(BELLWOOD, Ill., AP) — An Illinois sheriff’s investigator was fatally shot while trying to break up an armed robbery outside a family Christmas party, authorities said Saturday. Cuauhtemoc Estrada, 50,… Read more »

By TAMMY WEBBER (CHICAGO, AP) — Freezing rain. Snow. Thunderstorms. Even tornadoes. Much of the nation braced for foul weather on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year,… Read more »

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., AP) — Miriam Rand and Ono Porter were having lunch when the couple got a call that they’d been waiting for, for three decades: New… Read more »

(HOLLIS, N.H., AP) — Police in southern New Hampshire say a man dressed as Santa Claus was only trying to spread some cheer but ended up panicking officials when he… Read more »

By THOMAS J. SHEERAN, Associated Press (CLEVELAND, AP) — A judge handed down a 28-year prison sentence Monday to a man convicted of masterminding a $100 million, cross-country Navy veterans… Read more »

(MIAMI, AP) — Two Guantanamo Bay prisoners have been transferred to Saudi Arabia as part of a renewed effort to close the offshore U.S. prison. U.S. officials say the two… Read more »

By IBRAHIM BARZAK (GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip, AP) — Rescue workers evacuated more than 5,000 Gaza Strip residents from homes flooded by four days of heavy rain, using fishing boats… Read more »

(PUTNAM VALLEY, N.Y., AP) — A New York man who went to check on an acquaintance and found him dead at his home is accused of stealing some of the… Read more »