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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans police say they've obtained video showing a possible suspect in the shooting that wounded 19 people at a Mother's Day parade. By CHEVEL JOHNSON...

WILLMAR -- When Sen. Al Franken speaks at college commencements, he urges graduates to hug their parents, "a lot." Franken stopped in Willmar on Saturday on his way to deliver...

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Ohio attorney general says tests have confirmed that alleged kidnapper Ariel Castro is the father of a 6-year-old girl rescued from his house with three women...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The wet start to the corn planting season may reduce the amount each acre produces this year, but farmers are planting so much corn they're...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fannie Mae said something Thursday that would have been unthinkable a few years ago: It earned a record $58.7 billion profit in the January-March quarter. By MARCY...

FARGO, N.D. -- A new head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency got an earful from U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., and a roomful of farmers and...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supporters and opponents of sweeping immigration legislation faced off Thursday as a Senate committee began considering hundreds of amendments that could improve the bill's chances of eventual...

BOSTON (AP) -- The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in an undisclosed location outside the city of Worcester, where it had been held for...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits fell by 4,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 323,000, a five-year low. Layoffs have returned to pre-recession...