Making a choice: Voters talk of decision and of tensions
Election Day has arrived at last, and Americans are heading to the polls to have their say in the choice of the next president. Some…
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Serial killer has Safford connection
By MEG KINNARD AND SEANNA ADCOX, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHESNEE, S.C. – For 13 years, the relatives came together periodically to grieve one of South Carolina’s…
Confusion, obstacles raise voting concerns in some states
ATLANTA (AP) — More than a dozen states have enacted tougher requirements for registering and voting since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a key provision…
Pope taps new cardinal for Newark as he remakes US church
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pressing his campaign to remake the U.S. Catholic church, Pope Francis on Monday tapped one of his new cardinals, Joseph Tobin,…
Janet Reno, former US attorney general, has died
MIAMI (AP) — Shy and admittedly awkward, Janet Reno became a blunt prosecutor and the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and was…
Effigy of Donald Trump to be burned at UK bonfire display
LONDON (AP) — A British town is burning a giant effigy of Donald Trump, holding the head of Hillary Clinton, at its annual bonfire celebrations….
Conference highlights drug abuse epidemic’s effects on kids
CINCINNATI (AP) — The country’s addictions epidemic has created a generation of children affected by their parents’ problems, a doctor who works with infants born…
Gas pipeline blast could increase pump prices in Southeast
HELENA, Ala. (AP) — For the second time in two months, an accident has shut down a pipeline supplying gasoline to millions of people across…
In California, a $350 million social experiment over lawns
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — California water agencies that spent more than $350 million in the last two years of drought to pay property owners…
Oklahoma state trooper kills fugitive after weeklong manhunt
LEEDEY, Okla. (AP) — A weeklong manhunt for a suspect in a string of violent crimes, including the killing of two relatives, the shooting of…
