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Hurricane Rachel strengthens to a Category 3 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast
AP picks 'Frozen' as entertainer of year
Actress Adams connects with Margaret Keane
Hacking target makes it theaters
Santa delivers to snowbound Yellowstone kids
Who hacked Sony becomes Internet's newest mystery
LOS ANGELES - Everyone has a theory about who really hacked Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
Drones have become popular holiday gifts
NEW YORK - Santa's sleigh isn't the only thing flying this holiday season.
Ice cream recalled due to potential contamination
SNOHOMISH, Wash. (AP) - Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream said it is voluntarily recalling nearly a year's worth of ice cream and related products because of possible listeria contamination.
Haven't we been here before?
WASHINGTON - Again? Really?
Final goodbye for celebs, politicians who died in 2014
They each turned a moment of violence into a call to action. For James Brady, that moment came when he was shot and wounded by a would-be presidential assassin. For Chung Eun-yong, it was the killings of his two ch…
Cards Against Humanity buys 6-acre Maine island
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Cards Against Humanity has purchased a 6-acre private island in Maine and is doling out 1-square-foot parcels to participants in its holiday fundraising campaign.
Convict in civil-rights deaths won't confess
PARCHMAN, Miss. - Craggy-faced and ornery, Edgar Ray Killen bears the signs of his 89 years. His hands are still scarred and rough from decades in the east Mississippi sawmills. He has a muscular build even as he m…
Police kill armed black man near St. Louis
BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) - The mayor of the St. Louis suburb of Berkeley called for calm Wednesday after a white police officer killed a black 18-year-old who police said pointed a gun at him. The shooting reignited tens…
Top stories of the year left public grasping for answers
Twenty-thousand feet down the answers may be waiting, hidden in some underwater canyon far off Australia's coast. But more than nine months after searchers began scouring the seas for a Malaysia Airlines jetliner t…
The cat's meow
PORTLAND, Ore. - Cats these days aren't associated with deities the way they were in ancient Egypt, but the Internet has gotten them a little closer.