The encounter marked the first such incident at Yellowstone National Park in more than four years, officials said.

The National Weather Service has issued air quality alerts in Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky.

NORTH CODORUS, Pa. (AP) — Three police officers were fatally shot and two wounded Wednesday in southern Pennsylvania, and the shooter was killed by police, authorities said. The officers were at the scene, amid rolling farmland, to follow up on a domestic...

A new poll shed light on whether voters would blame Democrats or Republicans for a government shutdown.

Statue of Abraham Lincoln stolen from Louisiana plantation turns up cut into pieces at pawn shop - Three people are accused of stealing a rare, solid silver Abraham Lincoln statue from Houmas House in Louisiana and cutting it into pieces to sell at pawn...