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LOS ANGELES - An airport security officer lay helplessly bleeding after a gunman opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport as paramedics waited 150 yards away because police had not declared the terminal safe to enter, according to two law enforcement officials.

When news broke last Friday that there was an Instagram account devoted exclusively to ratting out witnesses to crimes across Philadelphia, social media experts barely blinked an eye.“It’s absolutely not surprising to me.

A Pennsylvania newspaper on Thursday retracted an 1863 editorial that dismissed President Abraham Lincoln's now revered Gettysburg Address delivered during the U.S. Civil War as "silly remarks" deserving a "veil of oblivion.

A Washington woman was arrested in a hospital emergency room Thursday after she left a bomb in a car parked just outside, police said. Suspicious officers then searched her home — and found another bomb.The woman, identified as Krista L.

The four U.S. Marines killed when unexploded ordnance blew up after a training accident at what is known as the Zulu impact area of Camp Pendleton, Calif., were all experienced in their field, and three had more than a decade of service.

A Washington woman was arrested in a hospital emergency room Thursday after she left a bomb in a car parked just outside, police said. Suspicious officers then searched her home — and found another bomb.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will nominate the head of a doctors group that promotes his signature healthcare law to be the next U.S. surgeon general, the White House said on Thursday, shortly after Obama proposed a "fix" for the latest problem with the law.

A 15-year-old Texas boy was arrested Thursday and accused of tweeting threats to shoot up his school because he had been bullied, authorities said.The boy, who lives in Deer Park, a suburb of Houston, was arrested about 4 a.m. (5 a.m.

A massive stockpile of elephant ivory was crushed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday as part of an escalating push to stamp out illegal wildlife trafficking around the world.

Authorities were searching waters off Key Biscayne after  a man reportedly fell out of a private plane with no parachute at about 2,000 feet in the air while over water.“We are still trying to ensure that it’s a true report. We don’t know for sure," said U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Jon-Paul Rios.