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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A gunman who held a pharmacy owner hostage at his store in rural western Nebraska is dead after a 14-hour standoff, the Nebraska State Patrol said early Wednesday....

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Police have cordoned off a Buffalo, N.Y., hospital where they say a woman has been fatally shot....

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The three-day hunt for a man charged with killing three people near Auburn University ended with the suspect walking up the steps of an Alabama courthouse and peacefully turning himself in to a U.S. Marshal waiting inside....

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Jurors in Jerry Sandusky's child sex-abuse trial are likely to hear more graphic testimony Wednesday, following two days of accounts of alleged sex assaults involving the former Penn State assistant football coach and boys he met through his charity....

HOUSTON (AP) -- Jurors will soon begin deliberating the fate of a Texas man who argues the state's version of a stand-your-ground law allowed him to fatally shoot a neighbor in 2010 after a confrontation about a loud party....

RUIDOSO, N.M. (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....

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A gunman who held a pharmacy owner hostage at his store in rural western Nebraska is dead after a 14-hour standoff, the Nebraska State Patrol said early Wednesday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says he's against any direct U.S. military involvement in violence-ravaged Syria....

FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota residents say they've had enough of a decades-old controversy on its flagship university's nickname....

FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota residents say they've had enough of a decades-old controversy on its flagship university's nickname....

RUIDOSO, N.M. (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....

McGREGOR, Texas (AP) -- NASA's administrator is to visit the history-making Dragon spacecraft at a Texas rocket factory....

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Four months ago, two African-American pastors stood in a hallway of the Southern Baptist Convention's Nashville headquarters looking at a row of white faces....

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Four months ago, two African-American pastors stood in a hallway of the Southern Baptist Convention's Nashville headquarters looking at a row of white faces....

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The three-day hunt for a man charged with killing three people near Auburn University ended with the suspect walking up the steps of an Alabama courthouse and peacefully turning himself in to a U.S. Marshal waiting inside....

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The three-day hunt for a man charged with killing three people near Auburn University ended with the suspect walking up the steps of an Alabama courthouse and peacefully turning himself in to a U.S. Marshal waiting inside....

BOSTON (AP) -- Just minutes after the longtime girlfriend of mobster James "Whitey" Bulger was sentenced to eight years in prison for helping Bulger stay on the run for 16 years, federal prosecutors began discussing Bulger's trial....

LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) -- Jan Gueswel describes a harrowing escape from her Colorado mountain home: flames stretching 200 feet into the air towering over the lone road out. But she swears she'd never live anywhere else....

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Three more accusers took the stand at Jerry Sandusky's sex-abuse trial Thursday, one of whom said the former Penn State assistant football coach called himself the "tickle monster" before embracing him in a shower and another who said he was forced into sex acts during more than a hundred nights he spent in the ex-coach's home....

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Agnes Flanagan Chapel is a 16-sided architectural marvel that seats 650 under stained glass windows depicting the book of Genesis....