Materials companies led U.S. stock indexes slightly lower Monday afternoon as the market eased back from a two-day streak of record highs. Utilities and health care stocks were among the big decliners. Energy stocks were up the most, even as crude oil prices closed lower.
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Alameda County district attorney says she has filed 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter against two men in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire that killed three dozen people in December in Oakland, California.
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President Donald Trump will return to Ohio on Wednesday to make what is being billed as a major policy speech on paying for infrastructure on the inland waterways, the White House announced today.
SAN JOSE, California — Apple nodded to several up-and-coming technology trends, unveiling new device features touching on virtual reality, online privacy and a form of artificial intelligence called machine learning.
LOS ANGELES — A firefighter died today from injuries suffered in a fall from an aerial ladder during weekend training in downtown Los Angeles, the Fire Department said.
OAKLAND, Calif. — A man who illegally rented out space in an Oakland, California, warehouse that caught fire and killed 36 people has been arrested and will be charged with involuntary manslaughter along with the organizer of a party at the site, a source close to the investigation told The Associated Press today.
LAS VEGAS — A publicist for Jerry Lewis says the comedian is recovering after being treated at a Las Vegas hospital for a urinary tract infection.
British police have identified two of the three men behind Saturday night's terror attack in London as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane.
LAS VEGAS — The much-anticipated Sept. 16 middleweight title fight between Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez will take place on the Las Vegas Strip.
COLUMBUS — Ohio State and its basketball coach Thad Matta, the program's all-time leader in wins, will part ways effective immediately.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is laying out his vision for privatizing the nation’s air traffic control system today, arguing that it will enhance safety and modernize aviation.
COLUMBUS — The cities of Dayton and Lorain have announced plans to file their own lawsuits, separate from one brought by Ohio, against manufacturers and distributors of opioid painkillers.
Vying for the Trump vote in the contest for Ohio governor next year, Republican candidate Jim Renacci today claimed the endorsement of two groups said to represent the swing constituency that supported Donald Trump for President.
SANDUSKY — The Sandusky County Sheriff’s Office has reopened a 2009 case after a Clyde man was recently charged in the death of Heather Bogle.
A South Toledo woman convicted of retaliation for her part in a plot to kill a woman she believed was involved in her son's murder was released early from prison today.
DIXON, Ill. — Authorities have hailed a northern Illinois man a hero after he jumped through the open window of a moving car to save the driver, who was having a seizure.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Police arrested 14 people as thousands of demonstrators and counter-protesters converged in downtown Portland more than a week after two men were fatally stabbed trying to stop a man from shouting anti-Muslim slurs at teenagers on a light-rail train.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Multiple people are dead after a shooting inside a business in an industrial park on Monday. Authorities converged on the area and announced that the situation has been contained.
PHILADELPHIA — More than a decade after Bill Cosby invited a college basketball manager to his home to discuss her career, the 79-year-old comedian goes on trial today in a sexual assault case that is sure to define his legacy.
CINCINNATI — Efforts to seat a jury in Cincinnati are set to resume, with both sides now supporting a change of venue in the retrial of a white former police officer on murder charges in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black motorist during a 2015 traffic stop.
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A South Toledo woman is accused of shoving her ex-boyfriend into a wall and later punching a Toledo police officer.
DETROIT — The U.S. government is investigating complaints that air bag control computers in some Jeep Liberty SUVs can fail, preventing the air bags from inflating in a crash.
LONDON — British counterterrorism investigators searched two homes today and detained “a number” of people in the investigation into a van and knife attack in the heart of London that left seven people dead.