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Commuters navigated a patchwork of cars, trains and buses along Connecticut's shoreline Monday, encountering lengthy delays as authorities probed the cause of a...

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A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting...

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For the first time, Utah police said they believe Susan Powell's brother-in-law was "heavily involved" in getting rid of her body.

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A van carrying 11 men returning from a California religious gathering careened off of a southern Illinois freeway and overturned several times Monday, killing five...

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Complaining that Jodi Arias' sensational murder case has become a modern-day "witch trial," her lawyers tried to quit in the middle of the death-penalty phase...

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Thousands marched the streets of Manhattan Monday to protest the killing of a gay man allegedly taunted with homophobic slurs _ the most recent in a spate of bias...

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A federal judge must now decide whether the nation's largest police force has been unjustly stopping black and Hispanic men under a polarizing tactic known as stop,...

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A list of the 10 deadliest tornadoes in the United States since 1900:

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Wildlife officials say a Burmese python nearly 19 feet long has been captured in South Florida.

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A Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after allegedly lying about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker asked to be released on bond Monday.

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A man has been charged with a Los Angeles-area bank robbery last summer in which his girlfriend _ an assistant bank manager _ reported being forced to wear what she...

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An Alaska volcano eruption is prompting regional airlines to cancel flights to nearby communities, including a town that reported traces of fallen ash.

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Deadly tornadoes that have raked communities in Middle America over the past week, including Monday's massive twister that carved a path of destruction through the...

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A rare and tiny island fox is on the verge of making a comeback from near-extinction in the Channel Islands, a rugged and wind-swept chain off Southern California,...

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A devastated father said Monday he had no idea why gunmen targeted his house, firing a barrage of bullets that killed his 10-year-old daughter as she watched TV...

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L.L. Bean's grandson Leon Gorman is retiring as chairman of the outdoors retailer after more than a half-century as the company's chairman or CEO, but the privately...

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