Category: National news from the Associated Press

HOUSTON (AP) — Police chief: 2 fatalities confirmed after large warehouse explosion shakes…

BOSTON (AP) — John Kapoor, founder of pharmaceutical company Insys, gets 5 1/2 years in prison for orchestrating opioid…

The January gold contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange closed today at $1564.60 an ounce — up $9.30. The current silver contract on the…

NEW YORK (AP) — PBS says journalist Jim Lehrer of the ‘MacNeil-Lehrer Report’ has died at…

DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Woman convicted of manslaughter for texting her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself has been released from…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pope accepts Charles Chaput’s resignation as Philadelphia archbishop; Bishop Nelson Pérez of Cleveland to succeed…

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Fire Department says six people were shot downtown Wednesday night, and one of those people has…

WASHINGTON (AP) — US home sales soared 3.8% in December, but fast-rising prices are creating affordability…