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Despite her vow to stay away, Victoria Sinclaire’s family was one of the first to rebuild, braving the enduring threat of wildfires, and now, repeated power outages as the nation’s largest utility tries to prevent its equipment from sparking blazes on windy days like it did in Paradise a year ago.

Indian Island off the coast of Northern California was the site of a massacre, a place that was contaminated by a shipyard and flush with invasive species.

When the nation’s largest utility warned customers that it would cut power to nearly 2 million people across Northern California, many rushed out to buy portable generators, knowing the investment could help sustain them during blackouts.

Security camera video appears to show the man who climbed a piece of artwork on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and used a hacksaw to remove a statue of Marilyn Monroe.

New Jersey police say 10 people have been wounded following a shooting at a Trenton bar.

A Colorado city has voted to drop the name “Swastika Acres” from a subdivision. KDVR-TV reports the Cherry Hills Village City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a name change to “Old Cherry Hills” to prevent future controversy.

As more states make it legal to smoke marijuana, some government officials, researchers and others worry what that might mean for one of the country’s biggest public health successes: curbing cigarette smoking. Though there are notable differences in health research findings on tobacco and marijuana, the juxtaposition strikes some as jarring after generations of Americans have gotten the message that...

Michael Brown’s mother was defeated Tuesday in her bid for a seat on the City Council in Ferguson, Missouri, where her son died in a police shooting that helped give rise to the national Black Lives Matter movement. Lesley McSpadden finished third in a three-way race in Ferguson’s 3rd Ward. Unofficial St. Louis County election results show the winner was...

When Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam refused to resign last week, he did so in the shadow of a Capitol built by a founding father and a slave owner, in the former seat of the Confederacy still wrestling with what to do about statues that honor those who fought to preserve slavery. The 35-year-old photo on his yearbook page of a...

At the press conference Saturday, Northam said his statements were meant to apologize that the photo was featured on his yearbook page and that it wasn’t him.

Federal officials announced 116 corruption charges Wednesday morning against powerful union leader John J. “Johnny Doc” Dougherty, Philadelphia City Councilman Bobby Henon and several IBEW Local 98 union employees.

Prosecutors in New Jersey are investigating how a 27-year-old man who walked into a police station, apparently high on drugs, wound up unresponsive while being transported by police to the hospital — then declared dead two days later.

Authorities arrested a man suspected of a Thanksgiving shooting at an Alabama mall where police killed a man they mistakenly believed to be the gunman, officials said Thursday. Emantic “EJ” Bradford Jr. was killed by an officer responding to the report of a mall shooting. Police said Bradford had a gun, and they initially blamed him for opening fire. They...

Relief and heartache await those starting to return home to a Southern California wildfire zone. Some homeowners returned to homes left standing, others found complete destruction in the Woolsey Fire zone.

A 46-year-old man armed with an assault rifle opened fire at a synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood on Saturday morning, the Jewish Sabbath, killing 11 people and injuring four police officers before being taken into custody, according to officials and law enforcement sources. The suspect, Robert Bowers, traded gunfire with police and was shot several times. Bowers, who was...

The United Nations said Tuesday it will investigate the death of an opposition councilman jailed by Venezuela’s intelligence police on allegations that he plotted to kill President Nicolas Maduro. Venezuelan officials said that Fernando Alban killed himself by leaping from the 10th floor of the state police agency’s headquarters. But opposition leaders denied the official version.

The Los Angeles City Council moved forward Tuesday with a plan to become the largest city in America to ban the sale and manufacturing of nearly all fur products.

Oviedo public works officials recovered her wedding ring after it got flushed down the toilet – a recovery the department’s director said had a ‘one in a million’ chance of succeeding.

Jerry Fadgen was first elected to the council in 1995, serving until 2011 before being elected again in 2013.