WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama recognized 17 Americans with the nation’s highest civilian award Tuesday.
Those receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom were film...
CHICAGO — A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times last year was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, hours before the city released a vide...
GOP leaders raise fears
TRENTON, N.J. — Muslim-Americans who sued the New York Police Department over a surveillance program launched after 9/11 say calls from the Republ...
[naviga:h3]4 dead after copter crashes at Fort Hood[/naviga:h3]
FORT HOOD, Texas — U.S. Army officials say four people have died in a helicopter crash at Fort Hood.
A st...
Wash. residents face cold holiday
SPOKANE, Wash. — Janet Gray, one of thousands of people in the Spokane area still without power following a major windstorm, gave up liv...
16 people hurt at playground
NEW ORLEANS — Police have been trying to figure out what sparked a gun battle in a crowded New Orleans park that left 16 people wounded and t...
Boston area deer herd grows large
BOSTON — A plan to allow hunting in a nearly 11-square-mile swath of pristine forest within sight of downtown Boston to thin the explodi...
Yasui fought for civil rights
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Relatives of a civil rights attorney being honored posthumously this week with a Presidential Medal of Freedom for challe...
Letters sent to governors about vetting process
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is assuring governors that refugees who come to the United States in its resettlemen...
[naviga:h3]Drugmaker merger will lower tax rate[/naviga:h3]
Pfizer and Allergan are joining in the biggest buyout of the year, a $160 billion stock deal that will create...
