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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Leslie Van Houten, the youngest member of the Manson “family” to take part in a series of gruesome California murders in…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A new Pennsylvania law is giving drivers the green light to run red lights — under certain circumstances. The bill signed…

MUNICH (AP) — A manhunt was underway Friday for a shooter or shooters who opened fire at a shopping mall in Munich, killing six people…

HUGO, Colo. (AP) — Bottled water was distributed to residents of the small Colorado town of Hugo on Friday as officials investigate the possibility that…

HARRISBURG (AP) – The Pennsylvania Game Commission says its workers have counted fewer bald eagle nests in the state for the first time in decades….

PITTSBURGH (AP) – Fed up with the rising number of opiate overdoses in Western Pennsylvania, an Allegheny County judge is making convicted drug dealers buy…

From staff reports The Department of Environmental Protection released an updated version of a website application that will allow curious parties to find up-to-date information…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Earth’s persistent record 2016 heat is now dancing near levels that a world agreement is trying to avoid, federal scientists said. The…

ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish government on Tuesday escalated its wide-ranging crackdown against people it claims have ties to plotters of last week’s attempted coup,…

LONDON (AP) — International Olympic officials will “explore the legal options’” for a potential total ban on Russia from the games in Rio de Janeiro,…

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama awarded the nation’s highest military honor to a Vietnam War veteran on Monday, stressing that the story of retired…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Pioneering astronaut John Glenn is being showered with birthday recognition by people on social media, NASA and residents in his home…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A judge has acquitted a Baltimore police officer on all charges in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The man who killed two police officers and a sheriff’s deputy in Baton Rouge was a former Marine sergeant who…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Authorities say a suspect opened fire on a Milwaukee police officer sitting in his squad car and seriously wounded him before fleeing…

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say attackers have shot and wounded 14 people, two critically, in an attack on a crowd outside a house party…

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police say five people have been shot outside of a nightclub in Tennessee, about 50 miles northwest of Nashville. Police were…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Philadelphia has a long history as a center of politics, going back to the 18th century when the Founding Fathers met here…

NICE, France (AP) — The Latest on a truck that drove into the crowd in Nice (all times local): 1:20 a.m. The president of the…

NICE, France (AP) — A truck drove on to the sidewalk and plowed through a crowd of Bastille Day revelers who’d gathered to watch fireworks…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Congress passed an aviation bill Wednesday that attempts to close gaps in airport security and shorten screening lines, but leaves thornier issues…

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) – With hugs and handshakes, Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton for president on Tuesday and emphatically told his supporters their “political revolution”…

LITCHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — Storms spawned tornadoes, torrential rain and powerful winds that damaged homes, deposited a snowplow in a tree and flooded highways in…

HARRISBURG (AP) – The Pennsylvania Senate signaled Monday that it will give swift election-year consideration to new restrictions on elective abortions, amid a veto threat…

NEW YORK (AP) – It’s a new record for stocks, but it sure doesn’t feel like it. The biggest gainers in the past year are…

MADRID (AP) – President Barack Obama on Sunday urged respect and restraint from Americans angered by the killing of black men by police, saying anything…

DALLAS (AP) — The gunman who killed five police officers at a protest march had practiced military-style drills in his yard and trained at a…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s capital kept its cool entering a third straight day of protests over the killing of a black man at…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has ordered all Commonwealth flags to fly half-staff, after five police officers were fatally shot during what…

  DALLAS (AP) — Dallas was in shock and beset by uncertainty early Friday after gunmen shot and killed five police officers and wounded seven…

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — A police officer fatally shot a man in a car, and a woman in the vehicle apparently live-streamed the aftermath…

NEW YORK (AP) – More than 500,000 hoverboards are being recalled after some of the motorized scooters overheated, burned riders and damaged property. There have…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation Wednesday into the video-recorded police killing of a black man who…

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — More than 200 former Penn State football players are petitioning university leaders to return the bronze statue of Joe Paterno…

ROMULUS, N.Y. (AP) – A rare herd of ghostly white deer that multiplied at a World War II weapons depot under the protection of the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Lauren Higgins tried to sign up for Spotify’s premium plan on her iPhone, she was irked that the music service…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI won’t recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while secretary of state, agency…

NEW YORK (AP) – Nearly every day, somewhere in the country, the Stars and Stripes was lowered to half-staff last year in one of the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic “Night” became a landmark testament to the Nazis’ crimes and launched…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The reeking carcass of a dead humpback whale was towed back out to sea some 24 hours after washing up at…

PITTSBURGH (AP) – Federal and local authorities have raided eight used electronics shops in and around Pittsburgh. U.S. Attorney David Hickton announced the raids as…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Senate is voting to lift time limits for some perpetrators of child sexual abuse to be sued by their…

The Associated Press A Boston-based publishing company has decided to donate proceeds from Adolf Hitler’s infamous manifesto “Mein Kampf” to a local organization that works…

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook has once again tweaked the formula it uses to decide what people will see in their news feed — and…

ISTANBUL (AP) – A suicide attack at Istanbul’s busy Ataturk Airport Tuesday killed dozens and wounded more than 140 as Turkish officials blamed the carnage…

DALLAS (AP) — Three crew members were missing and one was hurt Tuesday after a head-on train collision in the Texas Panhandle that caused several…

The Associated Press Forty years after military service academies opened their doors to women, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy marked the milestone at a ceremony…

HARRISBURG (AP) – The start of Pennsylvania state government’s 2016-17 fiscal year is just four days away and key budget legislation remains under negotiation behind…

CLENDENIN, W.Va. (AP) — Offering his condolences, President Barack Obama approved federal aid for the West Virginia communities devastated by floods that have killed at…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Heavy rains that pummeled West Virginia left at least 23 people dead, and authorities said Saturday that an unknown number of…