An attorney says survivors and family members of people who died in a massive 2014 landslide north of Seattle have reached a settlement with a timber company that logged an area above the site of the collapse.
A growing number of U.S. cities and states moved to downplay Columbus Day -- a federal holiday -- in favor of the rebranded Indigenous Peoples' Day, to honor what Vermont's governor called the "sacrifice and contributions of the First Peoples of this land."
Authorities in Florida say a parks and recreation department worker was shocked and burned when he touched a power line while cutting trees while cleaning up after Hurricane Matthew.
Chicago teachers and officials in the nation's third-largest school district still were holding contract negotiations Monday in hopes of averting a strike that would affect 400,000 students.
Two Southern California officers were shot and killed over the weekend, allegedly by a gang member "acting crazy" and intending to shoot police, according to his father.
Authorities say a Connecticut woman saved her 7-year-old daughter's life by pushing her out of the way moments before she was struck and killed in a hit-and-run.
