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Forecasters say Ida has weakened to a tropical depression and is heading east toward the Florida Panhandle with winds near 35 mph (55 kph). Read More

Ida sloshed ashore with rain and gusty winds before losing its tropical storm strength Tuesday, leaving weather-hardened Gulf Coast residents largely unscathed. Read More

A town official says a gunman at an upstate New York high school has taken the principal hostage. Read More

Ida weakens to tropical depression, losing strength as it turns east from Alabama Gulf Coast. Read More

The driver of Boston subway train that came to a screeching halt just before hitting a woman who had fallen onto the tracks has been hailed as a hero. Read More

Oklahoma City police say a fire that swept through a home where four people were found dead was intentionally set. Read More

Tropical Storm Ida blew ashore with rain and gusty but weakening winds before dawn Tuesday as weather-hardened Gulf Coast residents rode out the rare late-season storm. Read More

The famed Navajo Code Talkers, the elite Marine unit whose unbreakable code stymied the Japanese in World War II, fear their legacy will die with them. Read More

A South Carolina coroner says three people including a young child are dead and six were injured in a drive-by shooting in a small town. Read More

The attorney for the Army psychiatrist accused in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says he's assured the suspect that all of his rights as a defendant in the military justice system will be respected. Read More

Unless Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine steps in, sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad will be executed Tuesday for the attacks that terrorized the nation's capital region for three weeks in 2002. Read More

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Texas authorities are trying to figure out how a 16-year-old may have gotten a loaded handgun past officers at a juvenile detention center in Houston. Read More

Authorities called several times to check on a family's well-being in a rural Texas home eventually found the bodies of four people. Read More

The search for victims of a suspected serial killer is expanding far beyond his Ohio home and yard, where police have found the remains of at least 11 people. Read More

Defiant and unapologetic, a man accused of shooting a Kansas abortion provider confessed to the slaying Monday, telling The Associated Press that he killed the doctor to protect unborn children. Read More

Authorities say a 14-year-old boy is dead and his cousin is in custody after a bullet came through the wall of the motor home the boy was sleeping in at a central Oregon hunting camp and struck him in the head. Read More

Cell phone executive Joe Mallahan conceded defeat Monday in the race for Seattle mayor, handing environmental attorney Mike McGinn a victory in the state's biggest city. Read More

Envelopes containing suspicious powder were sent to three foreign consulates in Manhattan on Monday, but initial tests suggested the mailings were a hoax, police officials said. Read More

A New Mexico teenager suspected of killing a nun on the Navajo Indian reservation reportedly tried to commit suicide over the weekend. Read More