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Authorities in Southern California said Sunday a 9-year-old girl lost her left hand and fingers on her right hand in an explosion that was likely caused by illegal fireworks.

Chicago police say two officers were injured when someone threw a firecracker at their squad car.

Authorities say a three-year-old boy has died after falling from the 13th floor of a New York City apartment building.

A man who tried to run over an officer as he attempted to drive into a crowded chicken wing festival on Sunday was shot to death after crashing his vehicle, police said.

A 44-year-old man is accused of driving drunk and sideswiping a police car at a traffic stop in northeast Louisiana, killing one officer and injuring two others early Sunday, officials said.

Florida Highway Patrol officials on Sunday revised the number people killed when a bus carrying Haitian farmworkers and a tractor-trailer collided in the Panhandle, putting the latest death toll at four.

The transit agency serving Philadelphia and its suburbs is warning regional rail riders of possible major disruptions in the days and weeks ahead after the company had to take about one-third of regional rail cars out of service due to a structural problem.

Officials believe an “explosive hobbyist” may have left behind the device that detonated when an 18-year-old man’s foot landed on it in New York’s Central Park on Sunday morning, creating a blast that resulted in a severe leg injury for the man.

The father of a toddler killed by an alligator at Disney last month told rescue officials two alligators were involved in the attack, according to emails from the Reedy Creek Fire Department.

Hundreds of pages of notes, emails and other documents shed light on the reporting and fallout of a now-discredited Rolling Stone magazine article about a rape at the University of the Virginia.

A Prescott couple's mobile shooting game will not be among the activities at a July Fourth celebration in Phoenix on Monday night.

Park officials say a grizzly bear that has previously charged at people has bitten and scratched a hiker, and they will kill the animal when they find it.

A drunk driver plowed into a police car at a traffic stop in northeast Louisiana early Sunday, killing one officer and injuring two others, Louisiana State Police said.

The father of a toddler killed by an alligator at Disney last month told rescue officials two alligators were involved in the attack.

Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel is being remembered at a private service in New York City.

The Latest on a private service held for Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who died at 87 (all times local): 1:45 p.m.

A Las Vegas collector is marking the Fourth of July with a rare find he stumbled upon--a copy of the Declaration of Independence produced in the 1830s.

Two young children and their father were shot to death early Saturday in a suburban Chicago home, according to a report.

The Latest on the wildfires burning in the U.S. West (all times local): 9:05 a.m.

Stan Kroenke couldn't wait to get his NFL team out of St. Louis six months ago, in part because of what his team's relocation application deemed to be a "struggling economy." He must not think the region is all bad: The billionaire is an investor in a proposed large-scale development along the Missouri River in St. Louis County.