10:38, 20 May 2019
A 23-year-old transgender woman seen on a widely circulated video being beaten in front of a crowd of people was found dead over the weekend in a Dallas shooting, police said. Muhlaysia Booker was found face-down ...
20:50, 19 May 2019
Forecasters say four tornadoes struck parts of West Texas in severe weather that damaged some homes and businesses.The National Weather Service on Sunday reported two tornadoes hit parts of San Angelo a day earlier. Another ...
11:54, 19 May 2019
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement pilot of new DNA testing at the border discovered that approximately one-third of those tested were not biologically linked to their custody kids. ICE conducted the pilot in El Paso and ...
11:34, 19 May 2019
An eight-year-old girl was found safe seven hours later in a hotel room in Texas before police arrested a 51-year-old suspect in her kidnapping. At a hotel in Fort Worth, Texas, at around 2 am Sunday, ...
11:32, 19 May 2019
Testimony has ended in the lawsuit by some Texas residents seeking U.S. government compensation after their land flooded when two federally owned reservoirs overflowed during Hurricane Harvey.The Houston Chronicle reports testimony wrapped up Friday in ...
15:54, 18 May 2019
The mother of a 4-year-old Texas girl who hasn't been seen for weeks says she wants to hope her daughter is still alive.Brittany Bowens told KTRK television Friday that she may never know what really ...
12:14, 18 May 2019
Actor Matthew McConaughey has finally received his high school diploma, more than 30 years after graduating.McConaughey was given his original diploma Friday night when he returned to his Texas alma mater to address the class ...
22:26, 16 May 2019
We're in for another comparatively quiet climate day before early Saturday a row of heavy thunderstorms rumble to southwest Texas. Chief Meteorologist Travis Herzog suggests that the Gulf Brise may give us a few short ...
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11:51, 19 May 2019
The Senate's top Democrat is calling on the federal government to step in and investigate whether a plan for new subway cars in New York City designed by a Chinese state-owned company could pose a ...
15:24, 18 May 2019
Firefighters have responded to the scene of digital billboard on fire in Times Square.Flames stated shooting out of the LED billboard just after 3 p.m. Saturday.The Fire Department says no injuries have been reported and ...
19:31, 17 May 2019
The U.S. Border Patrol said Friday that it would fly hundreds of migrant families from south Texas to San Diego for processing and that it was considering flights to Detroit, Miami and Buffalo, New York. The ...
16:14, 17 May 2019
With friends like these, Mayor Bill de Blasio doesn't need enemies.New York Attorney General Letitia James expressed exasperation on the "Pod Save America" podcast late Thursday over her fellow Democrat's decision to run for president.She ...
02:53, 17 May 2019
The U.S. Coast Guard says a World War II-era shipwreck off Long Island is leaking oil through two pinpoint leaks. It is conducting an assessment of the remaining oil aboard the British tanker Coimbra, which ...
00:27, 17 May 2019
Ian Kinsler hit a go-ahead, three-run homer for the San Diego Padres, who beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 Thursday night and set the major league record by going 8,020 games without a no-hitter since their ...
21:25, 16 May 2019
The New York Police Department used a photo of Woody Harrelson in its facial recognition program in an attempt to identify a beer thief who looked like the actor, according to a report published Thursday.Georgetown ...
15:16, 16 May 2019
Every year, around May 13, you will find thousands of Falun Dafa practitioners openly meditating in New York City’s Manhattan and neighboring boroughs—very happy to show anyone who wants to learn the five exercises known ...
15:01, 16 May 2019
A Hudson River educational sloop that was the brainchild of the late activist musician Pete Seeger and his friends is marking its 50th anniversary.Some of the Clearwater 's founders and crew members will gather with ...
11:00, 16 May 2019
Denying children a hot meal apparently isn't a popular way for schools to deal with unpaid lunch money.After a flood of angry Facebook comments and phone calls, a Rhode Island district last week abandoned its ...
06:30, 16 May 2019
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday, May 16, that he will seek the Democratic nomination for president, adding his name to an already long list of candidates itching for a chance to ...
14:36, 15 May 2019
The famous winged TWA terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport came out of its decades-long retirement Wednesday with a new life as a luxury hotel."How beautiful is this?" said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ...
11:37, 15 May 2019
Critics have generally not been kind to the new Hudson Yards complex.The new neighborhood, built atop a platform over train yards on the west side of Manhattan, features sleek glass towers with stratospherically expensive residential, ...
10:37, 15 May 2019
Food Network star Sandra Lee says she and her longtime partner, Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, are selling their house in the New York City suburbs.Lee tells The New York Times that the 1950s ...
