CENTENNIAL, Colorado – Support and concern for a 17-year-old girl critically wounded by a fellow student at a suburban Denver high school poured in Monday, both online and outside the school.
People pray, leave notes for critically wounded Colo. student; gunman’s parents ‘devastated’
DENVER – The U.S. and Canadian military will entertain millions of kids again this Christmas Eve with second-by-second updates on Santa’s global whereabouts. But there’s something new this year: public criticism.
As NORAD gets ready to track Santa, critics are tracking NORAD, saying video is militaristic
HARTFORD, Connecticut – A white former police officer accused of being part of a conspiracy to harass Latinos in Connecticut has been sentenced to two years in prison on an obstruction charge.
White former Conn. police officer sentenced to 2 years in prison for role in Latino bias probe
TULSA, Oklahoma – Two men charged with first-degree murder and hate crimes in the shooting deaths of three people in Tulsa last year pleaded guilty Monday and were sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Pair charged in Tulsa shooting rampage that killed 3, wounded 2 plead guilty, get life terms
BOSTON – Attorneys for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are asking a judge for a later deadline for them to seek moving the trial from Boston.
Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect want later deadline to ask to relocate trial
BIG SUR, California – A wildfire burning Monday in the Big Sur area of California forced the evacuation of dozens of homes as it chewed through dry vegetation on its way toward the ocean. No injuries were reported.
Dozens of homes evacuated as wildfire grows in Big Sur area of California; 2 homes damaged
ST. LOUIS – Pope Francis announced changes in the influential Vatican office that evaluates and nominates candidates for bishop around the world.
Pope changes roster at influential Vatican office
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey – The Anti-Defamation League says a National Rifle Association board member from New Jersey was out of line to suggest similarities between gun control efforts and Nazism.
Anti-Defamation League: NRA board member out of line to bring Holocaust into NJ gun politics
NEW YORK – New York’s longest serving police commissioner is going into public speaking after he leaves the department at the end of the year.
NYPD commissioner Kelly hired as public speaker when tenure ends Jan. 1
HONOLULU – The National Transportation Safety Board says it will try to recover the plane that crashed off the Hawaiian island of Molokai after the aircraft was spotted in the water.
NTSB says it will try to salvage plane off Molokai that was initially believed unrecoverable
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