MONROEVILLE, Ala. — The Alabama hometown of “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee is known for staging an annual play based on her classic novel. The production brin...
DETROIT — If you live where salt is used to clear the roads of snow and ice, U.S. safety regulators have a message for you: Wash the underside of your car.
The message c...
With voter turnout soaring, Ferguson voters remade the racial makeup of their City Council on Tuesday in the St. Louis suburb’s first municipal election since a white po...
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dramatic video that appears to show a white South Carolina police officer shooting a fleeing black man after a traffic stop has led authorities to fil...
Summer should be good season
LOS ANGELES — An ongoing glut of crude oil will give U.S. drivers this summer the lowest seasonal gasoline prices in six years, the governmen...
CELORON, N.Y. — They may have loved “I Love Lucy” but many in Lucille Ball’s western New York hometown have no affection for her life-size statue in a local park.
Since ...
NEW YORK — Julie Wilson, a musical theater actress and cabaret star who earned a Tony Award nomination and was cheered for her ability to harness the songs of Stephen So...
Israel presents list of changes
WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday redoubled efforts to tout a proposed nuclear deal with Iran as a “forever agreement” that comes wit...
116-year-old lived in Ark.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Just days after becoming the world’s oldest documented person, 116-year-old Gertrude Weaver died Monday in Arkansas.
Weaver...
BOSTON — Jurors in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are set to begin deliberations after both prosecutors and his lawyers told them Tsarnaev must be...