20:15, 14 May 2019
One of Claude Monet's iconic paintings of haystacks has fetched a record $110.7 million at an auction in New York.Monet's "Meules" sold at Sotheby's sale of Impressionist & Modern Art Tuesday night. The auction house ...
16:36, 14 May 2019
Thousands of people are gathering in New York this week to celebrate an ancient meditation practice of mind and body, which is embraced in the United States and many other countries. But the Chinese Communist ...
15:12, 14 May 2019
Tenants from around New York state gathered in Albany on Tuesday to push for stronger rental protections to address a shortage of affordable housing — a problem that they say is no longer confined to ...
09:53, 14 May 2019
Call them zombie cells — they refuse to die.As they build up in your body, studies suggest, they promote aging and the conditions that come with it like osteoporosis and Alzheimer's disease. Researchers are studying ...
00:02, 13 May 2019
A long-delayed disciplinary trial is set to begin for the New York City police officer accused of using a banned chokehold in the July 2014 death of Eric Garner.Officer Daniel Pantaleo's trial is scheduled to ...
21:30, 10 May 2019
Amed Rosario hit a grand slam during an eight-run outburst that marked the Mets' biggest first inning in three decades, and New York rolled to an 11-2 rout of the Miami Marlins on Friday night.Michael ...
02:01, 19 May 2019
She alights from a black Ferrari convertible, her Christian Louboutin stilettos glinting in the sunlight. The lid of her black lacquer grand piano is propped open in the living room of her plush Beverly Hills ...
21:48, 18 May 2019
Authorities say somebody stole a tripod from a California Department of Transportation crew and then dropped it from an overpass onto a Sacramento freeway, impaling the lung of a passenger in a van.The driver of ...
17:24, 18 May 2019
Police in central California say an anonymous tip has led them to identify and arrest a man wanted on suspicion of killing a homeless woman.Modesto police said officers pulled over 37-year-old Joseph Chapman Friday night ...
18:33, 17 May 2019
A judge ordered California's attorney general to release police misconduct records predating Jan. 1, when new transparency legislation took effect.San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard B. Ulmer, Jr. on Friday also rejected arguments by Attorney ...
18:19, 17 May 2019
The Latest on an F-16 fighter jet that crashed into a Southern California warehouse (all times local):4:10 p.m.Authorities say an F-16 fighter jet that crashed into a Southern California warehouse was armed but they wouldn't ...
14:41, 17 May 2019
A new assessment by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers raises concern about the potential for failure of the spillway of a flood control dam on a Southern California river where 1.4 million people live ...
14:36, 17 May 2019
A federal judge will let a jury decide whether conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars website had a legal right to sell a poster featuring the image of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character that became ...
11:06, 17 May 2019
The Latest on the crash of an F-16 fighter jet in Southern California (all times local):9:05 a.m.A military official says an explosive ordnance disposal detail is on the scene of an F-16 fighter jet crash ...
08:01, 17 May 2019
San Diego, CA, May 17, 2019 --( PR.com )-- On Tuesday, several Catholic diocese in California, including the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Diocese of San Diego, announced the formation of a “victim’s compensation ...
00:28, 17 May 2019
A warehouse worker said he heard the deafening noise of an F-16 jet moments before it smashed through the roof of the building near a Southern California air base. "Next thing I know I just hear ...
22:38, 16 May 2019
Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department are requesting for assistance from the public to identify a lady caught on camera from a McDonald's restaurant carrying a kid. Police said the woman suspect met and took ...
21:15, 16 May 2019
A former University of California, Berkeley fraternity member was arrested for allegedly punching, biting and sexually assaulting two women, one of them at a fraternity house, authorities said Thursday.Finn Wolff, 20, was arrested on Tuesday ...
21:10, 16 May 2019
A suspect was arrested in a March 1974 killing in California after investigators used the same advanced DNA testing that helped crack the Golden State Killer case, authorities said Thursday.John Arthur Getreu, 75, was arrested ...
21:03, 16 May 2019
Authorities say a pilot has been killed after a small plane crashed in the Southern California mountains.The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office says the wreckage of the single-engine Aviat plane was spotted early Thursday in ...
20:04, 16 May 2019
A pilot ejected moments before an F-16 fighter jet crashed Thursday into a warehouse just outside March Air Reserve Base in California, military officials said. The pilot was not hurt, and there were no immediate reports ...
19:57, 16 May 2019
California lawmakers blocked an effort Thursday to expand the state's sweeping new data privacy law, handing a victory the tech industry as it faces mounting scrutiny over how it collects, stores and sells consumers' information.The ...
