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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The first doctor to reach President Abraham Lincoln after he was shot in a Washington theater rushed to his ceremonial box and found him paralyzed, comatose and leaning against his wife. Dr. Charles Leale ordered brandy and water to be brought immediately.

Leale's long-lost report of efforts ...

CONNECTICUT

ACLU: School wrong to outlaw anti-gay shirt

HARTFORD | The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday said a Connecticut high school violated a student's rights to free expression by asking him to remove a T-shirt with an anti-gay message.

Seth Groody, a junior at Wolcott High School, wore the ...

CINCINNATI — A western Ohio high school runner who helped a struggling competitor finish their race is being praised for her sportsmanship and trying to cope with the attention it has sparked.

Meghan Vogel appreciates the accolades but said Tuesday that she is a bit overwhelmed by the praise that ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A National Transportation Safety Board investigator on Tuesday arrived at the scene of a deadly air tanker crash in Utah and began scouring the 600-yard debris field for clues about why the plane went down while battling a wildfire.

The investigator was expected to spend much ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban said Tuesday they plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a landmark appellate court ruling that struck down the law as unconstitutional.

Alliance Defense Fund lawyer Brian Raum said Proposition 8 backers "absolutely" would take the case to ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — A 17-year-old has been indicted in Ohio in the school shooting deaths of three students and the wounding of three others.

The indictment was returned Tuesday in Geauga County, east of Cleveland, against T.J. Lane.

A judge ruled last month that the youth must be tried as ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — An attorney for the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing Trayvon Martin is delaying his request for a new bond hearing.

George Zimmerman's attorney announced on his legal team's website Tuesday that he would put off filing a new bond motion. He offered no further ...

NEW YORK — Disney says its programming will no longer be sponsored by junk food.

The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday that it will become the first major media company to ban such ads for its TV channels, radio stations and websites intended for children. That means kids watching Saturday ...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Three of the 16 jurors and alternates needed for former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky's child sex-abuse trial were selected Tuesday morning as the high-profile case got under way in earnest after months of legal wrangling and intense publicity.

A middle-aged woman selected told the ...

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Wisconsin is a land of thrifty cheeseheads, angry labor bosses and sore Democratic losers, hardly typical of everywhere else, but Tuesday night it might tell the rest of us something about November.

The results of a referendum on whether to recall Gov. Scott Walker will say whether it's possible ...

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Wisconsin is a land of thrifty cheeseheads, angry labor bosses and sore Democratic losers, hardly typical of everywhere else, but Tuesday night it might tell the rest of us something about November.

The results of a referendum on whether to recall Gov. Scott Walker will say whether it's possible ...

WASHINGTON — The results of an investigation into a deadly tour bus crash in New York last year that killed 15 passengers and helped prompt a crackdown on rogue bus operators by federal regulators are about to be released.

The five-member National Transportation Safety Board plans to meet Tuesday to ...

California voters can head to the movies Tuesday to watch "Snow White and the Huntsman," or turn up at the ballot box to see something not much different: "Dianne Feinstein and the 23 Dwarfs."

A voter-approved overhaul of California's election procedures has resulted in a whopping 24 candidates vying for ...

RENO, Nev. — A firefighting aircraft crashed into rugged terrain near the Utah-Nevada border as it dropped retardant on a 5,000-acre wildfire, killing the two Idaho men on board.

The air tanker went down Sunday afternoon in the Hamblin Valley area of western Utah, Bureau of Land Management officials said. ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday proposed cutting the penalty for public possession of a small amount of marijuana, a change in state law that could defuse some criticism of the New York Police Department's "stop-and-frisk" policy in minority communities.

With three weeks remaining in the legislative session, ...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Picking 12 people to decide Jerry Sandusky's fate in the child-molestation case that brought down legendary coach Joe Paterno and scandalized Penn State could prove a monumental task in a county where practically everyone went to the university, or works there, or knows someone there or is ...

ALBANY — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the world's top developers will soon compete to propose a convention center and casino in or close to New York City, possibly including Manhattan or the Belmont racetrack.

The process may take more than a year and depends on voters approving a ...

MISSOURI VALLEY, Iowa — Mason Hansen guns his pickup and cranks the steering wheel to spin through sand up to 4 feet high, but this is no day at the beach.

Mr. Hansen once grew corn and soybeans in the sandy wasteland in western Iowa, and his frustration is clear. ...

BRUNSWICK, Ohio — An 18-year-old high school senior died of injuries suffered in a weekend car crash just hours before his graduation, raising the death toll to four students. A fifth student was injured.

The MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland released a statement from Kevin Fox's family Monday morning saying ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A firefighting aircraft crashed into rugged terrain near the Utah-Nevada border as it dropped retardant on a 5,000-acre wildfire, killing the two Idaho men on board.

The air tanker went down Sunday afternoon in the Hamblin Valley area of western Utah, Bureau of Land Management officials ...