An Orange County defense attorney suffered a bloodied face and fractured nose after a brawl with a district attorney’s investigator in a courthouse hallway, his lawyer said. James Crawford was speaking with a witness in the courthouse Wednesday morning when an investigator asked him who he was and called defense… Read More

A man suspected of intentionally driving a snowmobile into teams of two mushers near the front of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was arrested Saturday in a Yukon River village. Arnold Demoski, 26, of Nulato was arrested on suspicion of assault, reckless endangerment, reckless driving and six counts of… Read More

An Amtrak train has derailed in southwest Kansas, sending about 20 people to the hospital. An Amtrak statement says the train was traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago early Monday when it derailed just after midnight about 20 miles west of Dodge City. Kansas Highway Patrol communication specialist Patricia Munford… Read More

With hopes of speeding development of self-driving cars, General Motors has acquired a small software company that’s been testing vehicles on the streets of San Francisco. The Detroit automaker says it purchased Cruise Automation, a 40-person firm that was founded just three years ago. The move, coupled with GM’s in-house… Read More

The decision by the owner of a small insurance company to require his employees to carry firearms at the office has sparked a debate: Would having a gun on the job make you safer, or is it inviting violence into the workplace? Lance Toland said his three offices, based at… Read More

A rare letter written by the poet Walt Whitman for a wounded Civil War soldier has been found in the National Archives. The Washington Post reports it was discovered last month by an Archives volunteer on a team preparing Civil War widows’ pension files to be digitized and placed online. It’s… Read More

A 93-year-old Ohio woman has received the high school diploma she was denied in 1942 because of rules that expelled married students. Dorothy Liggett was a few weeks from graduation from Akron’s North High School when officials discovered she was married. Akron Public Schools Superintendent David James hand-delivered the diploma… Read More

As most Americans brace themselves for losing an hour of sleep this weekend, some corners of the country are considering bold alternatives to daylight saving time. California has a bill that would ask voters to abolish the practice of changing clocks twice a year. Lawmakers in Alaska and nearly a… Read More

A second round of rain early Thursday was hitting an already inundated north Louisiana, where flooding in some places was up to the rooftops and in others submerged cars, stranded families and forced evacuations. Three people drowned in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. In Bienville Parish, authorities said a man died… Read More

A fugitive wanted by Idaho authorities for wounding a church pastor apparently wrote a manifesto contending that Martians controlled the Earth, police said. Kyle Odom, 30, was arrested at about 5:30 p.m., Tuesday by U.S. Secret Service agents after allegedly throwing items over the fence at the White House. “I… Read More