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A long-awaited viability study says the endangered red wolf can survive in the wild, but it's going to take “substantial management efforts beyond many of those currently implemented.” The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also released an updated red wolf recovery plan Friday calling for $328...

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s groundbreaking career in politics was documented in photos from the moment she was sworn in as San Francisco mayor in the aftermath of tragedy to her long-awaited return to the U.S. Senate after illness earlier this year.

Lawyers for six death row inmates out of appeals in South Carolina are asking the state Supreme Court to not immediately restart executions after the state announced it has a drug to restart lethal injections. The attorneys want the justices to give full consideration to the state’s new lethal...

A former investigative journalist for ABC News has been sentenced to six years in prison for possessing and transporting child sexual abuse images. James Gordon Meek pleaded guilty in July. He admitted in a plea agreement that he used an iPhone to exchange illicit materials during a chat session...

A former Staples Inc. executive whose fraud and bribery convictions in the sprawling college admissions cheating scandal were thrown out by an appeals court has been sentenced to six months of home detention for a tax offense. John Wilson was sentenced Friday in Boston’s federal appeals court...

A federal court ordered the owners of 14 Subway locations north of San Francisco to pay employees nearly $1 million in damages and back pay — and also to sell or shut their businesses, with any sale proceeds going to the Labor Department. Federal investigators said the owners directed children as...

The U.S. Senate has confirmed a new U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi. The action puts Todd Gee in charge of overseeing the largest public corruption case in state history. President Joe Biden nominated Gee in September 2022. He was confirmed Friday in an 82-8 vote, with all...

A grand jury has indicted two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers for shooting a Black man who was sleeping in a car parked outside his grandmother’s house. Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said Friday that Officers Carl Chandler and Alexander Gregory were indicted on battery...

South Dakota cowboys and cowgirls are rounding up a herd of more than 1,500 bison as part of an annual effort to maintain the health of the species, which has rebounded from near-extinction. Visitors came from across the world watched the thundering wooly creatures run over hills and grasslands...

The scandal-plagued Baton Rouge Police Department has arrested three of its own officers, including a deputy chief. They are charged with trying to cover up excessive force during a strip search inside a police bathroom. Chief Murphy Paul told reporters Friday that his department does not tolerate...

A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service has been charged with leaking tax information to news outlets about a government official and thousands of the country’s wealthiest people. The Justice Department said in a statement Friday that 38-year-old Charles Edward Littlejohn of...

A New Mexico man has been charged with attempted murder in a shooting that wounded one person at a protest over plans to install a statue of a Spanish conquistador outside government offices in the northern New Mexico city of Española. Defendant Ryan David Martinez was read the felony charges of...

A fire has destroyed several waterfront buildings in Maine, including an art gallery with several paintings by Jamie Wyeth and an illustration by his grandfather, N.C. Wyeth Three original paintings and illustration, along with several signed prints, books and photographs, were lost when the fire...

The looming government shutdown threatens to claw its way into a crowd-pleasing Alaska tradition: Fat Bear Week. Alaska’s most-watched popularity contest, Fat Bear Week involves residents picking their favorite fat brown bear who’s been stocking up for winter by noshing on salmon in Katmai National...

A judge is declining to freeze a new Georgia law creating a commission to discipline and remove state prosecutors. In the decision, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Paige Reese Whitaker suggests she will ultimately rule against a lawsuit attacking the measure. On Friday, Whitaker denied a request...

A Washington state man who falsely claimed Native American heritage to sell his artwork at downtown Seattle galleries has been sentenced to probation and community service. The U.S. attorney's office says 54-year-old Lewis Anthony Rath, of Maple Falls, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District...

Authorities say a man wanted for child sex abuse crimes shot and killed himself after wounding two federal marshals trying to arrest him. U.S. Marshals say their agents were trying to arrest George Curtis on Friday at a South Carolina hotel when they were fired on. Officials say the injuries to the...

Authorities say a New Jersey man deliberately drove his SUV into a home and the offices of a municipal police department earlier this month. The Warren County Prosecutor’s Office said Friday that no one was injured in the crashes, both of which happened on Sept. 20. But they say at least one...

The Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore announced Friday it filed for Chapter 11 reorganization days before a new state law goes into effect removing the statute of limitations on child sex abuse charges and allowing victims to sue their abusers decades after the fact. In a statement posted on the...

Head Start programs serving more than 10,000 disadvantaged children would immediately lose federal funding if the government shutdown isn't averted. Those 10 programs are located in Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts and South Carolina. They serve just a fraction of the...

A Missouri high school teacher has been placed on leave after officials discovered that she was performing on a pornography website to supplement her salary. And while she says her teaching days are probably over, she acknowledges that she knew the risks. Brianna Coppage is 28 and taught English at...

One of the last living witnesses to the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas is indicted on murder charge.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A last-ditch Republican funding effort collapses in the House, leaving the government on the verge of a shutdown.

The man accused of killing Baltimore tech entrepreneur Pava LaPere last week and a rape and arson days earlier will be held without bail pending trial in those cases. Jason Billingsley is charged with first-degree murder in LaPere’s death. He was released from prison last October after serving a...