BURLINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A lion killed a young worker at a wildlife conservatory Sunday after it got loose from a locked space, the center said. Alexandra Black, 22, of New Palestine, Indiana, was killed Sunday after being attacked by the lion in a...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was supposed to be a great year for marijuana entrepreneur Brian Blatz. When California broadly legalized pot on Jan. 1, the lawyer with a background in banking and health care had been working for a year to set up a trucking co...

DANVILLE, Ill. (AP) — The Western Union telegram arrived at Martha Taylor's house five days before Christmas 1941. "The Navy Department deeply regrets to inform you that your son, Charles Edward Nix, signalman, third class, U.S. Navy, is missing f...

HOUSTON (AP) — A man in a pickup truck pulled up next to a car carrying a woman and four girls that was leaving a Houston-area Walmart parking lot and started shooting, killing a 7-year-old inside the car and wounding the woman, authorities said S...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on partial shutdown of the federal government, now in its second week. (all times local): 6:50 p.m. Three confidants of President Donald Trump are indicating that the president's signature campaign pledge to build a w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has ordered a slowdown to the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Syria, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday. "I think we're in a pause situation," the South Carolina Republican said outside the White House a...

HOPE, N.D. (AP) — A company with roots in Silicon Valley is trying to shake up the farm economy — and hundreds of farmers in Minnesota and the Dakotas are dipping their toes in the waters. The Farmers Business Network was born of farmers fru...