Vegas shooter who killed 3 was a professor who recently applied for a job at UNLV, AP source says
LAS VEGAS — Terrified students and professors cowered in classrooms and dorms as a gunman roamed the floors of a…
Decades after Europe, turning blades send first commercial wind power onto US grid
NEW LONDON, Conn. — Off the coast of eastern Long Island, an 800-foot tall turbine has begun sending electricity onto…
Florida discontinues manatee winter feeding program after seagrass conditions improve
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A two-year experimental feeding program for starving Florida manatees will not immediately resume this winter as…
Defense head calls out those who advocate isolationism and ‘an American retreat from responsibility’
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday denounced those who advocate “an American retreat from responsibility” and…
BMW recalls SUVs after Takata air bag inflator blows apart, hurling shrapnel and injuring driver
DETROIT — BMW is recalling a small number of SUVs in the U.S. because the driver’s air bag inflators can…
Klete Keller, Olympic gold medalist swimmer, gets 6 months in home detention for Jan. 6 Capitol riot
WASHINGTON — Olympic gold medalist swimmer Klete Keller, who threw his USA team jacket in a trash can after he…
Georgia county seeking to dismiss lawsuit by slave descendants over rezoning of their island homes
SAVANNAH, Ga. — County commissioners in Georgia are asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit by Black residents descended…
Hundreds of thousands in North Carolina will be added to Medicaid rolls this week
RALEIGH, N.C. — A decade after the federal government began offering expanded Medicaid coverage in states that opted to accept…
Homicides are rising in the nation’s capital, but police are solving far fewer of the cases
WASHINGTON — Though it’s no longer the homicide capital of the United States, the nation’s capital is witnessing a multiyear…
Missouri governor granting pardons at pace not seen since WWII era
Distraught by a romantic breakup, 16-year-old Kenny Batson vented his hurt by stomping out the windshields of cars on a…