WASHINGTON (AP) Washington, D.C., voters will elect leaders for federal and local offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied. When do polls close? Polls close at 8 p.m. ET. Whats on the ballot? The...

WASHINGTON (AP) Indiana voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied: When do polls close? Polls close at 6 p.m. local time, which is 6 p.m....

WASHINGTON (AP) Kentucky voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied. When do polls close? Polls close at 6 p.m. local time, which is 6 p.m....

WASHINGTON (AP) Illinois voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied: When do polls close? Polls close at 7 p.m. local time, which is 8 p.m....

WASHINGTON (AP) Connecticut voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied. When do polls close? Polls close at 8 p.m. ET. Whats on the ballot? The...

When Rep. Trey Lamar, a Republican from Senatobia, introduced House Bill 1284 in January to merge six community college districts, college leaders and students quickly launched a petition to shut it down. The bill died in committee, but the question behind it did not: Does Mississippi still need 23 public colleges and universities? I wanted...

WASHINGTON (AP) Colorado voters will elect leaders for federal, state and local offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied: When do polls close? Polls close at 7 p.m. local time, which is 9 p.m....

WASHINGTON (AP) Alabama voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied in Alabama. When do polls close? Polls close at 7 p.m. local time, which is...

WASHINGTON (AP) Idaho voters will elect leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied: When do polls close? Polls close at 8 p.m. local time, which is 10 p.m....

WASHINGTON (AP) Arkansas voters are electing leaders for federal, state and other offices on Tuesday. Here are some key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied. When do polls close? Polls close at 7:30 p.m. local time, which is 8:30 p.m. ET. Whats...

HAVANA (AP) Cuba on Friday welcomed home a diplomat expelled by the United States after an unusually heated confrontation between the two countries representatives at the United Nations this week. Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Pealver posted a photo of Richard Tur de la Concepcin, first secretary of Cubas U.N. mission, alongside Foreign Ministry...

Federal investigators in Oregon will work to determine why a helicopter on a test flight collided with another chopper flown by a young instructor and her student, killing all three people aboard both aircraft. The National Transportation Safety Board said Friday morning that its team was on its way to examine the wreckage near the...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Prosecutors have dropped a felony charge against rapper Rick Ross a month after he was arrested in Miami Beach when a woman he was living with told police he hit her, court records said. The Miami-Dade State Attorneys Office filed paperwork Thursday to drop a felony charge of battery by...

LOS ANGELES (AP) The bun is back. Along with the smile and that silky jump shot. JuJu Watkins is returning to college basketball after missing last season while rehabbing an ACL tear. The star guard who averaged 25.6 points in her first two seasons for Southern California is surrounded by a talent-laden supporting cast...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) Citing new and developing evidence, a prosecutor in Ohio dropped charges Friday against a man arrested in a shooting that wounded 12 people at a crowded neighborhood street festival in June. Eljay Crisp-Carr, 20, had been arrested and accused of multiple counts of attempted murder, felonious assault, gang activity and firearms-related...

DETROIT (AP) Four more people have been charged with participating in a criminal intimidation campaign against University of Michigan officials to try to force the school to cut financial ties to Israel, federal authorities said Friday. The new indictment comes nearly five months after eight pro-Palestinian activists were charged with conspiracy. The ...

Room 219 at the Letty Owings Center in northeast Portland doesnt look like much more than a cramped dorm room, but its where Ashley Amorim spent her first night with Jeremiah, the smiley, blue-eyed baby who she said gave her the motivation to change her life. Inside Oregons largest residential treatment center for pregnant and...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Kansas City Life Insurance Co. (KCLI) on Friday reported profit of $1.7 million in its third quarter. On a per-share basis, the Kansas City, Missouri-based company said it had net income of 18 cents. The insurance company posted revenue of $121.9 million in the period....

Feeling content when your car insurance company labels you a "loyal customer," can deprive you of a lot of money, according to one consumer expert.

HOUSTON (AP) A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer accused of intentionally ramming his car into a Mexican construction worker in Houston was charged Friday with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, prosecutors said. The Harris County District Attorney’s office says Mario Alberto Morales was behind the wheel of an unmarked black vehicle ...

LONDON (AP) Before he captained the Starship Enterprise, Patrick Stewart commanded the Shakespearean stage. And it was the stage to which he returned time and again, even after Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men made him a Hollywood star. The theater was where Stewart felt at home, and where he could fill an...

MONTAUK, N.Y. (AP) Fishermen along the Atlantic coast cast for striped bass, a prized sport fish whose population has declined after years of overfishing and poor reproduction. Climate change and shifting environmental conditions may be adding to the pressures on the species, raising concerns about its future. This is a photo gallery curated by...