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WASHINGTON (AP) — If Chuck Lacasse had gotten his pink slip four days earlier, Uncle Sam would have covered most of his family’s health insurance …

WASHINGTON (AP) — BP will set aside $20 billion to pay the victims of the massive oil spill in the Gulf, senior administration officials said …

A black kid out of Fort Lauderdale, a freshman in college and an aspiring NFL player, Samuel Hammond Jr. died at 18 because he wanted …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cadmium has been discovered in the painted design on “Shrek”-themed drinking glasses being sold nationwide at McDonald’s, forcing the burger giant …

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A beauty queen known as the Dominican Cinderella for her rise from humble roots is trading pageants for politics …

BP grossly misstated the amount of oil spewing from its collapsed rig in the Gulf of Mexico. It stalled in providing a live camera feed …

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ When they report to court to fill out questionnaires in the case of a former transit officer charged with killing an …

PROVO, Utah (AP) _ Gary Coleman once said he wanted people to think of him as something more than the chubby-cheeked child star from television …

MIAMI (AP) — A few months after a 10-year-old child was placed with eight other children in a Tampa foster home overseen by a single …

DETROIT (AP) — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to up to five years in prison Tuesday, May 25 for violating the terms of …