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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Their names became well known due to their crimes — a school shooter, a lawyer convicted of killing his wife and son, two mothers who killed toddlers.

James Wilson Jr., Alex Murdaugh, Susan Smith and ...Read more

The lush coffee trees that blanket the misty hills of the Huila region in southwestern Colombia bear witness to a struggle.

From bean to steaming cup, women are slowly making gains across the South American country’s ...Read more

Derrin Robinson has worked in Oregon elections for more than 30 years, long enough to remember when voters in the state cast their ballots at physical polling sites instead of by mail.

As the nonpartisan clerk of Harney ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As California again delays controversial rules requiring homeowners in fire-prone areas to maintain a 5-foot “ember-resistant” zone around their houses, a new report finds that properties that were...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The water that flows down irrigation canals to some of the West’s biggest expanses of farmland comes courtesy of the federal government for a very low price — even, in some cases, for free.

In a new ...Read more

A shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island has left two people dead and nine injured, with a manhunt underway for the attacker.

The shooting occurred in a classroom on the second day of final exams for the...Read more

Two people were killed and eight were injured in a shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said Saturday. The attacker was still at large.

The shooting occurred on the second day of ...Read more

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department announced Saturday that it’s deploying extra cops to local universities in response to the deadly mass shooting at Brown University.

The Police Department said there was no ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two men linked to a Downey residence that authorities say was a smuggling hub for Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel faced sentencing this year before a federal judge.

One appeared last week in a Sacramento ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The dreaded norovirus — the "vomiting bug" that often causes stomach flu symptoms — is climbing again in California, and doctors warn that a new subvariant could make even more people sick this season. ...Read more

Tens of thousands of Hungarians took to the streets on Saturday as a video depicting abuse at a state-run juvenile facility added to pressure on Prime Minister Viktor Orban four months before elections.

Protesters marched...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Air Pollution Control District’s (APCD) governing board voted unanimously Thursday to expand its air purifier distribution program for South County residents affected by cross-border ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — An Ecuadorian man was arrested Friday at a coffee shop in Brooklyn Park after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents summoned him to the parking lot in a ruse to get him outside.

The man was a cook at ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Three people were pronounced dead on the scene after a Plymouth minivan sped through a red light in Panorama City, crashing into a Ford Mustang and a Honda Civic on Friday night, the Los Angeles police said...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Around 1:30 a.m. on a Saturday last month, two masked men approached a black Cadillac Escalade idling outside a Northridge apartment building.

One held a shotgun, the other a handgun. A surveillance system...Read more

CHICAGO — The gate around 7500 South Shore Drive sat open Thursday, the buzzer system needed to access the building unnecessary. The front door was open, plexiglass falling out of the metal frame, the only brace against ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Immigration and Customs Enforcement waited at the Boise Airport to pick someone up, two local lawyers told the Idaho Statesman. For two days this week, ICE agents were present at the Canyon County ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Councilman John Lee repeatedly violated the city's gift laws in 2016 and 2017, accepting freebies during a lavish trip to Las Vegas and at multiple restaurants in L.A., a judge said in a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Somali American college students are carrying passports and IDs to class as fear spreads across Twin Cities campuses amid intensified ICE activity and inflammatory political rhetoric.

While some colleges ...Read more