Author Archives: Associated Press

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - His Hollywood career and good-guy image in ruins, an 81-year-old Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, becom...

By David Bauder, The Associated Press NEW YORK - Paul Simon ended his final concert tour under a moonlit sky on home turf Saturday, telling an audience in a Queens, N.Y. park that their cheers "mean m...

By Claire Galofaro And Jeffrey Collins, The Associated Press WILMINGTON, N.C. - Exhaustion and frustration are building in the Carolinas as thousands of people wait to go home days after Hurricane Flo...

By Chuck Burton And Martha Waggoner WILMINGTON, N.C. - The death toll from Hurricane Florence climbed to at least 37, including two mental health patients who drowned when a sheriff's van was swept aw...

Chuck Burton, The Associated Press WILMINGTON, N.C. - With Wilmington cut off from the rest of North Carolina by still-rising floodwaters from Florence, officials plan to airlift food and water to the...

By Allen G. Breed, The Associated Press NEW BERN, N.C. - Emergency workers went door to door urging people to flee Florence's rising waters Saturday and rescuers used inflatable boats to pluck others ...

By Jonathan Drew, The Associated Press WILMINGTON, N.C. - Blowing ashore with howling 90 mph winds, Hurricane Florence splintered buildings, trapped hundreds of people and swamped entire communities a...

Millions of people in the path of Hurricane Florence are frantically preparing for a monster storm that's anticipated to make landfall sometime early Saturday morning. Residents in states from Virgini...

CINCINNATI - A gunman opened fire Thursday morning in a building in the heart of Cincinnati in an attack that left him and three other people dead, police said. The shooting sent people scrambling acr...

By Colette Derworiz in Edmonton. CALGARY - A University of Calgary researcher says new concussion guidelines in the United States could change care for all children with mild traumatic brain injuries....