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Police: 3 kids killed, mother critically injured in shooting
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Critically wounded, an Albuquerque mother struggled in vain to pull her three children to safety after a gunman shot them during a confrontation inside the family’s home in w...
Dec 06, 2016
Mother settles JetBlue lawsuit after son flown to wrong city
NEW YORK - A New York City woman has agreed to settle her lawsuit against JetBlue Airways after it mixed up her 5-year-old son with another boy and flew him to the wrong city. Maribel Martinez’s...
Dec 06, 2016
Apple pays $450,000 for alleged hazardous waste violations
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple is paying $450,000 to settle allegations that the iPhone maker operated and closed two hazardous-waste processing plants without submitting the proper paperwork to California env...
Dec 06, 2016
After 9 years, quick conviction in Times Square hotel murder
NEW YORK - It took nearly a decade after a prostitute’s battered body was found under a Times Square budget hotel bed for the case to go to trial. But it took only about two hours for jurors to ...
Dec 06, 2016
Church attack survivor recalls loud noise, then darkness
CHARLESTON, S.C. - A survivor of last year’s massacre at a black South Carolina church testified Wednesday that her Bible study group had just closed their eyes and started praying when a loud s...
Dec 06, 2016
Snow geese deaths from mine pit number in the thousands
BUTTE, Mont. - Several thousand snow geese died after a snowstorm forced tens of thousands of the migratory birds to take refuge in the acidic, metal-laden waters of an old open pit mine in Montana la...
Dec 06, 2016
Utah to spend $138,000 to restore famous outlaw's cabin
CIRCLEVILLE, Utah - Utah state officials are going to spend $138,000 to restore a decaying wood cabin in Piute County that has become a tourist spot because it’s believed to be the boyhood home ...
Dec 06, 2016
3 in custody in robbery of wife of Missouri governor-elect
ST. LOUIS - Three teenagers are in custody in the armed robbery of the wife of Missouri Gov.-Elect Eric Greitens, and the former Navy Seal officer who takes office next month said Tuesday it’s a...
Dec 06, 2016
Some 14 Conservative leadership hopefuls crowd stage for debate in Moncton
MONCTON, N.B. - No fewer than 14 candidates crowded the stage in Moncton for the second official debate of the federal Conservative leadership race where they discussed a broad menu of issues ranging ...
Dec 06, 2016
Ruck wins bronze for Canada's first medal at world short-course swim champs
WINDSOR, Ont. - Canada captured its first medal of the FINA world short-course swimming championships Tuesday - then had its second medal unceremoniously snatched away. Taylor Ruck, a 16-year-old from...
Dec 06, 2016