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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The former police chief for the city of Oakland who was fired last week over the alleged cover-up of an officer’s…

By MARK DIDTLER Associated Press CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Noah Song threw and performed agility drills on a back outfield wearing Philadelphia…

By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada voters will decide whether to abolish slavery and involuntary…

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Russia launched a rescue ship on Friday for two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut whose original ride home sprang a…

By BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter’s path to the presidency is an oft-told story, especially by aspiring presidents…

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers are considering ending the state’s statute of limitations for when…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The sobbing father of a man convicted of killing eight people on a New York City bike path has…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A teenager has been charged as an adult in the case of Madison Brooks, a Louisiana State…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — The sandstorm being waged between New Jersey environmental officials and a defiant…

By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Republican National Committee has decided that the opening Republican…

HOLDEN, La. (AP) — Alicia Allain Schneider, a filmmaker and the wife of ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ star John Schneider, has died at the couple’s home…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ GOP-controlled Legislature has shown it’s likely to pass a bill eliminating the…

By GARY GERARD HAMILTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly two decades after his classic “Confessions” album, Usher is spilling more of…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A transgender woman has for the first time been selected to participate in the Puerto Rico Miss Universe contest held…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s top election official has dismissed concerns that the country’s cash shortage…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal wildlife officials on Wednesday announced a proposal to classify one of two…

By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Milan designers took a more modest turn on the second day of Milan Fashion Week of mostly…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ daily newspaper says organizers of a petition drive to recall Mayor LaToya Cantrell  are demanding $15,000…

By EDITH M. LEDERER and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has passed a nonbinding resolution…

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bill that would make South Carolina the 49th state with a hate crime…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The man who admitted to helping carry out a murder-for-hire plot engineered by a former New Jersey political consultant has…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California attorney general has opened a civil rights investigation into the Riverside…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Eleri Ward had Stephen Sondheim’s “Every Day a Little Death” stuck in her head. She recorded…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A section of a parking garage at a suburban Milwaukee shopping mall has collapsed. Three floors of the garage at Bayshore Mall…

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say the alligator that was rescued from a chilly lake in New York City over the…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian authorities have dissolved a decades-old pro-democracy group that participated in the peaceful protests which…