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A perjury and obstruction trial set for closing arguments Monday pits Pennsylvania's attorney general against two former confidants who testified that she leaked grand jury evidence to a newspaper and lied about it…

Attention shoppers! Developers say a new shopping center will be opening within the next month in North Columbus. 

Each of the events below occurred on the same day of the month, August 15. 1912: Chef and author Julia Child is born in Pasadena, California.

For the first time in ten years, people with chronic back pain now have a new option to get them back on their feet.  The FDA recently approved the newest generation of artificial lumbar discs and some

People in Ascension Parish are bracing for higher water and preparing to possibly leave their homes, as a voluntary evacuation is in place for some parts. One of the areas where the water has been rising is

The woman told an acquaintance that she had killed her children. He did not believe her until she repeated her claim, and he took her to police.

When police identified Sylville Smith as the Milwaukee man shot by an officer Saturday, triggering a violent uprising on the city's mostly black north side, Chief Edward Flynn cited Smith's “lengthy criminal record.”

First African Baptist Church of Columbus celebrated their 176th anniversary on Sunday.   

The black man whose killing by police touched off rioting in Milwaukee was shot by a black officer after turning toward him with a gun in his hand, the police chief said Sunday, as Wisconsin's governor put