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Drenching storms pounded the Midwest over the weekend, forcing search crews to rescue stranded drivers and pedestrians during flash flood emergencies.

Moving from being envious to being inspired and motivated is a very big step in a much better direction.

A teenager who vanished from Myrtle Beach in 2009 was repeatedly raped in a gang “stash house” for several days – then she was shot dead and fed to alligators when her disappearance generated too much media attention, the FBI said last week.

A judge has certified a 15-year-old Texas boy to stand trial as an adult in the fatal stabbing and strangling of his mother at their Houston-area home.

Jason Lewis is making the work of opposition researchers irrelevant for one of the nation's most contested congressional races.

Record visitor numbers at the nation's first national park have transformed Yellowstone National Park's annual tourist rush into a sometimes dangerous frenzy.

Andy Savage keeps in his law office a sealed plastic bag with the blood-splattered clothes that Felicia Sanders wore sheltering her granddaughter from a fusillade of bullets that killed nine black parishioners at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church.

A Michigan woman and her two sons fought off a masked intruder trying to break into their home when one of the boys grabbed a samurai sword and swung it at the man, Fox 17 West Michigan reports.

Friends and colleagues who knew two nuns killed in their Mississippi home are gathering Sunday to remember them, as authorities continue to investigate the harrowing crime that shocked people in the small communities where the women committed their lives to helping the poor.

Authorities say a man took his own life at an eastern Ohio courthouse moments after he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Some mistakes are never too late to fix.

A suburban Philadelphia couple were beaten to death by their own son in their New Jersey home, authorities said Saturday.

Residents of this small an dusty hamlet range from bemused to skeptical as they watch a 1.4-mile stretch of the border fence being rebuilt to imposing new specifications, with many saying the nearly $12 million project is unlikely to stem the tide of illegal immigrants they find under their trailers, in their backyards or wandering through town.

After threatening to sue, the Chicago Tribune has obtained data from the city's police department that tracks every time an officer has opened fire in the city over the past six years.

The Border Patrol says it's arrested two men they believe tried to smuggle $3 million in cash into Mexico from California.

A man suspected in the slayings of two nuns found dead in their Mississippi home confessed to the killings, a sheriff said Saturday, in the latest twist to a crime that has horrified people in the small communities where the women served.

Authorities say a man took his own life at an eastern Ohio courthouse moments after he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Some mistakes are never too late to fix.

Two federal agencies say they won't try to block the city of New Orleans' attempt to remove a monument to an 1874 white supremacist revolt against Louisiana's federally-backed post-Civil War government.

Max Ritvo, a poet who chronicled his long battle with cancer in works that were both humorous and searing, has died. He was 25.