Key goal is to avoid shutdown
WASHINGTON — Lame-duck lawmakers return to Washington today facing a stacked agenda and not much time to get it all done before the new Cong...
Putting limits on free speech?
WASHINGTON — Anthony Elonis claimed he was just kidding when he posted a series of graphically violent rap lyrics on Facebook about killin...
Thursday sales cut into crowds
NEW YORK — Black Friday seemed a little less crazy this year.
There were squabbles here and there, and elbows got thrown, but the Friday mo...
NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Two boys trapped in a snow pile for about seven hours after a plow buried them could hear their worried family’s cries but couldn’t respond loudly enoug...
WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. — This was a pig that truly could not fly.
The pig was ordered off a US Airways plane in Connecticut Wednesday after crew members determined it had ...
FERGUSON, Mo. — Disrupting commerce, transit and traffic became focal points for demonstrators across the country days after the announcement that a grand jury in Fergus...
Holiday doesn't slow them down
NEW YORK — Early-bird shoppers headed to stores on Thanksgiving in what’s becoming a new holiday tradition.
In the Chicago suburb of Naperv...
AUSTIN, Texas — Authorities shot and killed a man who they say opened fire on Austin police headquarters early this morning, and a bomb squad was called in to search his...
Many witness accounts differ
FERGUSON, Mo. — The word spread within minutes of Michael Brown’s death — a young black man with his hands raised in surrender had just been ...
Writer says he was wrong
NEW YORK — The author of a new Bill Cosby biography is apologizing for not pursuing allegations that the comedian had drugged and sexually assaul...