19:32, 16 May 2019
A federal count shows the number of homeless people increased by double-digit percentages in three San Francisco Bay Area counties over two years as the region struggled to tackle the growing problem, including 17% in ...
16:39, 16 May 2019
The Trump administration cancelled nearly $1 billion Thursday in federal money for California's high-speed rail project, further throwing into question the future of the ambitious plan to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco. The administration said ...
15:53, 16 May 2019
Authorities say a murder suspect has died while hospitalized following a shootout with police during a chase last week in Southern California. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says Dylan Andres Lindsay died Thursday of an ...
15:42, 16 May 2019
A Northern California man convicted in a 2002 drive-by shooting that left a man paralyzed has been exonerated and freed after 17 years in prison, his attorney said Thursday.Lionel Rubalcava, 40, who had been serving ...
23:15, 19 May 2019
Lori Lightfoot will have a powerful ally after she's sworn in Monday as Chicago mayor in seeking to fulfill a campaign promise to overhaul the Police Department in the nation's third-largest city: a judge with ...
09:24, 19 May 2019
A wildlife biologist has taken prairie chickens from Kansas, which has a more robust population, and released them in Illinois in an effort to boost the population of the endangered birds.The birds once numbered in ...
15:46, 18 May 2019
Police and Illinois' child welfare agency say staff at a Chicago-area hospital didn't alert them after determining that a bloodied woman who arrived with a gravely ill newborn had not just given birth to the ...
14:24, 17 May 2019
A pregnant Chicago teen who was killed and whose baby was cut from her womb was strangled while being shown a photo album of the late son and brother of her attackers, a prosecutor said ...
16:05, 16 May 2019
The grisly act is rare, yet it's common enough to have a name: fetal abduction. The latest case out of Chicago — in which 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez was strangled and her baby cut from her womb ...
15:06, 16 May 2019
A pregnant woman who had gone to a Chicago home in response to a Facebook offer of free baby clothes was strangled and her baby cut from her womb, police and family members said. The newborn ...
09:26, 15 May 2019
Authorities in Peoria say a 4-year-old boy died when gunfire intended for someone else struck him three times in the back and arm.Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said Tuesday that Jeremiah L. Ward died from ...
17:32, 10 May 2019
More than 100 people gathered Friday along a chain-link fence outside a badly damaged Illinois silicone factory to remember four men who died in an explosion at the facility. The mourners at AB Specialty Silicones factory ...
11:05, 09 May 2019
The FBI has added a man to its Ten Most Wanted list who's accused of killing his wife just hours after their 2012 wedding.The FBI says 37-year-old Arnoldo Jimenez of Chicago may have fled to ...
16:17, 08 May 2019
Rain swamping the nation's midsection forced people from their homes in Kansas, stranded dozens of Texas children at school overnight and strained levees along the surging Mississippi River in Illinois, Missouri and elsewhere Wednesday prompting ...
17:13, 05 May 2019
Search and rescue personnel found the body of another worker Sunday in the rubble of a northern Illinois silicone plant that exploded and burst into flames two days ago, bringing the death toll to three ...
16:47, 05 May 2019
The Latest on the explosion and fire at an Illinois silicone plant (all times local):4:30 p.m.Search and rescue personnel have located and are recovering the body of a third employee killed in the explosion and ...
20:08, 04 May 2019
The Latest on an explosion at and Illinois (all times local):8 p.m.A second person has died as a result of injuries suffered from an explosion at an Illinois factory.Initially, one body was found at the ...
15:16, 04 May 2019
An explosion and fire at an Illinois silicone factory was believed to have killed three people, authorities said Saturday, as they recovered the body of one victim while suspending the search for the other two. Crews ...
10:19, 04 May 2019
A 90-year-old great-grandfather is about make history by becoming the oldest student to earn a bachelor's degree from Northeastern Illinois University since the school started keeping records in 1962.Bob Dwyer, a great-grandfather, Army veteran and ...
17:57, 03 May 2019
Hundreds of people have converged on a northern Illinois funeral home to pay respects to a 5-year-old boy whose parents have been charged with his murder. The opportunity to file past the body of AJ Freunds' ...
09:18, 02 May 2019
Court records show that video police recovered from an Illinois woman's cellphone showing her bruised 5-year-old son prompted the boy's father to lead investigators to the child's body.JoAnn Cunningham and Andrew Freund Sr. of Crystal ...
11:50, 30 Apr 2019
Chicago's top prosecutor is fighting a push to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate her office's handling of the case against actor Jussie Smollett. Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx says she'd welcome an independent probe ...
