U.S. News
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Former residents of a rundown, low-income California apartment building that caught fire and killed four people last month have filed a lawsuit against the building's owners and managers
April 26, 2017 -
A boy found doused in chemicals inside his father's pesticide truck while his dead twin sister decomposed in the back would receive the remainder of a $5 million settlement under a bill passed by Florida's lawmakers
April 26, 2017 -
Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown was either an entitled, corrupt politician who used a charity for poor kids to line her own pockets or a befuddled, aging lawmaker whose own trusted adviser betrayed her
April 26, 2017 -
A central Missouri man whose body likely was found in a crate encased in concrete in a dumpster might have been missing for months before the group home where he lived reported that he was gone, a sheriff said
April 26, 2017 -
A federal judge has struck down a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have permission to admit patients to a nearby hospital, citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision against a similar Texas law
April 26, 2017 -
US launches unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile in test of the weapon system
April 26, 2017 -
Police say an Ohio woman who was kidnapped and kept trapped in a small pit in her neighbor's shed had reported receiving harassing phone calls and text messages from him
April 26, 2017 -
Police say a Delaware state trooper who was shot outside a convenience store has died
April 26, 2017 -
Maine's Republican governor wants to make public the names of those who are hired to film undercover footage of animal cruelty
April 26, 2017 -
Visitors who ooh and ah at the Audubon Zoo's newest baby will be saying the little colobus monkey's name: Ua. That's "flower" in Swahili
April 26, 2017 -
Officials say a wildfire on public lands near the Georgia-Florida state line has blackened 115 square miles (298 sq. kilometers), having doubled in size since last weekend
April 26, 2017 -
Police in Michigan would no longer be legally allowed to have sex with prostitutes during undercover investigations under legislation making its way through the Legislature
April 26, 2017 -
A San Francisco-based renewable energy company wants Mississippi regulators to approve a $1.4 billion power transmission line that would carry electricity from wind generated in Texas to the Southeast
April 26, 2017 -
A prosecutor said he will not charge three police officers who shot a man 19 times, saying for the first time publicly that the man had a gun when he was killed
April 26, 2017 -
A startling new report asserts that the first known Americans arrived much, much earlier than scientists thought _ more than 100,000 years ago
April 26, 2017