LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California wildfire that has killed two people and seared its way through cities, towns and wilderness northwest of Los Angeles became the largest blaze ever officially recorded in California on Friday, authorities said. The T...

SCHERTZ, Texas (AP) — The death of a 6-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a stray bullet when deputies near San Antonio opened fire on a woman being sought for crimes is a "tragic accident," a Texas sheriff said Friday. The woman, 30-year-old A...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A fraternity at the University of New Mexico that has been suspended while the school investigates misconduct allegations will not re-open. Graduate trustees of the 80-member Phi Gamma Delta chapter house at UNM decided F...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Democratic state lawmaker wants New Mexico to allocate special funding to help boost training designed to help teachers and principals identify and report allegations of sexual abuse of students. Sen. Mimi Stewart of A...

WINDSOR, Colo. (AP) — An investigation is underway after a worker at an oil site in northern Colorado was injured in an overnight fire that was brought under control Saturday. It took several hours for firefighters to get a handle on the blaze and s...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's leftist presidential front-runner is combative and unbending, and his personality-based campaign proclaiming honesty and fiery nationalism could set up a unique and combustible relationship with his northern counterpart sh...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Cleanup at a nuclear reactor test site built in the late 1960s began this year after three decades of waiting. Thousands of pounds of low-level radioactive waste have since been trucked away from rural Washington County t...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni tribal officials say a Saudi-led coalition airstrike has killed at least 10 people and wounded 25 others in the capital, Sanaa. The officials said Saturday's airstrike targeted a gathering of tribesmen supporting Shiite r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two things can be true at once. President Donald Trump's tax overhaul is slanted to the rich, as Democrats say and Republicans like to ignore. It also comes with tax cuts for average people, which Democrats bypass in slamming Trump'...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A Presbyterian church in southeast Missouri is reaching out to those affected by Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia with a service that caters to them. The Southeast Missourian reports that 30 to 40 people t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A single bed bug is causing headaches at the Veterans Administration health center in Topeka. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that staff at Colmery O'Neil VA Health Center on Friday diverted ambulances from the emergency d...

DENVER (AP) — A year ago in November, when Susan and Kurt Huschle cast their ballots in favor of the state's aid-in-dying law, they viewed the measure with the personal detachment of a distant what-if. Three months later, Kurt faced a terminal d...

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — For decades, only a small brick engraved with the number "1685" marked a grave in the far corner of a grassy field that sits on the outskirts of town. Over the decades, thick sod had overgrown the brick, obscuring the resting pl...

NEW YORK (AP) — The former National Security Agency contractor who exposed U.S. government surveillance programs by disclosing classified material in 2013 has a new job: app developer. Edward Snowden in a video message Friday unveiled a new phone a...

BOSTON (AP) — Amazon has bought an Andover, Massachusetts-based company that makes internet-connected doorbells and security cameras. Blink announced on its website Friday it was being acquired by the Seattle e-commerce giant. Terms of the deal h...

DENVER (AP) — Alexa, where's Santa? Amazon's diligent, computerized know-it-all is the latest technology to enlist in NORAD Tracks Santa, the military-run program that fields phone calls and emails from children around the world eager to ask when S...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A day after Oded Ben Dov appeared on Israeli television to promote his video game technology, which allowed players to control their games by moving their heads, a viewer called him with another suggestion for the software. "I c...

SEATTLE (AP) — Later this month, a University of Washington researcher will heave a half-million dollars' worth of robotic sensors into the frigid waters off Antarctica — and hope for the best. If all goes well, the drones could gather some of the...

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A reused SpaceX rocket carried 10 satellites into orbit from California on Friday, leaving behind a trail of mystery and wonder as it soared into space. The Falcon 9 booster lifted off from coastal V...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — A judge will decide next month if the Selah man accused of shooting two MoneyTree employees can plead insanity based on genetics. Yakima County Superior Court Judge Michael McCarthy heard arguments on letting genetic experts t...

SEVERNA PARK, Md. (AP) — An anonymous donor in Maryland put her fellow congregants to work spreading Christmas cheer — with $100 bills. The donor arranged for her pastor at Severna Park United Methodist Church to distribute a $100 bill to each of...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — O Christmas Tree! A Grinch of a storm has toppled the official holiday spruce in Tennessee's capital city. Area media outlets report that Nashville's 40-foot (12-meter) Norway spruce was toppled overnight, with officials b...

GREENFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts police have a new mystery to solve: Who wrote a 1944 love letter discovered within the walls of a house being remodeled? The Greenfield Police Department took to Facebook on Saturday to ask for the public's h...

ROCKPORT, Mass. (AP) — A life-size elf mannequin on display in a Massachusetts yard has been turning heads — and occasionally losing his own. Actress Melissa McMeekin has been having a little fun by moving her 6-foot-tall elf doll to different loc...

PARIS (AP) — Urban scientists and Paris foodies are getting excited about a bizarre discovery atop a hotel near the Eiffel Tower: the first-ever wild truffle growing in the French capital. It's just one 25-gram (0.9-ounce) winter truffle. But t...