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Oregon police have surrounded a motel where they believe an ex-con accused of murdering his elderly grandparents in Washington is hiding.

A South Carolina volunteer firefighter recently made an unusual discovery on the side of the road: three black bear cubs. Two of the baby bears are being housed at the Appalachian Bear Rescue, where staff members hope to release them back into the wild within the year. The other may never be able to live on her own.

Today the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Board ridiculed the absurd notion from the Missouri State Senate that somehow union members (teachers, nurses, secretaries, pothole fixers and home health care workers) are to blame for the state's economic woes. "Oh, please," the board responds. 

Intelligence leaders said for the first time on Tuesday that cyber attacks and cyber espionage have supplanted terrorism as the top security threat facing the United States. That stark assessment, in an annual "worldwide threat" briefing that covered concerns as diverse as North Korea's belligerence and Syria's civil war, was reinforced in remarks by the spy chiefs before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

A Washington state mother is accused of letting her 22-month-old toddler smoke marijuana from a bong.

Even in a city with more than 500 homicides a year, it's a crime that shocks the senses: a 6-month-old Chicago girl fatally shot five times while having her diaper changed in the family van.

It's back. The Ryan–GOP budget that gives seniors "coupons" to pay for health care and guts Medicaid and public investment to enrich millionaires and billionaires was once again proposed by the House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) today. 

ST. LOUIS - Suddenly being swallowed up by the earth on a golf course's fairway drove a wedge between Mark Mihal and a stellar round.

Google has agreed to pay $7 million to settle a lawsuit filed by 37 states and the District of Columbia over the firm’s vacuuming of data from home Wi-Fi networks around the world.

Amid a firestorm of protests from veterans’ groups and lawmakers, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered a review of a new military medal for pilots of unmanned drones.