By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press A former University of South Florida student has been charged with killing his roommate and the roommate's girlfriend — two doctoral students from Bangladesh who disappeared earlier this month, authorities said Saturday. Hisham Abugharbieh, 26, is facing ...

By AARON KESSLER and TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press At the peak of the crackdown, carloads of masked immigration officers were a common sight in the streets of Minneapolis, while thousands of people were being arrested every week in Texas, Florida and California. "Turn and burn," top ...

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Stanley Richards knows how bleak life can be at Rikers Island, New York City's notorious jail complex. As a young man, he spent two years locked up there for robbery. Now, he runs the place as the city's new Department of Correction ...

W WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said it launched another strike Friday on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people. The Trump administration's campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted ...

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Okello Chatrie's cellphone gave him away. Chatrie made off with $195,000 from the bank he robbed in suburban Richmond, Virginia, and eluded the police until they turned to a powerful technological tool that erected a virtual fence and ...

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and JOSHUA A. BICKEL Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — On Newport's south side, historic and opulent mansions sit on an avenue with mature trees that help cool the neighborhoods, clean the air and foster wildlife. On the city's poorer North End, where some ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tick season seems to be off to a fast start, with an unusually high number of bites already reported across the country. Some U.S. doctors are worried about the potential for a bad year for tick-borne diseases. "If you have a lot of exposures, there will probably be more ...

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has made it clear he expects his choice for Federal Reserve chair to quickly cut interest rates once he takes office. Yet Americans shouldn't pencil in lower borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, or ...

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies was sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday in a case that forced the state to clamp down on an industry ...

By EMILIE MEGNIEN and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press NAHUNTA, Ga. (AP) — A volunteer firefighter died battling a wildfire in northern Florida while more than 120 homes have been destroyed in southeast Georgia and thousands more remain threatened by two large blazes, one of which ...