Balt. officer is acquitted
BALTIMORE — After two trials and no convictions, Baltimore’s top prosecutor is facing criticism that she moved too quickly to file charges agai...
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge is set to get an update on ongoing settlement talks in the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal after announcing a tentative deal last m...
WASHINGTON — Federal laws will no longer include outdated and offensive terms used to describe minority groups.
President Barack Obama signed a bill striking the several...
He says convention could get 'messy'
LOS ANGELES — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia and his push t...
[naviga:h3]Septuplets graduate from high school[/naviga:h3]
CARLISLE, Iowa — The world’s first surviving septuplets have graduated from their Iowa high school.
Alexis, B...
La. native died in 1942
NEW ORLEANS — More than seven decades after being killed during World War II, Pvt. Earl Joseph Keating is finally coming home to his native New Or...
SAN FRANCISCO — Longtime San Francisco Giants third baseman Jim Ray Hart has died. He was 74. The Giants announced Hart’s death Friday, saying he passed away Thursday in...
Currency changes reflect culture
Shortly after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a grieving nation bombarded U.S. officials with requests to create a coin i...
President was not at home
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Secret Service officer shot a man with a gun who approached a checkpoint outside the White House and refused to drop his wea...
HONOLULU — The last 50 wild donkeys on Hawaii’s Big Island will be rounded up to mark the final step in a six-year effort to get them in adoptive homes.
The donkeys are ...
