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BOSTON – Prosecutors want panels of the boat in which Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) was found hiding to be brought to court to show jurors what they say is his written confession. But Tsarnaev’s attorneys object to the plan and want the jury instead to go …

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Leon Kent, who led a group of American soldiers that knocked out five German tanks and held up the enemy advance during the Battle of the Bulge, has died. He was 99. His family tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/17gLdIM ) that Kent had pneumonia and …

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia environmental officials say Duke Energy has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement over a massive coal ash spill in the Dan River last year. The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality announced the settlement Friday. The settlement would include $2.25 million in environmental projects that Duke would …

Tennessee authorities on Tuesday evening announced the capture of fugitive Sean Williams, who is accused of raping women and children, in Florida after a weeks-long chase down the East Coast. Williams, former owner of Glass and Concrete Contracting LLC in Johnson City, was recently arrested and charged with 20 counts …

An eastern Wisconsin man has been charged in a wrong-way collision that killed four siblings last weekend, authorities said. Scott Farmer, of Neenah, is charged with four counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle in Saturday’s crash in Weyauwega, about 100 miles northwest of Milwaukee. Farmer, 47, …

A husband-and-wife duo allegedly slaughtered four family members on Halloween 2015 and made pointed, emotional comments directed at the supposed “killer” just days after the quadruple murder. The bodies of Cathy Taylor Scott, 60, Violet Taylor, 82, Mike Scott, 58, and Mike’s mother, Barbara Scott, 80, were found dead in …

A man who allegedly stabbed two teenage girls at New York City’s Grand Central Terminal this Christmas while shouting, “I want all White people dead” was free despite concerns over his violent mental state, reports said. Steven Hutcherson, 36, then also reportedly slashed a fellow inmate with a blade after …

Since 2010, the number of internet users around the world has more than doubled. As more people have gone online for work, school, gaming and googling, an increasing number of data centers is helping the web run quickly and efficiently. “This digitization of our economy is a good thing, but …

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff bomb team recovered an unexploded WWII-era U.S. Navy practice bomb that washed ashore on the Parajo Dunes on New Year’s Eve after powerful storms in the Pacific Ocean sent massive waves slamming along the California coast. Images captured by the sheriff’s office show an old, …

A New Jersey man has been missing for about a week as a “mega-fire” ravages the Grand Canyon National Park. Thomas Daniel Gibbs, 35, of Freehold, New Jersey, was last heard from by his friends and family at approximately 12 p.m. on July 22, the National Park Service said in …