Before the big tours and country music award nominations, Bailey Zimmerman was growing up in the small town of Louisville, Illinois, working at the local meat processing plant and laying gas pipeline.

A massive wildfire is churning through Los Padres National Forest in central California, threatening hundreds of homes and injuring at least three people, authorities said.

Customers at North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles are waiting longer in lines that are often far away from home, while agency staffing fails to keep pace with the state's surging population, ...

The story of the Atomic Age's start is a fascinating one about the power of invention and a chilling one about its consequences. In ''The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making ...

When Democratic lawmakers fled Texas to try to prevent the Republican-led Legislature from redrawing the state's congressional districts, it marked the latest episode in a long national history of ...

The San Francisco 49ers went back to a familiar face when coach Kyle Shanahan looked to revive a defensive unit that had gone from dominant to mediocre in recent years.

An Ohio man accused of defrauding the U.S. government through his Minnesota-based nonprofit in the massive Feeding Our Future ...

Cornerback Corey Ballentine has returned to the Green Bay Packers three days after the Indianapolis Colts released him.

Less than 41 hours after his final bows for singing the title role of ''Lohengrin'' at Munich's Bavarian State Opera, Piotr Beczała was 150 miles (241 kilometers) away at the Bayreuth Festpielhaus for ...

They men shared bear hugs, showered praise on each other and made appearances side by side at stadium rallies — a big optics boost for two populist leaders with ideological similarities. Each called ...

When Ecuadorians voted two years ago to block oil drilling in Yasuni National Park, it was a triumph for environmentalists seeking to protect one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. And it was in ...

"When Perpich offered the voters four more years of his service in 1990, the offer was rather resoundingly rejected — a fact ...