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Court records say a Kansas City-area man who’s charged with killing his hospitalized wife told police he couldn’t take care of her or afford her medical bills. Ronnie Wiggs made his first appearance Monday on a second-degree murder charge and was referred to the public defender’s office. A hearing was set for Thursday to review his $250,000 bond. H...

A fraternity at the University of Mississippi, where a member last week jeered a Black woman protester by appearing to make ape-like sounds and gestures, said the man has been expelled from the organization.

A Tennessee-based sanitation company is agreeing to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found it illegally hired children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities.

The Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation into Boeing after it learned the company may not have completed required inspections on 787 Dreamliner jets.

King Charles III’s coronation anniversary has been marked in London under soggy skies with ceremonial gunfire.

A week of food deals is hardly enough to repay health care heroes for all the work they do, but National Nurses Week (May 6-12) is certainly a good starting point.

A brighter economic outlook has helped push Social Security’s projected trust fund depletion date to a year later. But there’s still urgency for Congress to act.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently said it’s OK for producers of yogurt to make that claim even though it’s based on limited evidence.

The soldier, who was stationed in Korea and traveled to Russia on his own, is accused of stealing from a woman.

Colorado lawmakers have passed a sweeping bill to overhaul the state’s lax oversight over funeral homes after a series of horrific incidents, including sold body parts, fake ashes and the discovery of 190 decaying bodies.

Brad Parscale says Campaign Nucleus can use AI to help generate customized emails, parse oceans of data to gauge voter sentiment and find persuadable voters.

A gene called APOE4 has long been considered a key risk factor. But new research says if people inherit two copies of that gene, it’s not just a risk — it appears to be the underlying cause.

A Fountain Valley man was disqualified Sunday as winner of the OC marathon.