A small rented airplane crashed and burned shortly after takeoff Monday, killing all four college students aboard who were taking a sightseeing flight around Cleveland after the first day of classes.
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Searchers who fear there are more victims are looking for family members of a child who apparently drowned during a day at the beach along a reservoir west of Portland.
Police and school officials say a kindergarten student brought a loaded gun to a Pittsburgh-area school.
The U.S. has begun surveillance flights over Syria after President Barack Obama gave the OK, U.S. officials said, a move that could pave the way for airstrikes against Islamic State militant targets there.
Burger King struck an $11 billion deal to buy Tim Hortons that would create the world’s third largest fast-food company and could make the Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain more of a household name around the world.
The mourners filled an enormous church to remember Michael Brown — a “gentle giant,” aspiring rapper and recent high school graduate on his way to a technical college.
A soldier has died after barricading herself in an office and shooting herself inside a major command’s headquarters in Virginia.
Andrew Steele is a suspect in the killings of his wife and her sister, Kacee Tollefsbol, at the Steeles’ home in suburban Fitchburg, Wisconsin on Friday. Steele himself is being treated for an apparent suicide attempt that, police say, they never saw coming.
A judge in Wyoming sentenced a 75-year-old Missouri woman to life in prison on Monday for killing her husband with a rifle in the mid-1970s and throwing his body down the shaft of an abandoned gold mine, where it remained for nearly 40 years.
Hackers attacked Sony’s PlayStation Network and disrupted the travel plans of a top company executive by going on Twitter to suggest that there was a bomb on his American Airlines plane.
A kindergartner abducted from her school was missing for six hours before her family learned she was gone, witnesses testified Monday as a young woman’s kidnapping and sexual assault trial opened.
Crews working in steep terrain were building containment lines around a wildfire that chased people from about 200 homes near the California Gold Rush-era boomtown of Weaverville.
The largest earthquake to hit the San Francisco Bay Area in 25 years sent scores of people to hospitals, ignited fires, damaged multiple historic buildings and knocked out power to tens of thousands in California’s wine country on Sunday.
A pre-dawn stampede killed 10 people Monday at a Hindu temple in central India, a top police official said.
A suspect in a series of shootings that killed three people and four people within the span of an hour Sunday in the northern suburbs of Los Angeles was taken into custody following a standoff, police said.
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