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Hurricane Maria passed through the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Croix and the small Caribbean island of Vieques on its way toward Puerto Rico Wednesday. There has been limited access to reports from both islands, leaving ma...

BOSQUEVILLE, Texas -- Authorities say a 10-year-old Central Texas girl has died after she horse she was leading kicked her in the head. McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara says the girl's neck was broken in Monday n...

Authorities were unable to find a body when Metra Milwaukee District-West Line trains were stopped Tuesday afternoon after a train was thought to have hit a pedestrian on the West Side, authorities said. The pedestrian w...

Video released by Rosemont police seemed to solve at least part of the Kenneka Jenkins mystery. The surveillance recordings depict Jenkins, 19, staggering alone through a kitchen of the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel ...

Letgo There are dozens of ways to sell your used stuff these days. But an app called Letgo wants to overtake services like Craigslist and Facebook to become the go-to destination for buying and selling used products. In ...

EPA will not renew current lease and job postings unclear for local scientists.

(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) — One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit Puerto Rico pummeled the island Wednesday, tearing off roofs and sending doors flying from hinges as officials warned Hurricane Maria would decimate...

Senate Republicans, abandoning a key fiscal doctrine, agreed to move ahead on a budget that would add to the federal deficit in order to pave the way for a $1.5 trillion tax cut.

A British adventurer who had been on a solo kayaking trip through the Amazon was shot dead by pirates, police have confirmed.

A North Korean defector has told of Kim Jong-un's teen sex slaves, lavish caviar lunches and gory public executions. Hee Yeon Lim, 26, is the daughter of a high-ranking soldier from Pyongyang and a member of the regime's...

A former nurse's assistant at Elmhurst senior living facility was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to stealing thousands of dollars worth of items, including jewelry, according to p...

NASA-NOAA GOES Hurricane Maria's pathis similar to the track Hurricane Irma took on its devastating journey through the Caribbean just two weeks ago. But Maria is unlikely to follow Irma's trail to Florida. And meteorolo...

US home sales declined 1.7 percent in August, dragged down by Hurricane Harvey and sales listing shortage

A former substitute high school chemistry teacher from Michigan is accused of having sex with a teen student, and sending him lurid snaps over social media, according to local reports. Allyson Brittany Moran, 26, formerl...

A Michigan woman accused of raping a man at knifepoint may dodge prison after pleading no contest to lesser charges. Lestina Marie Smith was 17 when she allegedly raped a then-19-year-old man inside his car and threatene...

Hurricane Maria left a trail of "widespread destruction" on the small island of Dominica on Tuesday, then took aim at the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico as a potentially catastrophic ­Category 5 storm. With 165-mph w...

Initially, Ricardo Ramos thought it was a drill when the ground began to shake on Tuesday. This was the day for it, after all.

Agents took an unusually tough approach in executing a search warrant.

Guggenheim Partners' billionaire co-founder Mark Walter is considering stepping down from his post as CEO, according to reports. Walter is considering forming a holding company that would house one of Guggenheim's insura...

They shouldn't have been so close to the bodyguards' fists.

The second major earthquake to strike Mexico in less than two weeks has caused catastrophic damage in the country's capital. The magnitude 7.1 temblor started at around 1:15PM -- cracking highways, collapsing buildings, ...

The company is acquiring Silver Spring Networks for $830 million, its second acquisition this year.