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Four people, two of them students, were shot Sunday near Georgia State University’s Atlanta campus. Authorities said three of the victims were in stable condition and one was in critical condition. Police said the shooting stemmed from a dispute between two groups. They did not reveal whether they had arrested …

The tiny, half-pint cartons of milk served with millions of school lunches nationwide may soon be scarce in some cafeterias, with districts across the country scrambling to find alternatives. The problem is not a shortage of milk itself, but the cardboard cartons used to package and serve it, according to …

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Los Angeles County firefighters got creative to rescue a dog that had fallen into a six-inch-wide gap in West Hollywood, California. Inspector Randall Wright says a dozen firefighters were called to the scene Monday afternoon. They found a 60-pound dog wedged upside down between a house …

NEW YORK – One family of six was living in a homeless-shelter apartment where a dead rat festered on the floor for two days. Another family had no living-room furniture and had been without electricity for days. At a different homeless family shelter, a puddle of urine soiled the floor …

NEW YORK – Police say a taxi hurtled onto a sidewalk and hit four people waiting at a New York City bus stop, killing a man and a 5-year-old girl and injuring two other people. It happened around 6:30 p.m. Friday on Grand Concourse near 170th Street, near the Highbridge …

WASHINGTON – A foundation is awarding grants to 32 innovative projects working to improve cities, totaling $5 million in funding. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is announcing Tuesday that the Knight Cities Challenge will award grants in 12 cities from more than 7,000 proposals. The program was …

NEW YORK – A New York state oversight panel wants federal prosecutors to probe the 2013 death of a mentally ill Rikers Island inmate who was locked in his cell for six days without care or medication. A report obtained by The Associated Press calls Bradley Ballard’s treatment “so incompetent …

TOLEDO, Ohio – A judge’s ruling ordering Ohio officials to return six tigers, a lion and other animals to their owner is on hold for now. The judge on Friday issued a stay to his order from earlier in the week. That means Ohio officials will be able to keep …

CLEARFIELD, Pa. – Police say a Pennsylvania man hoping to pass a fraudulent check instead stole $500 when he found that much money left behind by another customer at a drive-thru bank window. Twenty-eight-year-old Randy Gillen Jr. was in the Clearfield County Jail on Monday, awaiting a Feb. 11 preliminary …

BISHOPVILLE, S.C. – South Carolina corrections officials say they’ve contained a disturbance at a maximum security prison. Corrections Department spokeswoman Stephanie Givens said in a statement that the incident began around noon Thursday at the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville. Givens says an officer was trying to search an inmate …