SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) âÄî Gov. Bill Richardson, who has supported capital punishment, signed legislation to repeal New Mexico's death penalty, calling it the "most difficult decision in my political...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) âÄî Minnesota's unemployment rate continued to climb in February, hitting a seasonally adjusted 8.1 percent as the state shed another 13,300 jobs. The state Department of Employment...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) âÄî A video released this week by a central Connecticut police department shows a former officer pummeling an unresisting suspect with his fists in an expletive-laced beating...

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) âÄî Federal investigators say alcohol contributed to the death of a Minnesota teen who fell through a platform gap on New York's Long Island Rail Road. The National Transportation...

DALLAS (AP) âÄî School district documents show employees at a Dallas high school staged cage fights among troubled students, making them settle their differences with bare-knuckled brawls in a...

WASHINGTON (AP) âÄî At least 13 firms receiving billions of dollars in bailout money owe a total of more than $220 million in unpaid federal taxes, a key lawmaker said Thursday. Rep. John Lewis,...

New population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show that several counties around the Twin Cities metro area continue to rapidly add population, while many Red River Valley counties continue to lose....

MINNEOTA, Minn. (AP) âÄî Everything is on the table as a small town in southwestern Minnesota considers cutting its budget, including eliminating its police department. Officials in Minneota (Min-ee-oh'-tuh)...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) âÄî New flood projections for Fargo gave city officials a shock âÄî not only because of a higher forecast for the Red River, but because they have only a little more than...

INDIANA, Pa. (AP) âÄî A suspended Pennsylvania state trooper faces life in prison after a jury convicted him in the bloody slashing death of a dentist who was divorcing the lawman's live-in girlfriend....