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At least 4,800 chicks shipped to Maine farmers through the U.S. Postal Service have arrived dead in the recent weeks since rapid cuts hit the federal mail carrier’s operations, U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said. The Portland Press Herald reported Wednesday that Pingree, a Maine Democrat, is raising the issue of the dead chicks and economic losses farms are now...

A 2-year-old girl died from bullets fired into her Kensington home Sunday and an 11-month-old boy is in “very, very, very critical condition” after he was shot Saturday night.

A man is dead and two people are in custody after a hit-and-run crash involving a motorized scooter and a car in Hartford, Connecticut Thursday.

Sheriff’s officials in Florida say an MS-13 gang member was killed after he shot a deputy in the face during a confrontation.

Actor Peter Mayhew, best known for portraying Chewbacca in the “Star Wars” franchise, has died at 74. Mayhew died at his Texas home on April 30.

Hartford police have arrested a man in the city’s first homicide of 2019.

A man is dead after a shooting on Laurel Street in Hartford Tuesday night and police have identified him as 20-year-old Carl Spence, of Hartford.

A former reality television show star is facing charges of fraud and identity theft after allegedly stealing and using a debit card from a man she allegedly visited for a prostitution date, authorities say.

Police say a teen drowned at Keney Park pool in the early morning hours. A surveillance camera at the pool was not working because of the extreme heat, Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin said.

At least three teenagers died when a 15-year-old girl driving a stolen car crashed on a Long Island parkway, a violent rollover accident that launched the vehicle off the highway and into thick brush, state police said Friday.

Congo began an Ebola vaccination campaign Monday in a northwest provincial capital in a major effort to stem an outbreak that has already made its way from rural towns into a city of more than 1 million people. The campaign comes a day after the health ministry announced that a nurse has died from Ebola in Bikoro, the rural northwestern...

One of two Dallas police officers critically wounded in a triple shooting at a Home Depot Tuesday afternoon has died, authorities confirmed Wednesday morning.

Police have arrested a man suspected in a hit-and-run on Vine Street in Hartford on Jan. 16 that killed two women.

A second person has died after a hit-and-run crash in Hartford last week.

Lead singer and songwriter of the New Jersey rock band Smithereens, Pat DiNizio, has died at age 62.

John Mayer was hospitalized Tuesday following an emergency appendectomy, the singers band Dead and Company revealed on social media.

U.S. Navy leaders are recommending a sweeping list of changes in sailor training, crew requirements and safety procedures to address systemic problems across the Pacific fleet that led to two deadly ship collisions earlier this year that killed 17 sailors, according to a copy of the report obtained by The Associated Press.

When singer Meghan Linsey first started her country duo Steel Magnolia, a partnership with the National Rifle Association was suggested as a way to grow their audience. The proposal, which she refused, was a commonplace example of how intertwined gun ownership is with country music. The mass shooting on the final day of Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas...

Vice President Mike Pence praised the heroic response by police and the resolve of the American people at a prayer service Saturday in Las Vegas before organizers released 58 white doves in memory of each victim killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. At the same time, federal agents started hauling away piles of backpacks, baby strollers...