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By his own reckoning, a Navy electrician spent just eight hours in Vietnam, during a layover on his flight back to the U.S. in 1966. He bought some cigarettes and snapped a few photos.

The suspected gunman in the fatal shooting of a Mormon church official in Central California was mentally ill and believed the church had wronged him when he was a member in the 1980s, family members said Monday.

State investigators say the former director of food services for New York's prisons took favors including three-day picnics and other parties in exchange for steering contracts to vendors.

Voters in a rural California county in such dire financial condition that it's seeking a state bailout approved a tax to fund their hospital Tuesday.

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Jack Horkheimer, the creator and host of the PBS show "Star Gazer" who helped popularize naked-eye astronomy, has died. He was 72.

Police have released a tape of a 911 call in which a man suspected of fatally shooting a Mormon church official in Central California told officers where to find him and to be ready for "mortal combat."

A man who shot and killed his son and nephew and wounded four other relatives had been involved in an ongoing family dispute over a piece of property in rural central Virginia, authorities said Monday.

A former Ohio doctor has admitted keeping dozens of pipe bombs that were part of an arsenal seized at his apartment after two explosions.

He may be leader of the free world, but President Barack Obama isn't exempt from a summer rainstorm like the one that blew across New England on Monday, swamping his Martha's Vineyard vacation.