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Erin Jackson won her third World Cup speedskating gold of the season Saturday, taking the 500 meters in Norway.

Bob Lawton, the owner of the world's largest arcade, was a regular presence dressed in red suspenders and handing out free tokens to kids at Funspot until his death Nov. 11 at the age of 90.

After a sixyear moratorium on the death penalty because of a series of botched lethal injections, Oklahoma officials announced they would execute seven men in quick succession, leading some death penalty supporters to believe the state's executions would...

A Tennessee inmate will no longer face execution over the slayings of a mother and daughter more than 30 years ago because of claims that he is intellectually disabled, a prosecutor announced Thursday.

A former college professor was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for allegedly starting four wildfires in Northern California earlier this year that threatened to trap firefighters as they battled a massive fire nearby, federal prosecutors said.

Christine Sinclair and the bulk of the Canadian women's team that captured Olympic gold in Tokyo will be together for a pair of November matches at Mexico that will close off their season.

A 20yearold Nevada man who fled to Mexico before he was arrested and convicted of firstdegree murder in a 2019 fatal shooting at a Sparks regional park has been sentenced to life in prison.

California on Thursday dedicated a new $419 million research facility that will allow state air quality regulators expand emissions testing for heavy duty vehicles like trucks, buses and bulldozers.

Hundreds of Iraqis who had camped for weeks at Belarus' borders with the EU seeking to cross into the bloc flew back home on Thursday.

Manhattan's district attorney announced Wednesday that he would ask a court to vacate the convictions of two of the three men convicted of murdering civil rights leader Malcom X in 1965. Here is a timeline of key dates related to the assassination and th...

A man charged with killing 18 Dallasarea women told a police detective in a taped interview played at his murder trial Wednesday that less than an hour before his arrest, a man whose name he didn't know had sold him jewelry that a relative said belonged t...

Three members of the Sikh community affected by a mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility in April are seeking compensation from the city over claims that local officials failed to pursue a court hearing that could have prevented the shooter from...

The death toll in Canada from massive floods and landslides that devastated parts of British Columbia is set to rise, with the province declaring a state of emergency on Wednesday.

District administrators overreached when they permanently expelled a 17yearold high school student for sending Snapchat messages after school hours that referred to another student as a potential school shooter, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Wednes...

The players hoping to make Chinas mens hockey team for next years Beijing Olympics lost a second trial game against a Russian club on Wednesday as uncertainty builds over whether they will be allowed to play at the Winter Games.

Qari Baryal and his network have been known to facilitate the movement of weapons, explosives, and suicide bombers from the Pakistan border to Kabul.