NEW YORK — Janet Jackson, Steve Miller, Chicago and The Cars are among the first-time nominees being considered for induction next year in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
Senate Dems aim for tougher laws
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are preparing a legislative push to curb guns, a week after a mass shooting at an Oregon community college ...
Thousands getting out
WASHINGTON — Drug criminals once described by prosecutors as unrepentant repeat offenders are among those poised to benefit from new sentencing guid...
Gov't health insurance site to get simpler
WASHINGTON — Consumers shopping on the government’s health insurance website should find it easier this year to get basic quest...
Woman wore crown in 1954
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The family of Miss South Carolina 1954 found her flood-soaked pageant scrapbook on a dining room floor littered with dead fish o...
22 civilians died in hospital strike
WASHINGTON — The deadly U.S. attack on a hospital in Afghanistan, which U.S. officials have called a “mistake,” leaves open the possi...
Julie Leach of Three Rivers, Mich., holds her $310 million check aloft Tuesday in Lansing, Mich., as the Michigan Lottery Commission announces she was the sole winner of...
LOS ANGELES — A model who has accused Bill Cosby of drugging her at the Playboy Mansion in 2008 sued the comedian on Tuesday for sexual assault.
Chloe Goins’ lawsuit fil...
NEW YORK — Thousands of people joined Yoko Ono in Central Park on Tuesday to try to set a world record for largest group of human bodies forming a peace sign.
The record...
Sunny forecast can't fix all
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina was expecting sunshine today after days of inundation, but it will still take weeks for the state to return t...
