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Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Pedro Alvarez (24) reacts at home plate after hitting a solo home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the fifth inning at PNC Park.

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, President Barack Obama will visit the city next week to tour neighborhoods and meet with families still recovering from the devastation.

Ted Cruz (Texas) on Friday at the Iowa State Fair about workplace protections for gay employees. “What about the question about LGBT people being fired for being gay [or] trans?” she asked, wearing a cap and sunglasses.

A 200-yard stretch of Newport and Huntington Beach was shut down Thursday afternoon after a shark sighting, according to officials.

The new CNN/ORC sampling released on Friday said that 51 disapprove of Obama’s role in the Oval Office, compared to 47 percent approving.

Unemployment was lowest in Charleston and Lexington counties, which both posted rates of 5.3 percent.

Dominick’s, a now-shuttered grocery chain in the Chicago area, in 2009 used Jordan’s name in a commemorative ad in Sports Illustrated when the former Chicago Bulls great was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Now all that’s left is for...

He faces up to three years in prison and a fine up to $300,000. The spill on Jan. 9, 2014, of 10,000 gallons of an industrial chemical known as MCHM – used for cleaning coal – left parts of nine counties without water for days and even weeks. Prosecutors said it would...

Well, that didn’t take long.

Luibrand, in his closing argument, said if “Crawford is guilty of anything, it is proliferating information” but said the government was responsible for creating what the media dubbed the “death ray” machine. It hasn’t worked in any of the post-9/11...

A video showing the rescue of a 13-year-old girl who was struggling in Lake Michigan Thursday has been released by the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety.

Its goal with the filing is to develop a reasonable plan for the city to pay the judgment while “ensuring that Hillview is a great place to live and raise a family”.

“If there’s fraud or if there’s abuse, if pregnant women are coming in to have babies, simply because they can do it, then there ought to be greater enforcement”, Bush told Bill Bennett’s Morning in America Show. You can mention his name …

Attorneys for imprisoned former governor Rod Blagojevich have asked the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to place on hold the court’s own decision, rejecting the majority of Blagojevich’s appeal and sending the case back to the district court for resentencing.

The women said they don’t want special treatment.