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Authorities say a civilian training jet on contract to the military has crashed in Southern California and the pilot was killed.

Jurors deliberating in John Edwards' campaign corruption trial are going home for the weekend and will resume their discussions Monday.

Thousands of nurses and other protesters have gathered at a downtown Chicago plaza in the largest protest so far leading up to a two-day NATO summit that is expected to draw even larger demonstrations.

The two branches of Mary Richardson Kennedy's family are planning separate memorial services following her suicide and a contested divorce with husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Officials have lifted quarantines on two Central California dairies linked to a case of mad cow disease, after investigators found the illness didn't come from cattle feed.

An airline pilot is accused of trying to board a flight to New York City with a loaded revolver in his bag, and federal authorities believe he'd been flying with it for two days.

Unemployment rates fell in two-thirds of U.S. states last month, evidence that modest economic growth is boosting hiring in most areas of the country.

Authorities say they've arrested a suspect in two fatal highway shootings that happened late at night along desolate highway stretches.

More firefighters are on their way to a fire that has burned across more than 11 square miles in the northern part of the state and is approaching a reservoir for the city of Greeley.

Museum construction has largely been on hold for months because of a financial dispute between the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.