12:48, 26 Apr 2019
Illinois' child-welfare agency removed two employees from case work Friday while officials review their interaction with a family whose 5-year-old son was found beaten to death and covered in plastic in a shallow grave. The Department ...
12:25, 26 Apr 2019
Illinois parents are facing murder charges in the beating death of their son, 5-year-old Andrew "AJ" Freund, whose body was found wrapped in plastic and buried in a shallow grave. The family previously had interaction ...
09:42, 20 May 2019
Plant-based burger maker Impossible Foods is debuting its second product — meatless sausage crumbles — on Little Caesars pizza.Little Caesars will start testing the Impossible Supreme Pizza on Monday at 58 restaurants in Fort Myers, ...
20:37, 19 May 2019
A wooden temple built as a memorial to the 17 victims of a Florida high school mass shooting has been set ablaze in a symbolic gesture of healing.The "Temple of Time" public art installation was ...
16:48, 19 May 2019
President Donald Trump on Sunday denied reports that hundreds of migrants would be flown from the Mexican border to Florida and other areas in the U.S. interior to lessen the workload at crowded Border Patrol ...
16:12, 17 May 2019
Florida's governor plans to fight any federal plans to fly hundreds of immigrants weekly from the Mexican border to South Florida, saying Friday he'll take his case to President Donald Trump. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis made ...
04:00, 17 May 2019
A small airplane made an emergency landing on a Florida highway ramp during rush hour and crashed into a car. News outlets report the plane landed on an Interstate 4 on-ramp just north of Orlando. ...
21:14, 16 May 2019
A small airplane made an emergency landing on a Florida highway ramp during rush hour and crashed into a car.News outlets report the plane landed Thursday around 5:30 p.m. on an Interstate 4 on-ramp in ...
17:56, 16 May 2019
While Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis takes a large entourage of business leaders through Israel, the state's Democratic agriculture commissioner will take her own course through the country.The idea isn't to boost exports of Florida ...
16:48, 16 May 2019
Officials in South Florida say they are frantically preparing for an influx of immigrants being sent by the federal government as the number camped along the U.S. Mexico border grows rapidly. Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen ...
12:41, 16 May 2019
Members of Florida's congressional delegation said Thursday it was unacceptable that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security will not publicly identify the two counties where Russian hackers gained access to voter databases before ...
09:46, 16 May 2019
A Tesla Model S involved in a fatal crash with a semitrailer in Florida March 1 was operating on the company's semi-autonomous Autopilot system, federal investigators have determined.The car drove beneath the trailer, killing the ...
23:09, 15 May 2019
President Donald Trump's latest financial disclosure report is expected to provide a rare glimpse into whether his presidency has helped or hurt his hotels, golf resorts and other parts of his business empire. The report, which ...
15:51, 15 May 2019
The Los Angeles Sparks re-signed free agent Riquna Williams, who was arrested last month after fight with her ex-girlfriend at a Florida home.According to an arrest report, Williams forced her way inside and repeatedly struck ...
12:13, 15 May 2019
The U.S. government is providing long-distance video counseling to teens housed at the country's largest child migrant detention center as officials struggle to accommodate increasing numbers of minors illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Some mental ...
09:44, 15 May 2019
Authorities say a Florida woman ran back into her burning apartment after realizing her two children hadn't made it out. All three died in the fire. Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said during a Wednesday morning ...
12:03, 14 May 2019
Three Democratic lawmakers are asking a government watchdog agency to investigate how a private company tied to former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly secured a no-bid contract to hold migrant children in a ...
08:21, 14 May 2019
The parents of a drunken driver who died in a car crash last year are suing Tiger Woods. They blame the golfer and his girlfriend for allowing their son to drive home from their Florida ...
00:14, 14 May 2019
A fatal shooting outside a crowded South Florida beachfront hotel. Another on a busy Miami Beach street. A third with no serious injuries on a major highway. All involved hip-hop performers or guests of the Rolling ...
03:06, 13 May 2019
Three people were shot in a possible road rage incident outside Trump International Beach Resort in Sunny Isles, Florida on Sunday. Police are investigating a shooting near one of President Donald Trump's resorts in Florida that ...
11:35, 12 May 2019
Officials say Florida rapper Kodak Black was arrested on federal and state weapons charges just before he was to perform at a hip-hop festival.The U.S. Marshals office says in a news release that the 21-year-old ...
02:01, 11 May 2019
A quiet South Beach neighborhood tucked away near bustling City Hall and Lincoln Road has become a battleground between preservationists and homeowners who want more freedom over their properties.Residents of the leafy Palm View neighborhood ...
