Texas police fatally shoot unarmed college football player
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) – A police officer in suburban Dallas shot and killed a college football player during a struggle after the unarmed 19-year-old crashed a car through the front window of a car...
View ArticleGOP candidates ride debate momentum to RedState activists
ATLANTA (AP) – Republican presidential candidates are getting a second chance to make a good first impression with conservative activists after their inaugural televised debates had unheard of millions...
View Article4 dead in small plane crash in NY’s Adirondack Mountains
LAKE CLEAR, N.Y. (AP) – A small plane crashed in the Adirondack Mountains, leaving four people dead in the fiery wreckage, state police said Saturday. The Piper PA-46 plane went down around 6:30 p.m....
View ArticleJustices speak out about death penalty, but executions go on
WASHINGTON (AP) – Wherever their summer travels have taken them, Supreme Court justices probably will weigh in over the next few days on Texas’ plans to execute two death row inmates in the week ahead....
View Article3 bodies found inside Vermont home, authorities say
BERLIN, Vt. (AP) – Authorities in central Vermont say police are investing multiple deaths at a home in Berlin. The Vermont State Police said Saturday they are assisting the Berlin Police Department...
View ArticleMinnesota police arrest man in Ohio woman’s death
FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) – Faribault police have arrested a 39-year-old man who is suspected of killing a missing Ohio woman. The man led police Friday to the body in a wooded area in Warsaw Township...
View ArticleVermont inmate dies in Kentucky prison, and no one sure why
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – James Nicholson lay in a Kentucky intensive care unit, days after he was beaten with a makeshift mace in a private prison in April. His skull cracked and his brain bruised, he...
View ArticleWastewater from Colorado mine reaches New Mexico
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) – A yellow sludge spilling from a shuttered gold mine into a southwestern Colorado river has reached northern New Mexico. San Juan County Emergency Management Director Don Cooper...
View ArticleFrom traffic stop to fiery uproar, a look at the Watts riots
LOS ANGELES (AP) – It began with a routine traffic stop, blossomed into a protest with the help of a rumor and escalated into the deadliest and most destructive rioting Los Angeles had seen. The Watts...
View ArticleCalifornia wildfire 62 percent contained, evacuees return home
CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. (AP) – A Northern California wildfire that incinerated 43 homes and sent thousands fleeing has been reduced to embers and smoke. Fire officials say the blaze was 62 percent...
View ArticleMom arrested in death of 1-month-old found in NYC courtyard
NEW YORK (AP) – A mother has been arrested on a murder charge after her newborn baby boy was found dead in the courtyard of their New York City apartment building. The New York Police Department said...
View ArticleObama tees off on 1st full day of Martha’s Vineyard vacation
OAK BLUFFS, Mass. (AP) – President Barack Obama is spending his first full day of vacation on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard playing golf. Obama arrived at Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak...
View ArticleDramatic video shows robbery in New York
BRONX, New York (CNN) – Police are investigating an armed robbery at a Bronx laundromat. Wearing a mask straight from a horror movie, the armed robber paralyzed laundromat clerk Wen Mind with fear. “I...
View ArticleMayor De Blasio says bacteria outbreak has been contained
NEW YORK (AP) – Five more buildings in the Bronx have tested positive for the bacteria that cause the potentially deadly Legionnaires’ disease, though there is no sign that anyone has grown ill from...
View ArticleTrump barred from conservative gathering after latest barb
ATLANTA (AP) – Donald Trump opened his mouth again and found the door closed to him Saturday at a high-profile gathering of conservative activists. His latest incendiary comment, about one of the Fox...
View ArticleMake-A-Wish helps toddler battling leukemia find her dream unicorn
This report is from our sister station KHON in Honolulu, Hawaii. Little Eva dreamed of coming to Hawaii, a magical land that’s home to a unicorn. That’s what she thinks of the islands, due to an...
View ArticlePolice chief: Woman armed with knife shot by officer
WASHINGTON (AP) – A woman was shot by a Washington, D.C., police officer at the scene of a fire Saturday evening in Northeast Washington. According to the Washington Post (http://wapo.st/1gnNEhg ) D.C....
View ArticleTexas police: 5 children, 3 adults found dead inside home
HOUSTON (AP) – Eight people – including five children and three adults – were found slain inside a Houston-area home and a man with a history of violence who exchanged gunfire with police has been...
View ArticlePolice: 2 dead, 3 hurt, including 2 officers, in shootout
GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) – Police responding to a call about a man killing his neighbor in North Carolina shot and killed the gunman, authorities said Sunday. Two officers and a bystander were wounded. The...
View ArticleHow to trump Trump: Rivals have varying approaches
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon, so his rivals are scrambling to figure out how best to handle the blowback from every new...
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