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Arizona, long at odds with President Barack Obama's administration over immigration reform, is expanding a ban on giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants to include all those who have been granted relief from deportation, in a move rights advocates criticized as "vindictive.

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Authorities in Washington state voiced skepticism Wednesday about a claim by Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer," that he can help find the bodies of more of his victims.

One of the steadying voices that emerged in the wake of Monday's mass shooting at the Navy Yard was that of Cathy Lanier, chief of police with the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.The tough-as-nails commander told NBC News that as Washington D.C.

It could be years before the six people whose skeletal remains were discovered in two cars at the bottom of an Oklahoma lake are positively identified, authorities said Wednesday — but they were pretty sure the discovery will solve two 40-year-old missing persons cases.

Honesty really paid off for a homeless man in Boston who turned in a backpack worth nearly $42,000 earlier this week.

Two decades-old cars containing six skeletons were recovered from a lake in a remote, sparsely populated area of southwestern Oklahoma, officials said Tuesday — potentially solving a pair of cold cases that have bedeviled local authorities for years.

Although the Washington, D.C., Council did not override Mayor Vincent C. Gray's veto of the Large Retailer Accountability Act (LRAA), which would have required the district’s big-box retailers to pay workers a living wage of $12.50 an hour, the conversation about raising the minimum wage in D.C. is gaining momentum. 

A 14-year-old Georgia girl kidnapped by two gunmen during a home invasion early Tuesday has been found alive, officials said.Ayvani Hope Perez was in good health, officials said, and was being evaluated on Wednesday afternoon.A nationwide Amber Alert was issued after Ayvani was taken at about 2 a.m.