ST. LOUIS (AP) — The worst of the dangerous, deadly winter flood is over in the St. Louis area, leaving residents of several water-logged communities to spend the first day of 2016... READ MORE »

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — People with hepatitis C who drink alcohol or stop using their medications would lose Medicaid coverage under a proposal approved by a Kansas legislative committee. The... READ MORE »

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix firefighters rescued a 13-year-old boy who got stuck in a chimney while playing with his friends on a roof. The boy's friends called 911 and their parents after he... READ MORE »

HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama will meet Monday with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to discuss executive actions he could take to make it harder for "a dangerous few" to get their... READ MORE »

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A towering inferno that engulfed a 63-story luxury hotel in Dubai on New Year's Eve burned on into the first morning of 2016 as firefighters tried to... READ MORE »

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Officials are preparing for the possible shutdown of a major interstate highway south of St. Louis amid historic flooding that has already left at least 20 people dead.... READ MORE »

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Drunken-driving charges against an upstate New York woman have been dismissed based on an unusual defense: Her body is a brewery. The woman was arrested while driving... READ MORE »

ELKINS PARK, Pa. (AP) -- Entertainer Bill Cosby has long maintained that his extramarital conquests over the years were all consensual. A jury may ultimately decide if that's true after... READ MORE »

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian naval vessels conducted rocket tests last week near U.S. warships and commercial traffic passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the American... READ MORE »

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Rescue crews in Northern California tranquilized a wayward seal that snarled traffic for two days by trying to cross a highway several times. A veterinarian using a... READ MORE »