SHOW LOW, Ariz. (AP) — A police officer was fatally shot outside a fast-food restaurant in eastern Arizona, and authorities identified a suspect and moved to make an arrest. There was no immediate word on a motive or how the shooting occurred in the town of in Show Low, but the 36-year-old suspect was reportedly […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts evangelist will ask a federal judge to reject a lawsuit that accuses him of waging a long campaign to persecute gays in Uganda. An East African gay advocacy group filed the lawsuit in 2012 against minister Scott Lively under a statute that allows non-citizens to file U.S. court actions […]

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A jury is still weighing murder charges against a Georgia man whose toddler son died after being left for hours in a hot car. Jurors are scheduled to resume deliberations for a second day Wednesday in the trial of Justin Ross Harris. He was charged with malice murder and other crimes […]

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Hershey has come to the rescue of a college student who had his Kit Kat bar brazenly stolen. Kansas State University student Hunter Jobbins tells The Wichita Eagle he left his car unlocked with a Kit Kat in the cup holder last month before running into his dorm building. When he […]

WASHINGTON Republicans held onto their slim Senate majority today, a stinging blow to Democrats in a night full of them. Democrats had been nearly certain of retaking control but saw their hopes fizzle as endangered GOP incumbents won in Missouri, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and even Democratfriendly Wisconsin. GOP-held New Hampshire remained too close to call […]

NEW YORK Thanksgiving Day shopping — a delight to some, an anathema to others — isn’t going away, but some stores are rethinking their strategies on whether it makes sense to be open on the holiday itself. Many of the nation’s major mall operators and the big retailers that anchor them, such as Toys R […]

AZUSA, Calif. A gunman was on a cocaine binge when he randomly opened fire Tuesday in a peaceful Southern California neighborhood, killing a 77-year-old neighbor and wounding two women at random before police shot him, authorities said. The 45-year-old man was found dead in the entryway to an Azusa home, ending an hours-long standoff east […]

NEW YORK A former home health aide rolled her eyes and insisted she wasn’t guilty as she was charged Tuesday with shoving a woman onto the subway tracks under Times Square, killing her. Prosecutors said Melanie Liverpool had confessed to killing 49-year-old Connie Watton, of Queens, but she rebuffed the claim at her arraignment on […]

A judge announced Tuesday that he has ordered another competency exam for a white man charged with killing nine black parishioners at a Charleston church one day after halting jury selection because of a motion from defense attorneys. The exam for Dylann Roof is underway and should be finished by next week. Federal Judge Richard […]

LONDON The world faces a starkly different America led by a President Donald Trump. While the billionaire businessman’s election was welcomed in some countries, others saw it as a big shock, as governments will now have to deal with a man who has cozied up to Vladimir Putin, told NATO allies they would have to […]