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PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — Eight people were found dead Friday at four crime scenes in rural Ohio, and at least most of them were shot…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 170 countries are lining up to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change Friday as the landmark deal takes…

PALMETTO, Fla. (AP) – A retired police dog in Florida is recovering after being bitten by an alligator that so far is eluding capture. Chris…

TEMPERANCE, Mich. (AP) – A Michigan teen who has made annual treks carrying his younger brother on his back to raise awareness about cerebral palsy…

  The Associated Press Harriet Tubman will replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, a Treasury Department official said Wednesday. The official did not give…

  MONTECRISTI, Ecuador (AP) — A fresh tremor rattled Ecuador before dawn Wednesday, a magnitude-6.1 magnitude jolt that set babies crying and adults pouring into…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Earth’s record monthly heat streak has hit 11 months in a row – a record in itself. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

HOUSTON (TNS) — A storm that hit Houston this week caused the city’s worst flooding in 15 years and left five people dead, officials said. More…

TOWANDA, Pa. (AP) — Jami Patel spends long hours behind the front desk of a nearly empty motel, desperate for someone, anyone, to check in….

MILFORD, Pa. (AP) — A judge postponed a hearing Tuesday for a man charged with ambushing two troopers outside a Pennsylvania State Police barracks after…

NEW YORK (AP) – Amazon is taking on Netflix and Hulu with its own stand-alone video streaming service, just weeks before Netflix raises prices for…

MANTA, Ecuador (AP) — Rescuers in Ecuador pulled three people out alive after being trapped for more than 32 hours in the rubble of a…

HARRISBURG (AP) – Pennsylvania is becoming the 24th state to legalize a comprehensive and public medical marijuana program after Gov. Tom Wolf signs legislation Sunday….

PEDERNALES, Ecuador (AP) — The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast, sending the Andean nation…

MASHIKI, Japan (AP) — Army troops and other rescuers rushed Saturday to try to reach scores of trapped residents after a pair of strong earthquakes…

By RILEY YATES and PAMELA LEHMAN The (Allentown) Morning Call ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Travis Mohr found sobriety after heroin came close to taking his life. Every…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says a record 155 countries will sign the landmark agreement to tackle climate change at a ceremony at…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A 17-year-old was raped by a man with whom she had been drinking and her 18-year-old female friend live-streamed the attack…

HARRISBURG (AP) – Pennsylvania is set to become the latest state to legalize medical marijuana as the Legislature sent a bill to the governor on…

WARREN, Ohio (AP) — The remains of a Pennsylvania-born soldier declared missing during the Korean War are being returned to northeast Ohio 65 years later,…

HARRISBURG (AP) – For the second time in less than a year, the Pennsylvania Senate passed medical marijuana legislation Tuesday, and backers hope the House…

DENVER (AP) — Garden-care giant Ortho said Tuesday that it will stop using a class of chemicals widely believed to harm bees as concerns rise…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former U.S. poet laureate, winners of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, and best-selling authors including John Grisham are…

NEW DELHI (AP) – The world’s count of wild tigers roaming forests from Russia to Vietnam has gone up for the first time in more…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The cost of mailing a letter is going down. Starting today, the price of a first-class stamp drops two cents, to 47 cents….

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – SpaceX resumed station deliveries for NASA on Friday, and in a double triumph, successfully landed its booster rocket on an…

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The fatal shooting of two people at an Air Force base in Texas appears to be a murder-suicide, authorities said Friday….

STOCKHOLM (AP) – Ever felt like calling up a complete stranger in Sweden? Now is your chance. The Swedish Tourist Association has set up a…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Endangered salmon blocked for nearly a century from hundreds of miles of the Klamath River in Oregon and California are expected…

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The first Syrian family to be resettled in the U.S. under a speeded-up “surge operation” for refugees left Jordan on Wednesday…

BOSTON (AP) — Public safety officials have outlined a tight security plan for the Boston Marathon three years after two bombs inside backpacks exploded near…

HARRISBURG (AP) – Pennsylvania Turnpike officials say they are looking for ways to better manage commercial traffic during weather emergencies following the massive snowstorm this…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Tuesday took steps to strengthen protections for captive tigers held in backyards and private breeding facilities. The Fish…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden says young people must keep working to “change the culture” to combat sexual assault at schools and college…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Governments around the world tried Tuesday to contain the fallout from the publication of thousands of names of rich and powerful…

HARRISBURG (AP) – A Republican-crafted bill that would place new limits on abortion has cleared a Pennsylvania legislative committee Monday, three days after the amendments…

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer on Monday called on the federal Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California and New York acted Monday to gradually push their statewide minimum wages to $15 an hour — the highest in…

BOSTON (AP) — Dozens of items belonging to James “Whitey” Bulger will be auctioned off in June to raise money for the families of people…

NEW YORK (AP) – Stung by setbacks related to their access to public restrooms, transgender Americans are taking steps to play a more prominent and…

BRUSSELS (AP) — A Brussels Airlines plane heading to the Portuguese city of Faro took off from Brussels Airport on Sunday, the first passenger flight…

NEW YORK (AP) — A bull that escaped from a holding area and darted through the streets of New York City has been captured and…

HAWTHORNE, Calif. (AP) — It’s the car thousands of people were waiting for: Tesla Motors’ new, lower-priced Model 3 sedan. Tesla unveiled the Model 3…

NEW YORK (AP) — Google is acknowledging that it pranked itself after an April Fool’s Day Gmail tweak angered some people who use Google’s email…

The Associated Press Virginia State Police say a trooper has died after a shooting at a Greyhound bus station in Richmond. Police Superintendent Col. Steven…

HANOVER (AP) – A baby bald eagle has died, just days after its hatching was livestreamed over a Pennsylvania Game Commission website. The game commission…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A gunman shot a Virginia state trooper Thursday at a busy bus terminal in the capital city of Richmond before he…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia State Police say two troopers responding to a shooting at a Richmond bus station and a civilian have been taken…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh television station WTAE said it has ended its relationship with anchorwoman Wendy Bell over racial comments she posted on Facebook about…

NEW YORK (AP) — It was a spectacular discovery: Fossil remains in an Indonesian cave revealed a recent relative of modern humans that stood about…