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Temperatures soared to 96 degrees in Wilmington, North Carolina on Thursday. So, Melissa Martin and Denise Mintz gathered up their dogs Abby, Harpo and Izzy and headed to a nearby pond for a swim. Hours later, all three pups were dead.

#PermitPatty. #BBQBetty. #CornerstoreCaroline. #GolfCartGail. A series of videos posted on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube this year show black people being badgered by white people as they swim, barbecue, babysit or engage in other everyday activities. The widely shared confrontations, often with alliterative hashtags, drew enormous audiences for what might have once been private disputes. Here are some of the...

A man accused of beating a black man during the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month has been arrested in Georgia.

An 18-year-old has been arrested in the brutal beating of a black man during the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this month, and a second suspect is wanted by police.

A driver mows down six mailboxes, slurs her words and tells police she has a lizard in her bra. Throw in a wisecracking police officer, and what do you get? A flippant post on Facebook, along with photos of the woman, and of course, her lizard.

In “Star Wars, Episode IV,” Obi-Wan Kenobi said, “In my experience there is no such thing as luck.” Steve Sansweet thinks differently.

Dion Rogers scored 28 points, Ryan Harris added 21 and Texas Wesleyan defeated Life University 86-76 on Tuesday night to win its second NAIA championship.

Oklahoma has won the Big 12 football championship a record 10 times under coach Bob Stoops.

Rabbi Joel Mosbacher had just finished the morning’s Shabbat service when he got an urgent message: Rabbis were needed at New York’s Kennedy Airport. People were being detained under President Donald Trump’s sharp travel restrictions on refugees. Would he come pray?...
By sundown, Mosbacher was part a group of rabbis at the airport, playing guitar and conducting a Havdalah service marking...

With gunshots ringing out just feet away, Eddie Justice hid in a bathroom in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and frantically texted his mother for help. “Call police,” he wrote. “I’m gonna die.” Moments later, he texted again: “Call them mommy. Now. He’s coming.” Justice, who would later be confirmed among the 49 people killed in last month’s attack,...

More than 100 women who blame their pregnancies on errant birth control packaging have joined a negligence lawsuit filed in Philadelphia against several drug companies.

A jury has found a Florida man guilty of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a teenager after an argument over loud music outside a Jacksonville convenience store.

Prosecutors Thursday described a white Florida man accused of fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager during an argument over loud music as a cold killer who fired multiple times into an SUV. His defense countered during his retrial that the man felt threatened and fired in self-defense.