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Business economists still expect U.S. economic growth to pick up next year — but they see a slowdown in hiring.

Three Ohio residents accused of giving alcoholic drinks to a puppy have been charged with misdemeanor cruelty to a companion animal after one of the defendants posted a picture of the passed-out dog on Facebook.

An off-duty correction officer has been fatally shot in New York City.

A man who said he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place fired an assault rifle inside the Washington, D.C., restaurant on Sunday injuring no one, police and news reports said.

The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting a 3.9 magnitude earthquake has struck northern Oklahoma.

A North Carolina man armed with an assault rifle was arrested Sunday inside a popular Washington D.C. restaurant that became a center of conspiracy theories driven by fake news stories that went viral before the presidential election.

The Latest on a deadly fire in a converted warehouse in Oakland, California (all times local): 3:45 p.m.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Sunday that it won't grant an easement for the Dakota Access oil pipeline in southern North Dakota.

North Carolina authorities say a teenager charged with killing his grandfather with a hatchet discussed the crime in advance with a still-unidentified person on a cellphone communications app.

First responders had recovered 30 bodies from the ruins of a Friday inferno at a converted Oakland warehouse known as the “Ghost Ship,” officials said Sunday, raising the death toll substantially from the initial report of nine deceased.

Tribal elders have asked the military veterans joining the large Dakota Access pipeline protest encampment not to have confrontations with law enforcement officials, an organizer with Veterans Stand for Standing Rock said Sunday, adding the group is there to help out those who've dug in against the four-state, $3.8 billion project.

The white man charged with the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church asked a judge on Sunday if he could have his defense team back, at least temporarily.

Police in State College are weighing possible arrests after the celebration of Penn State's Big Ten championship caused minor property damage.

A New Jersey woman has been charged with animal cruelty after someone posted a video of her throwing a cat out of a third-story window on social media.

The discovery of remains believed to be those of a missing Alaskan teen has led to the arrest of his friend on murder and kidnapping charges.

Pacific fishers have declined on the West Coast over the decades, but the forest-dwelling, weasel-like mammals are slowly making a comeback in Washington state.

Whether he's called Santa Claus, Father Christmas or Pere Noel, he had a slew of jolly, red-suited lookalikes hit the ski slopes on Sunday in Maine.

Police say a 68-year-old man has been found dead with his penis severed in a New York City bathroom and that a 32-year-old homeless man has been arrested in connection with his death.

In less than two months, 46 people have filed claims in a compensation program for people abused by Roman Catholic priests in New York.

Military veterans started to gather Sunday near the main Dakota Access pipeline protest camp, where they'll join the several hundred people who are against the four-state, $3.8 billion project that's largely complete.