FORESTVILLE, Calif. Northern California and Nevada braced for another powerful storm after getting lashed by downpours that flooded roads, homes and vineyards and toppled a storied giant sequoia. Parts of Northern California were soaked by more than a foot of rain over a 72-hour period that ended early Monday, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate […]

DALLAS A white Texas policeman was suspended without pay for 10 days, but will not be fired, after an incident in which he was caught on video wrestling a black woman and her daughter to the ground, Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald announced Monday. Fitzgerald said the officer, identified by department officials as William […]

CHARLESTON, S.C. The assault on Emanuel AME Church left a total of 12 victims: Nine who were killed that June night and three who survived the hail of bullets in the basement of the beautiful, historic structure in downtown Charleston. Now, after hearing testimony from relatives of those slain in the 2015 attack during a […]

WASHINGTON President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, is set to be questioned by his peers in a high-visibility Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing. Sessions is likely to stress his conservative legal credentials even as he works to persuade Democrats on the panel that he can be fair and even-handed as the […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. A legal journey that could mean life or death for the suspect in the Florida airport mass shooting has begun with appointment of a public defender to represent the Iraq war veteran blamed for killing five people and wounding six more. U.S. Magistrate Judge Alicia Valle told Esteban Santiago, 26, at a […]

LOS ANGELES Carrie Fisher’s death certificate confirms that the actress died of a heart attack, but it says more investigation is needed to try to determine the underlying cause. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health issued the death certificate in the name of Carrie Frances Fisher. It was obtained Monday by The Associated […]

WASHINGTON Now an elder statesman, Barack Obama is returning to Chicago where he launched his unlikely political career to tell Americans not to lose faith in their future, no matter what they think about their next president. Obama’s final speech as president, before thousands who will gather at McCormick Place, is his last chance to […]

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. Was he a dedicated Islamic radical who proudly proclaimed his commitment to jihad, unaware his words were secretly being recorded by the FBI? Or was he a misguided, mildly autistic teenager who didn’t understand what he was doing? A federal judge in New York is set to decide today how much prison […]