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4 dead from storm as Isaias brings threat of floods across the Southeast
Despite warnings of life-threatening storm surges ahead of the storm, several major routes along the coast were op…
Obama's not a Muslim ... not that it matters
NEW YORK - "President Obama is a Muslim." "He's not an American citizen." "He wasn't even born here."
BP image still recovering from spill
WASHINGTON (AP) - BP's image, which took an ugly beating after the Gulf oil spill, is recovering since the company capped the well, though the oil giant's approval level is still anything but robust. A majority of …
GOP keeps slamming Obama on mosque
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican candidates around the country seized on President Barack Obama's support for the right of Muslims to build a mosque near ground zero, assailing him as an elitist who is insensitive to t…
Gulf surface cleaner; below, questions lurk
WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers are warning that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a bigger mess than the government claims and that a lot of crude is lurking deep…
If the election were today, who would get your vote for Congressional District 1?
Toddlers found in car in SC river
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) - After the bodies of two toddlers were pulled Monday from a car submerged in a South Carolina river, their mother was arrested and authorities were investigating how it happened - and whether…
Reid, Obama differ on ground zero mosque
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate's top Democrat on Monday came out against plans to build a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, moving away from President Barack Obama on the controversial election-…
DNA test may cast doubt on Jones' guilt
POINT BLANK, Texas (AP) - Claude Jones may have been wrongly executed for the 1989 slaying of a liquor store owner in this aptly named Texas town, but no one says he's an angel.
'Craigslist killing' suspect dead, likely suicide
BOSTON (AP) - Authorities say a former medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist apparently killed himself inside a Boston jail.
Charges dropped in Buffalo slayings
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A prosecutor dropped charges Sunday against a parolee initially accused of killing four people and wounding four others outside a downtown restaurant and said the real shooter appeared on surve…
Search still on for escaped inmate, accomplice
PHOENIX (AP) - The search for an Arizona prison inmate and a woman who helped him and two murder suspects escape is still focused on western Montana and the northwestern U.S. and Canada.
With BP spill under control, US looks at drill ban
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Now that the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history has effectively been stopped, the White House is considering an early end to its moratorium on deepwater drilling.
8 shot outside Buffalo restaurant
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Eight people leaving a party at a downtown Buffalo restaurant were shot early Saturday, four of them fatally, including a Texas man who had ret…
Visitors flock to Glacier
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK - A good year for Glacier National Park got better Thursday as the National Park Service reported another spike in the number of visitors.
Stealing their way across the country
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - An Arizona fugitive's accomplice was acting as a drug mule for a white supremacy group and agreed to become a police informant weeks before she helped him escape from prison, authorities said Fri…