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Court documents show that a 15-year-old Tennessee girl who was allegedly kidnapped by her teacher had endured months of abuse by her mother
April 25, 2017 -
Jurors are deliberating the case of a former Northern Arizona University freshman charged with killing a fellow student and wounding three others near campus in 2015
April 25, 2017 -
The widely varying accounts of the first of Arkansas' double execution illustrate the risks that have made efforts to put more than one inmate to death in a day so rare
April 25, 2017 -
A handful of Wisconsin dairy farmers whose Canada market evaporated in a trade dispute were weighing offers from new buyers on Tuesday, but others were running out of time before an expiring contract risked putting them out of business
April 25, 2017 -
Louisiana senators are moving ahead with a bill to end executions in the state, a rare proposal in a Republican-controlled region that tends to favor capital punishment
April 25, 2017 -
A newly released document says officials spent less than 10 minutes inserting IV lines in the first inmate executed by Arkansas in a double execution Monday night
April 25, 2017 -
A body was found in a swollen North Carolina river by a crew cleaning storm debris, but it wasn't immediately clear if the death was caused by the storm
April 25, 2017 -
As curbside recycling has grown, environmentalists around the United States find themselves fighting to protect decades-old bottle recycling programs that critics say are becoming obsolete
April 25, 2017 -
A teenager who has been in and out of the hospital with mental health problems since the death of a friend in a massive fire the boys started was sentenced Tuesday to a year of probation
April 25, 2017 -
A Chicago Palestinian activist with a decades-old record of bombings in Israel pleaded guilty Tuesday to concealing those convictions when she applied for U.S. citizenship
April 25, 2017 -
Portland residents are weathering a wet and bleak season that rivals Seattle
April 25, 2017 -
Michigan is poised to join a growing list of states that are making it a crime to attack aircraft with lasers, which endanger pilots and passengers
April 25, 2017 -
A moratorium on executions in Oklahoma should be extended until major changes are made to the state's capital punishment system so that an innocent person isn't put to death, a state commission recommended on Tuesday
April 25, 2017 -
Scientists created an artificial womb enough like mom's to help tiny lambs grow for a month _ boosting hopes that it might one day help extremely premature babies
April 25, 2017 -
The mayor of a city in western Michigan is working on a plan to review police procedures after body cameras recorded officers detaining five black boys at gunpoint while investigating a report of someone with a weapon
April 25, 2017