MINNEAPOLIS — Vox Payne heard the screams and instantly knew where they were coming from.

“I immediately texted my next-door neighbor and we both were like, ‘That was the tower, wasn’t it?’” Payne said.

Her house sits in the shadow of an abandoned grain elevator in south Minneapolis that’s become a dangerous hot spot for urban ...Read more

TROY, N.Y. — Like many residents of this aging industrial city on the Hudson River, Starletta Washington was stunned when she heard Troy’s last remaining hospital planned to close its birthing center.

“It was devastating,” said Washington, who heads the local YWCA. Washington was born at the hospital and had her children there. She ...Read more

Three fires across Mendocino County grew to a combined 59,214 acres by Saturday afternoon as firefighters worked to establish containment lines.

The most recent is the Lucas fire, which started Thursday morning near Bachelor Valley on the border of Lake County and Mendocino County. Fueled by northwest winds, it reached 3,846 acres by noon ...Read more

Brazil’s Chief Justice Edson Fachin has given the Federal Police 24 hours to provide information regarding the custody and condition of the data extracted from the mobile phone of Daniel Vorcaro, former owner of Banco Master, according to a ruling issued this Saturday.

This is the latest development in the investigation into the $10 billion ...Read more

Christine Lagarde entered France’s presidential election fray at a political gathering on Saturday, as speculation builds that she’ll leave the European Central Bank early.

Her speech in rural Normandy transported her far from the technicalities of setting interest rates, just days after she and her ECB colleagues delivered a second hike to...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A much-anticipated report of the spending habits of Florida’s emergency and disaster agency was finally released two months past deadline, revealing a $1.5 billion, worst-case-scenario deficit by next summer.

The report was released Friday, about an hour before a legislative committee charged with reviewing budget ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Three months after Huntington Beach updated its housing element in response to mounting fines, the state is pushing for additional penalties based on regulators’ conclusion that the city’s plan is still out of compliance.

In May, Orange County Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal ordered the city to pay a late fee of $10...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two young people riding in an autonomous vehicle were arrested in San Francisco after authorities allegedly found them in possession of an illegal "ghost gun."

San Francisco Police Department did not identify the operator of the autonomous vehicle, but a Waymo spokesperson confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that the incident ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump expressed optimism about resolving a trade fight with Canada and downplayed the prospect of quitting a continental trade pact, in a potential sign of deescalating tensions between the two countries.

Trump was asked Saturday whether he intended to have the U.S. leave the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Konoa Wilson was running for his life after gunshots rang out at the Santa Fe Depot train station early last year when he nearly collided with San Diego police Officer Daniel Gold.

Gold said he instantly thought Konoa was the gunman and made the split-second decision to open fire, striking the 16-year-old boy twice and killing him...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A trespasser tried to enter former Vice President Kamala Harris’ cliffside home in Malibu on Friday evening, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and a Harris spokesman.

Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, were not home at the time, according to Eduardo Negrón, a spokesperson for Harris. He did not ...Read more

NEW YORK — Two stick-up men have pleaded guilty to bank robberies, but not to charges they used guns during their crimes — a legal maneuver their attorneys hope will help rewrite the law on whether a bank heist is technically a crime of violence.

One of the bank bandits, Vincenzo Randazzo, has an uphill battle when it comes to beating the ...Read more

CHICAGO — Exactly one year after Silverio Villegas González was shot and killed by an immigration enforcement agent during a traffic stop, his neighbors returned to the stretch of Grand Avenue in the western suburbs where he died.

But those who gathered in Franklin Park Saturday morning came not only to remember Villegas González. They ...Read more

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending the lone juror who refused to vote to acquit Lindsay Clancy of murder in the killing of her three children.

The juror, who has not been identified, single-handedly prevented a unanimous not-guilty verdict in the case, splitting the panel 11-1 on whether to find Clancy not guilty because of mental disease ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A trespasser tried to enter former Vice President Kamala Harris' cliffside home in Malibu on Friday evening, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and a Harris spokesman.

Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, were not home at the time, according to Eduardo Negrón, a spokesperson for Harris. He did not respond ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Living in Maryland next year could cost more, as state lawmakers consider raising taxes to address projected budget shortfalls and giving local governments greater power to raise revenue themselves.

This year, Democratic leaders cut services and pushed costs to the local level to keep their promise not to increase fees, a move ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a rare rebuke of a campus event, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk on Friday distanced the university from a law school symposium about the 9/11 terrorist attacks that has faced criticism for including a lawyer for alleged 9/11 "mastermind" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, along with speakers whom critics accuse of sympathizing with ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphians reacted with outrage when Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences announced the closing of its museum on the Ben Franklin Parkway earlier this month.

But the museum is only a part of what the academy does. And while most Philadelphians think of dinosaurs and dioramas, the main business of the ...Read more