Scuba divers begin 6-month effort to rid Lake Tahoe of trash
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A team of scuba divers on Friday completed the first dive of a massive, six-month effort to rid the...
Forest Service delays logging project near Yellowstone park
<p>HELENA, Mont. — The U.S. Forest Service has delayed a proposed logging project just outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park that the agency...
Nepal’s ousted prime minister to head minority government
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nepal’s ousted prime minister, who lost a vote of confidence in Parliament earlier this week, will stay in office as the...
Videos show detail of death of inmate at South Carolina jail
COLUMBIA, S.C. — In newly released video of the January death of a South Carolina inmate with mental health issues, deputies are seen repeatedly...
‘Foot soldiers’ of Birmingham to BLM: ‘Keep on keeping on’
<p>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Charles Avery had barely started marching when police arrested him, forced him into a police vehicle and took him to jail...
Target suspends in-store sales of sports cards, cites safety
<p>MINNEAPOLIS — Target on Friday cited safety concerns in suspending in-store sales of sports and Pokemon trading cards, but made no mention of a...
Chicago cat fleeing fire survives 5-story jump, walks off
CHICAGO — A Chicago cat may now have eight lives after jumping out of a fifth-floor window Thursday afternoon to escape an apartment fire....
Idaho man killed by falling ice in Alaska national park
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A climber was killed and another was significantly injured when they were hit by a falling block of glacier ice in...
Court declares missing German billionaire dead after 3 years
<p>BERLIN — A German court on Friday officially declared billionaire Karl-Erivan Haub dead, more than three years after the head of retail group Tengelmann...
Misconduct could overturn conviction in fire that killed 5
<p>DETROIT — The murder conviction of a man who was accused of setting a fire that killed five children in suburban Detroit could be...