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FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota voters overwhelmingly decided Tuesday to let the state's flagship university dump a controversial Fighting Sioux nickname that sparked threats of NCAA sanctions, ending - at least temporarily - a dispute simmering for decades that divided sports fans, alumni and even tribes....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration's increasing use of unmanned drone strikes to kill terror suspects is widely opposed around the world, according to a Pew Research Center survey on the U.S. image abroad....

PHOENIX (AP) -- Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' hand-picked Democratic candidate squared off Tuesday in a special House election in Arizona against the Republican she narrowly beat just months before she was shot. It was a hard-fought preview of the broader fall campaign to come....

FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota voters decided Tuesday to let the state's flagship university dump a controversial Fighting Sioux nickname that sparked threats of NCAA sanctions, ending - at least temporarily - a dispute simmering for decades that divided sports fans, alumni and even tribes....

PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona's governor on Tuesday ordered a state board to redistribute a training video on the state's controversial immigration law to all law enforcement agencies....

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A referendum on gay marriage in Washington state has qualified for the ballot....

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A referendum on gay marriage in Washington state has qualified for the ballot....

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- In the stables at a prominent quarter horse track in New Mexico, workers quietly nicknamed Jose Trevino Morales's stables as the "Zetas' stables" and say they often saw people show up with bags of cash to buy the horses....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Hoax emergency calls like the one about a yacht explosion off New Jersey cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars a year, yet authorities who police the nation's coastlines acknowledge there's little they can do to prevent them....

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A man accused of killing three people at a party near Auburn University turned himself in Tuesday after a three-day manhunt that included a tense but fruitless search of a Montgomery home by police tactical units, a defense attorney said.

Attorney Susan James said that her ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A law enforcement official says that police have arrested a man accused of killing three people near Auburn University over the weekend....

ATLANTA (AP) -- A Ku Klux Klan group in Georgia lost its bid Tuesday to join the state's highway cleanup program, but a legal challenge to the decision may be looming. Similar groups in other states have won legal battles after initially being turned down for highway cleanup programs....

ATLANTA (AP) -- A Ku Klux Klan group in Georgia lost its bid Tuesday to join the state's highway cleanup program, but a legal challenge to the decision may be looming. Similar groups in other states have won legal battles after initially being turned down for highway cleanup programs....

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Authorities say a man held hostage for hours by a gunman in a western Nebraska drugstore has escaped but was wounded while getting away....

MIAMI (AP) -- A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack alongside a busy South Florida highway is in good spirits, talking and walking with the help of hospital staff, doctors said Tuesday....

BOSTON — The longtime girlfriend of mobster James "Whitey" Bulger was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for helping one of the FBI's most-wanted men stay on the run for 16 years, a life her attorney said she doesn't regret because she still loves Mr. Bulger.

Catherine Greig showed ...

CHICAGO | Maybe it is the splintering of established drug gangs that has young men grabbing the tools of their trade - handguns - to jockey for position? Or it is that rival gangs, once miles apart in different public housing complexes, suddenly finding themselves sharing the same street corner?

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The wife of the neighborhood watch volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin was charged with perjury Tuesday, accused of lying when she told a judge that the couple had limited funds, resulting in her husband being released on $150,000 bond.

Shellie Zimmerman, 25, was released on $1,000 ...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. | Former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary told jurors in Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial Tuesday that he saw his ex-colleague with a prepubescent boy in an on-campus shower and that he heard "skin-on-skin smacking sound."

His account of the night differed little from his appearance ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A 30-year-old Alaska man mauled by a bear pleads for help in a recorded 911 call, telling the dispatcher he's up a tree and can hear the animal huffing below him....