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ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- U.S. evangelist Billy Graham, who helped transform Christianity in America during seven decades in the pulpit, marked his 95th birthday on Thursday with a rare public appearance among close to 900 people who gathered to celebrate his life.
Authorities were questioning a man who was wearing body armor when he was detained Thursday in connection with the shooting deaths of three people at a Detroit barbershop — an attack police called "urban terrorism.
A group of people on their way into a funeral service in New Jersey beat up a driver for honking his car's horn in front of the churchin an incident a passerby captured on video this week.
Coast Guard and Navy vessels, supported by two military aircraft, were responding Thursday night to distress calls from three sailboats waylaid by storms off the Atlantic Coast.
A committee of Florida lawmakers rejected a proposal to repeal the ''stand your ground'' self-defense law Thursday, following an hours-long hearing. The Florida House of Representatives Criminal Justice Subcommittee held a five-hour hearing starting at 3 p.m.
MIAMI — After raising a shackled right hand and swearing to tell the truth, U.S.-to-Cuba airline hijacker William Potts told a judge Thursday he had an objection at his first federal court appearance to face decades-old air piracy charges."I would like to — I'm new at this stuff," Potts told U.
Coast Guard and Navy vessels, supported by two military aircraft, were responding Thursday night to distress calls from four sailboats waylaid by storms off the Atlantic Coast, the Coast Guard said.
The owner of the carnival ride that injured five people last month at the North Carolina State Fair surrendered to police Thursday on three felony assault charges, authorities said.The Wake County Sheriff's Office said Joshua Gene Macaroni, 32, of Quitman, Ga.
Ohio's governor denied a request for executive clemency Thursday after a federal judge refused to block the execution of a child killer who's in line to be the first inmate to get a new, untested lethal drug cocktail.Ronald Phillips, 40, is due to be put to death Nov.
President Obama said Thursday that he is "sorry" that some Americans are losing their current health insurance plans as a result of the Affordable Care Act, despite his promise that no one would have to give up a health plan they liked.
