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Smoke from dozens of wildfires burning across the Southeast has people coughing and wheezing, even in places like Atlanta that are far from the flames.

A Seminole County, Fla., judge has denied bail for 27-year-old Kristen De Pasquale.

The Latest on the search for a missing family in Washington state (all times local): 9:45 a.m.

A 50-state examination by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that only one — Delaware — has anything close to a comprehensive set of laws protecting patients from doctors who commit acts of sexual abuse.

An Alabama father who shot and killed his daughter’s sexual abuser pleaded guilty Monday and accepted a 40-year prison sentence in the hopes of sparing his daughter from having to relive the experience through a lengthy trial.

Authorities on Thursday were investigating the cause of a gas explosion that rocked downtown homes and businesses in a central Illinois community, shattering glass and cracking interior walls in nearby buildings and killing one person and injuring several others.

A suspect was being questioned at a Manhattan station house Wednesday evening in connection with the murder of a Connecticut man who was killed at a posh apartment paid for by a jeweler to the stars, sources said.

A white plane spotted over the Denver metro area Wednesday morning left many wondering where it came from and where it was going.

Bay Area police say five girls ages 14, 15 and 16 have been arrested as suspects in at least 20 strong-arm and attempted robberies.

After a 14-year-old shot and killed a six-year-old student on the grounds of an elementary school, a South Carolina lawmaker is drafting legislation that would allow teachers to take up arms.

The Latest on the trial of a former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist (all times local): 10:45 a.m.

The Coast Guard says it's received reports of a whale near the Statue of Liberty.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is issuing a rallying cry to conservatives in the wake of newfound strength following Donald Trump's election.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay $264.4 million in fines to federal authorities to settle charges that it hired friends and relatives of Chinese officials in order to gain access to banking deals in that country.

A Minnesota man described as a leader of a group of nine who plotted to travel to Syria to fight for the Islamic State group was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday by a federal judge who said he didn't believe the man's tearful apologies and words of contrition.

The long-running drought in much of the Northeastern United States is expected to persist through the winter.

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A Pennsylvania man awaiting trial on child pornography charges is now accused of bringing a boy to a home where he and a friend assaulted the 9-year-old.

San Francisco's public schools have been offered a classroom lesson plan that calls President-elect Donald Trump a racist, sexist man who became president "by pandering to a huge racist and sexist base."

Georgia authorities say an autopsy found a man who was fatally shot during a foot chase with a Savannah police officer may have killed himself.