07:52, 18 May 2019
Ask Vivian Loh a simple question, like her age, and you may not get a simple answer."4,687 days," the Squirrel Hill resident answers softly and without hesitation, sitting in an office at the Winchester Thurston ...
10:39, 17 May 2019
Authorities say one person has been killed and another is missing after an explosion destroyed a home in northeastern Pennsylvania. Officials say emergency responders found 20-year-old Nathan Hedgepeth injured but alive just before 2 a.m. Friday ...
09:59, 15 May 2019
A civil suit says a Pennsylvania pediatric practice knew that one of its physicians was a threat to molest young patients but covered it up. The suit says Laurel Pediatric Associates in Johnstown knew at least ...
16:48, 14 May 2019
The Pennsylvania judge who presided over Bill Cosby's sex-assault case says he let five other accusers testify at Cosby's retrial because they showed his actions were "so distinctive" they became "a signature."A jury last year ...
13:44, 14 May 2019
Pennsylvania's state attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the company that makes OxyContin of fueling the opioid epidemic, making it at least the 39th state to make such a claim against Purdue Pharma.Attorney General ...
09:14, 12 May 2019
Pennsylvania's primary election will decide nominees or officeholders for several high-profile offices, including mayor of the nation's sixth largest city and one of the state's 18 members of the U.S. House. Pennsylvania's primary election is May ...
13:56, 10 May 2019
Fraternities and sororities will no longer be allowed at Swarthmore College.School President Valerie Smith made the announcement Friday.It comes after the only two fraternities at the private liberal arts college in suburban Philadelphia decided to ...
13:49, 07 May 2019
Nearly a dozen lucky ducks have been rescued by eastern Pennsylvania firefighters after falling through a sewer grate and out of sight of their distressed mother.Emergency workers were called Tuesday morning to a street in ...
16:14, 06 May 2019
Demonstrators chanted "stop taking bribes" and threw dollar bills from a balcony in Pennsylvania's House chamber Monday as part of a protest over state law that does not limit the value of gifts that lawmakers ...
16:12, 06 May 2019
Gun rights advocates packed the rotunda of the Pennsylvania Capitol on Monday for an annual Second Amendment rally, pushing their legislative priorities and cheering a call for the Pittsburgh mayor's impeachment.Gun owners roared when the ...
15:29, 06 May 2019
Police from around Pennsylvania are honoring four members of law enforcement who were killed or died last year from injuries sustained while on duty.Monday's ceremony in the Forum auditorium adjacent to the state Capitol was ...
10:41, 02 May 2019
U.S. Steel will invest more than $1 billion on state-of-the-art facilities in western Pennsylvania that it says will improve its steelmaking efficiency and reduce emissions at its Mon Valley Works operations.The company says new casting ...
15:56, 01 May 2019
The Latest on a judge's decision to throw out the conviction of former Penn State President Graham Spanier (all times local):4:55 p.m.Lawyers for former Penn State President Graham Spanier say they're stunned by the comments ...
15:50, 01 May 2019
Hundreds of nuclear power plant workers rallied at Pennsylvania's Capitol amid hearings on legislation to charge ratepayers more to subsidize nuclear power.Workers from Pennsylvania's five plants repeated warnings Wednesday that their jobs and future are ...
07:41, 01 May 2019
The only two fraternities at Swarthmore College have decided to disband amid outrage over documents containing derogatory comments about women and the LGBTQ community and jokes about sexual assault.The decisions to disband Delta Upsilon and ...
11:04, 29 Apr 2019
The Latest on former Vice President Joe Biden and his 2020 campaign (all times local): Noon President Donald Trump is claiming support from rank-and-file union members as Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden prepares to address an organized ...
11:01, 29 Apr 2019
By picking Pennsylvania for his first campaign speech of the presidential race, Joe Biden is signaling he hopes to own what may be the 2020 election's toughest battleground. Planting a flag in Pennsylvania makes sense for ...
05:06, 24 Apr 2019
A former Pennsylvania mayor convicted of exchanging public works contracts for campaign contributions is set to be sentenced as part of a federal pay-to-play investigation that led to raids of two city halls a week ...
10:36, 19 Apr 2019
To understand Pennsylvania's fast-changing political geography, look no further than Tom Killion. After Democrats recently flipped six state Senate seats in the suburbs of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Killion is one of the chamber's last Republicans standing ...
16:50, 17 Apr 2019
A Pennsylvania state government watchdog agency has launched an investigation into the horrific case of a 14-year-old girl who had extensive contact with the child welfare system before her 2016 rape, torture and murder, a ...
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