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A Milwaukee man was convicted Wednesday of fatally shooting his 13-year-old neighbor whom he suspected had broken into his home and stolen weapons. The trial now shifts into a second phase in which the defense will try to prove the 76-year-old defendant was mentally ill at the time of the shooting.

About 210 children and at least 75 volunteers and staffers were safely evacuated from two campsites in the path of a rapidly growing  wildfire in the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California, authorities said Wednesday.

Today the Senate in a 60-40 cloture vote ended debate on President Obama's Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez. This means the nomination will move to a full Senate vote, which is expected tomorrow. 

The body of a Texas man who has been missing for three years has been found buried in the front yard of his rural Tarrant County home.Ervin Robinson disappeared in 2010. His wife, Neola Robinson, 62, is charged with murder.

Your nose doesn't lie - odors intensify in the warm summer months, be they rotting garbage on the sidewalk or fragrant flowers blooming in a garden.

Rolling Stone magazine sparked a heated social media debate Wednesday after releasing a cover image promoting an upcoming profile of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

For the past few days, representatives from more than 300 diverse international organizations gathered at the United Nations in New York to tackle these critical questions, begin building connections across borders and discuss and develop strategies for bringing these issues to the forefront of the international development agenda.

The Cleveland man accused of kidnapping three women and repeatedly raping them while he held them captive in his home for a decade had to be asked to keep his eyes open when he pleaded not guilty to a sprawling new 977-count indictment Wednesday.

Washington State has a world-class aerospace cluster, employing more than 130,000 people making products the rest of the world wants to buy. In 2003, the Boeing Co. cast a chill on the state, moving its headquarters to Chicago. In 2009, the chill deepened with the decision to assemble some 787s in South Carolina.