BOSTON — With its thumb raised skyward and a grin on its digital face, the robotic creation of two researchers in Canada is about to start a hitchhiking journey across t...
Police shoot, kill man, 24
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The man who authorities say killed four Marines in an attack on a military recruiting center and another U.S. military sit...
Jury to decide if he should die
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Families of the 12 people James Holmes killed and the scores he injured in a packed movie theater were relieved that j...
LOS ANGELES — Authorities in Los Angeles are looking for a burglar who accidentally made a selfie with his victim’s iPhone.
Police say the thief entered a home through a...
Snakes, mud hamper effort
FLAT GAP, Ky. — They roam the banks of the swollen creek, looking for those who were lost when a flash flood ravaged this rural eastern Kentucky...
He pushes for fairer system
OKLAHOMA CITY — President Barack Obama’s push for a fairer justice system is literally sending him to prison.
As part of a weeklong focus on i...
Years of budget cuts hurt operation
WASHINGTON — Hello? Hello? Customer service at the IRS hit new lows this year, just as taxpayers were grappling with a wave of identit...
Television audiences knew actor Roger Rees as the hilariously condescending Robin Colcord on “Cheers,” the glib British ambassador Lord John Marbury on “The West Wing” a...
[naviga:h3]George H.W. Bush, 91, falls, injures neck
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — George H.W. Bush, the oldest living former U.S. president, fell at his summer home on Wednesd...
ST. LOUIS — A man who police say has admitted to being the getaway driver during an ambush shooting that wounded a uniformed St. Louis police sergeant has been charged w...
