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Police said an man was killed and at least three other people were injured when a man on a scooter opened fire at random in multiple locations.

The murder of Joyce Casper, a 65-year-old shop owner from Boise, Idaho, was recently solved after 35 years of investigations using new DNA technology.

A man who Mexican authorities claim has killed three women in Tijuana was arrested in California this week as a fugitive.

Michael Burham, wanted in homicide in Jamestown, N.Y., and charged with kidnapping, had been in jail since he was caught in manhunt in South Carolina.

The records that were broken were another reminder of how vast and interconnected the Earth is as climate change effects pile up.

Since the 1950s, there has been a decline in attendance and membership in every major Christian denomination, particularly in the past two decades.

A historic algal bloom has sickened or killed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of sea lions and dolphins off the central and southern coasts of California

Former KCCI Des Moines meteorologist Chris Gloninger received death threats and sustained harassment over his coverage of climate change. Gloninger says the stress led to a PTSD diagnosis and ultimately a decision to leave television. (July 7) (AP vide…

After years of sailboats being hoisted out of the shrinking Great Salt Lake amid fears they might not return, sailors are back this summer. That’s thanks to an abnormally wet winter that has raised the lake 6 feet from last November’s historic low. (Ju…

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