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He was serving life sentence COLUMBUS, Ohio — The man serving a life prison term for kidnapping three women and repeatedly raping them in his home for nearly a decade has...

New types hit market WASHINGTON — Flu vaccination is no longer merely a choice between a jab in the arm or a squirt in the nose. This fall, some brands promise a little e...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — A relatively cool and humid Labor Day allowed fire crews to make major progress Monday toward corralling a massive wildfire searing the ...

Hot classrooms cause problems CHICAGO — When city students arrived for the first day of school under the blazing temperatures of a Midwest heat wave, staff greeted them w...

KEY WEST, Fla. — Defeated before in bids to swim from Cuba to Florida, Diana Nyad would cry and rage through swollen lips and welts at the jellyfish tentacles that had r...

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — A once-endangered collection of a Founding Father's writings and effects has found a safe new home. Iona College in the New York City suburbs is abo...

AMHERST, Mass. — In what’s become an annual tradition, the University of Massachusetts celebrated the start of the new academic year with a delicious, healthy, record-br...

LOS ANGELES — One Direction’s legion of teenage fans couldn’t overpower Oprah Winfrey at movie theaters this Labor Day, as “The Butler” cleaned up at the box office for ...

Stats highlight big changes WASHINGTON — Driving in America has stalled, leading researchers to ask: Is the national love affair with the automobile over? After rising fo...

PITTSFORD, N.Y. — Darren Manzella, a gay combat medic discharged from the Army after criticizing the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in a 2007 television inter...