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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Engineers began pumping heavy drilling mud into the blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well Tuesday in what they think is their best chan...

MANCHESTER, Conn. (AP) — Police say a driver at a beer warehouse was being escorted from the property after a disciplinary hearing when he started sho...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two-a-days and wind sprints. Lugging heavy playbooks and checking into dorms. As NFL teams get going this weekend, take a long, hard l...

CINCINNATI — A year after they were featured on HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” the Bengals have scripted their own reality show. T.O. and Ocho. Two self-conscio...

ALBANY (AP) — The New York Legislature may end up responsible for the latest budget in state history after all. Senate leader John Sampson on Tuesday ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Crews were working Monday to restore electricity to thousands after powerful storms barreled through the nation’s capital and downed...

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A new temporary memorial has opened in western Pennsylvania at the site where Flight 93 crashed during the 2001 terror attacks...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — "Rubbin', son, is racin'," or so said Harry Hogge to a worldwide audience in the summer of 1990, when NASCAR was a niche, regio...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A California man known for his anger over left-leaning politics said after a freeway shootout with CHP officers that he had bee...

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — MacFawn's Green Rides has taken to the streets of downtown Frederick, offering tourists and patrons an unusual way to see the ci...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa tea party group on Wednesday replaced a billboard comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin,...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Laser technology will be used to record four of Madison County's six remaining covered bridges for historical reference and so...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — David Ortiz believes his power swing is all the way back. After a big finish in the Home Run Derby, Boston's beloved slugger ha...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Two-time Olympian Rau'shee Warren has been torn between cash and country since a demoralizing defeat at the 2008 Beijin...

CHICAGO (AP) — An ordinance allowing Chicago residents to own handguns took effect Monday, two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court made the city's outr...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lost his skepticism of mixed martial arts when he saw everything that the sport and the UFC have done for Nevada. He...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When state budget cuts imperiled city schools, a group of parents fought back by enlisting Hollywood stars to spread a message targ...

DALY CITY, Calif. (AP) — There was a time when the Cow Palace, a cavernous exposition hall built near San Francisco's old beef slaughterhouses, was a ...