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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - An independent report that found serious police and government failures in responding to violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville this summer also accuses police agencies of putting up roadblocks to the inv...

WASHINGTON (AP) - House GOP leaders unveiled a plan Saturday to avert a government shutdown next weekend and keep the government open through Dec. 22. The measure would buy time for bipartisan talks on a bigger budget agreement that would give the Pe...

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - An attorney for a 19-year-old college student charged in the fatal shooting of a Texas Tech University police officer says prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against his client if he's convicted of capital murder....

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - A ferret species once thought to be extinct is making a modest comeback on the prairie, thanks to the work of staff at a Kansas nature center and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists. The Prairie Park Nature Center and...

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) - Liz Whitehurst dabbled in several careers before she ended up here, crating fistfuls of fresh-cut arugula in the early-November chill. The hours were better at her nonprofit jobs. So were the benefits. But two years ago,...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) - Mike Duncan rolled up his pant leg to reveal the scars on his left leg - scars where bullets had entered his thigh and knee while he was serving in Afghanistan in 2009. Duncan was at the end of his nine-month tour and set to...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - Dee Judd was home alone July 12 when her blood pressure spiked to dangerous levels. Her brain fuzzy and her body aching and burning from head to toe, life moved in slow motion. Thinking she might be dehydrated from working...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - President Donald Trump's administration announced Friday that it won't require mining companies to prove they have the financial wherewithal to clean up their pollution, despite an industry legacy of abandoned mines that have...

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) - An opossum that apparently drank bourbon after breaking into a Florida liquor store sobered up at a wildlife rescue center and was released unharmed. Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge officials say the opossum was brought...

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - When a man found the only worker at an empty South Carolina Waffle House asleep, he took his meal into his own hands. On Facebook , Alex Bowen chronicled with selfies how he made his own double Texas bacon cheese steak...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas legislators' criticism of a plan to build a new state prison reflects bipartisan mistrust of the Department of Corrections and doubts that it seriously considered a potentially cheaper alternative to leasing the new...

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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A woman has filed a protective order against Oklahoma running back Rodney Anderson in Cleveland County Court. Court documents say a hearing is scheduled for Dec. 18. An Oklahoma spokesman said the school is aware and gathering i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The shifting explanations for why President Donald Trump fired national security adviser Michael Flynn have revived questions about whether the president may have obstructed an ongoing investigation of potential contacts between his...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump's endorsement of Republican Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race (all times local): 9:35 p.m. The Republican National Committee is once again supporting embattled Republican Senate candidate Roy...

TOKYO (AP) — Kim. Nuclear. War. The message embedded in North Korea's propaganda is summed up best in those three words. That's what the world hears — and what's revealed in this word cloud, a visual display of terms used by the Korean Central New...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to fully enforce a ban on travel to the United States by residents of six mostly Muslim countries. This is not a final ruling on the travel ban: Challenges to the p...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers and the developer of the Dakota Access pipeline must complete an oil spill response plan for the stretch of pipe beneath the Missouri River in North Dakota, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. D...