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Updated at 10:49 a.m. ET. MOUNT VERNON, Wash. A truck hauling a too-tall load hit an overhead girder of a bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below, though ...
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GREENVILLE, Calif. -- An earthquake in far northeastern California did not injure anyone but did cause moderate damage, including to a water tank that supplies hundreds of homes with drinking water, local authorities said Friday.
Candidate Barack Obama in 2008 called for closing the terrorist detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. New President Barack Obama in 2009 pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - President Obama used a commencement speech before Naval Academy graduates on Friday to urge them to follow an “inner compass” and to warn that rising numbers of sexual assaults in the military threatened to erode America's faith ...
If you think Hurricane Sandy provided a once-and-done event for the Jersey Shore, maybe you'll want to think again, a leading hurricane forecaster says in its annual outlook issued May 23.
As you watch the horrific aftermath of the tornado in Oklahoma play out on television and reach into your wallet to make a donation, do you know where that money is actually going?
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The chilling screams of students and teachers can be heard on a newly released audio recording, which was made as a killer tornado swept through Briarwood Elementary School in Oklahoma City.
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - New Jersey rolled out some of its big guns Friday to proclaim that the shore is back following Superstorm Sandy, using Gov.
Back in the day: Harry Sonntag, a re-enactor from Philadelphia and a paramedic, demonstrates the amputation process for a crowd on a mannequin at a Gettysburg Civil War re-enactment.
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GRAPEVINE, Texas—The Boy Scouts of America decided to allow gay youth to openly join its ranks, reversing a long-standing ban. Scouts for Equality founder Zach Wahls discusses the decision by the Boy Scouts of America to vote to allow gay youths as ...
A bail hearing is scheduled for a Philadelphia couple who believe in faith healing over medicine and are charged with third-degree murder in the April death of their 8-month-old son.
Go ahead and shake your head in disbelief. But yes, a new poll is out in Iowa - for 2016 - and I'm writing about it. Order Reprints.
BOSTON (AP) - Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is lending his political clout to fellow Democrat Edward Markey in the state's special U.S.
Just over a month after Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed during a standoff with police, investigators said they have begun to piece together a picture of what he did during a six-month visit last year to Dagestan, a volatile region ...
TRENTON, N.J. - At one bar, a mixture that included rubbing alcohol and caramel coloring was sold as scotch. In another, premium liquor bottles were refilled with water - and apparently not even clean water at that.
(CNN) -- A day after a jury deadlocked on whether Jodi Arias should be sentenced to death for the murder of her ex-boyfriend, the jury foreman described the decision process as tense and emotional.
The review ordered by President Obama into the Justice Department's policies on pursuing reporters' records could have Attorney General Eric Holder effectively reviewing his own actions.
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