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Hurricane Melissa slammed into southwestern Jamaica as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, packing 185 mph winds and torrential rains that leveled homes and flooded entire towns. The storm left over ...

Week 8 in the NFL was one of the most lopsided since the merger with the AFL in 1970. Only one game was decided by single ...

An Illinois jury convicted a former sheriff's deputy of second-degree murder Wednesday in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, ...

Putin launched initiatives to encourage people to have more children. New laws ban the promotion of abortion and "child-free ...

Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School Is on lockdown, according to Dr. Erica S. Taylor, Orangeburg County School District’s ...

The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Wednesday for a second time this year as it seeks to shore up economic growth ...

An 18-year-old Columbia man is accused of having a gun on the campus of South Carolina State University on the night of Oct.

The sheriff's department initially said the monkeys were carrying diseases including herpes, but Tulane University said in a ...

Penn State-Ohio State Week was expected to be this week's top game before season started. Instead, No. 9 Vanderbilt takes on ...

A pet dog fell off an oceanside bluff in San Francisco and spent more than 20 minutes clinging to a narrow ledge until ...

A Pennsylvania man, Subramanyam Vedam, whose murder conviction was overturned after he served 43 years in prison hoped to walk free this month, but instead found himself in immigration custody.