San Francisco said goodbye Thursday to Candlestick Park with an evening concert by former Beatle Paul McCartney that finished about midnight. It will be demolished to make way for a housing, retail and entertainment development.
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Two missing Amish sisters turned up safe Thursday evening, about 24 hours after they were apparently abducted from their family’s roadside farm stand in northern New York, authorities said.
A recently fired casino security guard used his knowledge of when and where large sums of money would change hands to help plan and pull off a daring robbery in New Jersey that netted more than $180,000, authorities said Thursday.
The images are reminiscent of a war zone: Helmeted officers pointing weapons from armored trucks, flash grenades lighting the night sky and tear gas exploding in crowded streets.
Pope Francis’ choice of wheels during his five-day South Korean visit has surprised many in this painfully self-conscious country, where big shots rarely hit the streets in anything but expensive luxury cars.
A New Hampshire man who raped and killed a college student was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the chance of parole after the victim’s family tearfully and angrily lamented what he took from them.
Pope Francis called Thursday for peace and unity on the war-divided Korean Peninsula, offering a message of reconciliation at the start of a five-day visit to South Korea.
Authorities say a 5-year-old girl was killed and several others were injured in a fiery multi-vehicle crash that has shut down all lanes of a Los Angeles County freeway.
Protests in the St. Louis suburb rocked by racial unrest since a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death turned violent Wednesday night, with some people lobbing Molotov cocktails and other objects at police who responded with smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse the crowd.
The father of a slain 6-year-old Washington girl says he forgives the 17-year-old neighbor suspected of killing her, and he is leaning on his religion following her death.
An Associated Press video journalist and a freelance Palestinian translator were killed Wednesday when ordnance left over from the Israeli-Hamas war exploded as they were reporting on the conflict’s aftermath.
A Philippine commuter train rammed through a concrete barrier at the end of the rail line and rolled into a busy intersection on Wednesday, injuring at least 34 people and damaging two vehicles on the street.
Three train cars derailed and 11 people were injured Wednesday after a Swiss mountain train ran into a landslide in the Alps. One carriage slid off the tracks onto a steep slope and was halted by trees.
A storm dumped an entire summer’s worth of rain on parts of Long Island, stranding drivers in roads flooded with door-handle-high water on Wednesday.
After waiting 17 years for O.J. Simpson to pay a $9 million wrongful death judgment, Ronald Goldman’s mother is selling her right to the cash online.
