South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while ...

The two Russian figure skating coaches killed in the American Airlines crash were two-time Olympians and former world ...

Another of our music legends has left for the great gig in the sky. Wednesday’s rainfall were tears from above as the beloved bear of a man, ...

I had been wanting a fountain for my back yard for a long time. I asked my son in Oklahoma City where I should go to look. He offered to ...

This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the Caribbean. The selection was curated by AP photo editor ...

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a contagious disease known as the “strangling ...

A jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald ...

A federal judge filed a last-minute order extending a court agreement ensuring protections for children in federal custody the day after it ended. The agreement will allow for the continued ...

The captain of an unauthorized tour boat is headed to prison after his vessel capsized in the Hudson River, killing a woman and a 7-year-old child. Prosecutors say Richard Cruz ...

The jurors in the landmark racketeering trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan and his longtime confidant deliberated for their first full day Thursday without reaching a verdict ...

An American woman who was tried in three killings before disappearing from a Mexican prison more than 50 years ago died in Canada, where she was living under an assumed ...

San Diego’s controversial crackdown on beach yoga classes has prompted a lawsuit from a teacher who say he’s still getting fined, even after he shifted his popular ...