some 3,000 items from an American Civil War museum in Philadelphia that’s been closed…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Researchers believe the ship that legendary explorer Captain James Cook used to sail around the world is still submerged somewhere in…

SEATTLE (AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in for the first time Monday on a $15-an-hour minimum wage, signaling it does not plan to…

  HAVANA (TNS) — As passengers cheered, Carnival Corp.’s Fathom Adonia arrived at Havana harbor on Monday morning, officially re-establishing the U.S. cruise business in…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Motorists will get to go faster, up to 70 mph, on nearly 1,000 miles of Pennsylvania highway once transportation crews complete…

GREENSBURG (AP) – Natural gas pipelines were being drained Saturday as authorities try to determine the cause of an explosion in western Pennsylvania that destroyed…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A CSX freight train derailed in Washington, D.C., on Sunday morning, sending several cars off the tracks and spilling hazardous material from…

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A natural gas pipeline exploded in a towering, roaring fireball Friday, destroying a home several hundred yards away, damaging at least…

NEW CASTLE (AP) – The state Department of Environmental Protection is investigation whether fracking contributed to two small earthquakes near a western Pennsylvania drilling operation….

PITTSBURGH (AP) – About 100 yards from the finish line of last year’s Pittsburgh Marathon, where a body pushed to its physical limit prepares for…

  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Thunderstorms bearing hail as big as grapefruit and winds approaching hurricane strength lashed portions of the Great Plains on Tuesday,…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton came away big winners in Pennsylvania’spresidential primaries Tuesday, as Democrats backed their party establishment’s choice for…

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — With flowers, candles and tears, Ukraine on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the…

  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Marijuana growing operations were discovered at some of the crime scenes where officials said eight family members were killed in…

ERIE (AP) – An Ohio kidnapping suspect has been charged with criminal homicide following the death of a woman critically injured in a home invasion…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — A solar-powered airplane landed in California on Saturday, completing a risky, three-day flight across the Pacific Ocean as part of…

PIKETON, Ohio (AP) – Eight members of a family, including a mother sleeping in a bed with her 4-day-old baby next to her, were fatally…

CONROE, Texas (AP) — Animal control officers have captured an apparently domesticated tiger that was spotted roaming a residential neighborhood in a South Texas city….

PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — Eight people were found dead Friday at four crime scenes in rural Ohio, and at least most of them were shot…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 170 countries are lining up to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change Friday as the landmark deal takes…

PALMETTO, Fla. (AP) – A retired police dog in Florida is recovering after being bitten by an alligator that so far is eluding capture. Chris…

TEMPERANCE, Mich. (AP) – A Michigan teen who has made annual treks carrying his younger brother on his back to raise awareness about cerebral palsy…

  The Associated Press Harriet Tubman will replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, a Treasury Department official said Wednesday. The official did not give…

  MONTECRISTI, Ecuador (AP) — A fresh tremor rattled Ecuador before dawn Wednesday, a magnitude-6.1 magnitude jolt that set babies crying and adults pouring into…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Earth’s record monthly heat streak has hit 11 months in a row – a record in itself. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

HOUSTON (TNS) — A storm that hit Houston this week caused the city’s worst flooding in 15 years and left five people dead, officials said. More…

TOWANDA, Pa. (AP) — Jami Patel spends long hours behind the front desk of a nearly empty motel, desperate for someone, anyone, to check in….

MILFORD, Pa. (AP) — A judge postponed a hearing Tuesday for a man charged with ambushing two troopers outside a Pennsylvania State Police barracks after…

NEW YORK (AP) – Amazon is taking on Netflix and Hulu with its own stand-alone video streaming service, just weeks before Netflix raises prices for…

MANTA, Ecuador (AP) — Rescuers in Ecuador pulled three people out alive after being trapped for more than 32 hours in the rubble of a…

HARRISBURG (AP) – Pennsylvania is becoming the 24th state to legalize a comprehensive and public medical marijuana program after Gov. Tom Wolf signs legislation Sunday….

PEDERNALES, Ecuador (AP) — The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast, sending the Andean nation…

MASHIKI, Japan (AP) — Army troops and other rescuers rushed Saturday to try to reach scores of trapped residents after a pair of strong earthquakes…

By RILEY YATES and PAMELA LEHMAN The (Allentown) Morning Call ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Travis Mohr found sobriety after heroin came close to taking his life. Every…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says a record 155 countries will sign the landmark agreement to tackle climate change at a ceremony at…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A 17-year-old was raped by a man with whom she had been drinking and her 18-year-old female friend live-streamed the attack…

HARRISBURG (AP) – Pennsylvania is set to become the latest state to legalize medical marijuana as the Legislature sent a bill to the governor on…

WARREN, Ohio (AP) — The remains of a Pennsylvania-born soldier declared missing during the Korean War are being returned to northeast Ohio 65 years later,…

HARRISBURG (AP) – For the second time in less than a year, the Pennsylvania Senate passed medical marijuana legislation Tuesday, and backers hope the House…

DENVER (AP) — Garden-care giant Ortho said Tuesday that it will stop using a class of chemicals widely believed to harm bees as concerns rise…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former U.S. poet laureate, winners of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, and best-selling authors including John Grisham are…

NEW DELHI (AP) – The world’s count of wild tigers roaming forests from Russia to Vietnam has gone up for the first time in more…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The cost of mailing a letter is going down. Starting today, the price of a first-class stamp drops two cents, to 47 cents….

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – SpaceX resumed station deliveries for NASA on Friday, and in a double triumph, successfully landed its booster rocket on an…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The fatal shooting of two people at an Air Force base in Texas appears to be a murder-suicide, authorities said Friday….