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A huge construction crane being lowered to safety in a snow squall plummeted into a Lower Manhattan street Friday, killing a person in a parked car and leaving three people wounded by debris that scattered as the ...

Law enforcement officers have linked Blake Fitzgerald and Brittany Nicole Harper to a spree of abductions and robberies in Missouri, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. A timeline of the crimes, fro…

Law enforcement officers have linked Blake Fitzgerald and Brittany Nicole Harper to a spree of abductions and robberies in Missouri, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. A timeline of the crimes, from interviews with law enforcement by The Associated Press and its member news organizations and statements by local police and the U.S. Marshals Service.

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BUCHAREST, Romania - Romanian officials say five people died Friday and 28 people were injured when a bus slammed into the back of a dump truck carrying a load of sand.

It’s one thing to be cut by a team, or even an agent. But when your own flesh and blood begin to worry about you, it’s a whole different sign. According to Kate Hairopoulos of the Dallas Morning News, quarterback Johnny Manziel’s family is concerned for his well-being, after he twice declined trips to rehab facilities…

PORTLAND, Oregon - The Latest on an armed group that took over buildings at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon (all times local):

Blake Edward Fitzgerald and his girlfriend, Brittany Nicole Harper, had a $10,000 bounty on their heads for a Bonnie-and-Clyde-style crime spree.

From its somewhat humble beginnings in 1967, when it was called the AFL-NFL Championship Game, the Super Bowl has grown into a worldwide event.

On a remote island off of Nantucket, scientists are using a tool most commonly associated with war and surveillance to get a look at fuzzy baby seals.

On a remote island off of Nantucket, scientists are using a tool most commonly associated with war and surveillance to get a look at fuzzy baby seals. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration used a pair of unmanned aircraft on Muskeget Island off of Massachusetts to take pictures of seal pups in January. The pictures will help scientists find how many gray seals there are in Northeastern waters, said Kimberly Murray, the coordinator of the seal research program at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center.

BOSTON - Stoic New Englanders doggedly went about their business Friday as a winter storm that could drop close to a foot of snow in some areas struck the region.

The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory from Delaware to New Jersey and a winter storm warning for most of New England. Meteorologist Mal Walker in Caribou says Maine's eastern tip could see up to 11 inches. New Jersey was expected to get up to 5 inches, while rain that turned to snow snarled the morning commute in eastern Pennsylvania and caused some schools to delay opening. The wet, heavy snow weighs down tree limbs and power lines.

A dead cat is at the centre of a legal dispute between two neighbours living in a Diep River complex.

The jump shot is the most important innovation in basketball’s history. Yet people have worried about its impact since it appeared in the 1930s.

LONDON (AP) — The U.N. office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights says women in countries stricken by the Zika virus — which has been linked to an increase in the number of babies born w…

Cricketer Irfan Pathan has tied nuptial knots with a 21-year-old girl from Jeddah. The all-rounder from Baroda married Safa Baig at Haram Shareef in the holy city of Mecca on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton cast the financial industry as an adversary in her presidential campaign — despite the money that industry has poured into her White House effort. People in the securities and investment industry gave more than $17 million last year to super political action committees supporting her presidential run and nearly $3 million directly to her campaign, according to OpenSecrets.org, a campaign-finance watchdog. Wall Street is the top industry donating to her effort, ahead of the legal profession... Читать дальше...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Ernie Els surged into contention Friday at the Dubai Desert Classic, while Rory McIlroy struggled just to make the cut.

HAT YAI, Thailand - Police in southern Thailand, where Muslim separatists are staging an insurgency, said they found and disarmed a small improvised explosive rocket on Friday similar to ones discovered for the first time last month.

HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) — Police in southern Thailand, where Muslim separatists are staging an insurgency, said they found and disarmed a small improvised explosive rocket on Friday similar to ones discovered for the first time last month. Last month, after several similar devices were found by authorities, the separatist Patani United Liberation Organization said it was targeting Thai army bases with rocket attacks, though it is unclear if any launches were carried out.