Girl dies after falling from North Shore cliff
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say a 14-year-old girl has died after falling from a cliff on the North Shore of Lake Superior.
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say a 14-year-old girl has died after falling from a cliff on the North Shore of Lake Superior.
ATLANTA (AP) — The nation's busiest airport canceled about 800 flights Monday as a weakened Irma moved from Florida into Georgia, where the governor had declared an emergency a day earlier for the entire state.
It doesn't take much to upend many Americans' finances. A car that won't start, a furnace that dies or a trip to the hospital can leave households struggling to make ends meet.
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Officials in an Ohio city are investigating a string of fires after four vacant houses burned in eight days.
Volunteer knitters sought to help make hand-made breast protheses for women.
ROME (AP) — Italian prosecutors are awaiting DNA results in the probe of a pair of paramilitary policemen alleged to have raped two U.S. students in Florence after driving them home in their patrol car from a disco.
The NFL is asking a federal appeals court to review a judge's decision blocking the league's six-game suspension of Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott in a domestic violence case.
NEW YORK (AP) — US stocks are jumping Monday, following global markets higher, after Hurricane Irma weakened without causing as much damage as many had feared. Travel companies and insurers are also rising.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey Devils have signed defenseman Damon Severson to a six-year, $25 million contract that will keep him with the team through the 2022-23 season.
MENORCA, Spain (AP) — Locals say Menorca can be reduced to three words: water, fire and stone.
NEW YORK (AP) — Mariah Carey's many collaborations with rap artists will be celebrated at the 2017 VH1 Hip Hop Honors.
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The buses starting rumbling in around the usual time on a cool but sunny, Friday, Sept. 1, the first day of school at De Soto Middle/High School. The level of excitement was ramping up in the building as children climbed…
NEW YORK (AP) — Though damage from Hurricane Irma is extensive, property insurers are breathing a sigh of relief with the storm nowhere near as catastrophic as many had feared.
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis has sharply criticized climate change doubters, saying history will judge those who failed to take the necessary decisions to curb heat-trapping emissions blamed for the warming of the Earth.
CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were higher Mixed Monday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade.
The BRF Tigers football has a had a rough go of the season so far as it searches for a win.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A suburban Pittsburgh woman is accused of stabbing her 8-day-old son and the baby's father, and police say she told them God made her do it because the baby was created "by the devil."
HAVANA (AP) — With ports mended and weather cleared, Caribbean officials struggled to get aid to islands devastated by Hurricane Irma on Monday and tried to take full stock of the damage caused by the Category 5 storm.
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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis is urging President Donald Trump to rethink his decision to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation, saying anyone who calls himself "pro-life" should keep families together.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — With five months to go before the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics open, the Games are barely an afterthought for most South Koreans, with slow local ticket sales amid the biggest political scandal in years and a…
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Kristen Bell says she's "singing in a hurricane" while riding out Irma in Florida.
BANGKOK (AP) — Pointing to the ashes of a destroyed village that was once home to dozens of Rohingya Muslim families, the abbot of a nearby Buddhist monastery insisted he knew who had set it ablaze. It was the Rohingya…
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Islamic extremist fighters killed four Somali government soldiers and briefly took a town near the border with Kenya Monday, a military official said.