FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Frustrated residents complained of food shortages in some neighborhoods of Sierra Leone’s capital on Sunday as the country reached the third and final day of a sweeping, unprecedented lockdown designed to combat the deadly Ebola disease, volunteers said. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of getting inside the White House after scaling a fence is a veteran who was awarded a medal for his service in Iraq and retired due to disability, the Army said Sunday. Authorities have identified the intruder from Friday night’s shocking incident as ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say Grammy-nominated R&B singer Keyshia Cole has been arrested on suspicion of battery after an altercation early Friday morning in Los Angeles. Los Angeles police officer Nuria Vanegas says Cole was arrested around 5 a.m. after someone initiated a private ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An attorney for the family of a Black man who was killed by Utah police said Friday he will ask the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the shooting. Lawyer Randall Edwards said at a news conference that it’s likely 22-year-old Darrien Hunt was dressed as a ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Maria Lennon said she felt some relief when she heard the news Friday afternoon: A judge had finalized a $190 million settlement between Johns Hopkins Hospital and more than 8,000 patients of a gynecologist who used tiny cameras to secretly photograph women and girls during ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Emmy-winning actress and singer Polly Bergen, who in a long career played the terrorized wife in the original “Cape Fear” and the first woman president in “Kisses for My President,” died Saturday, according to her publicist. She was 84. Bergen died at her ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico reggaeton star Don Omar has been charged with four counts of domestic violence following his arrest in the U.S. territory, police said Thursday. Police spokesman Angel Mariani said by telephone that 36-year-old William Omar Landron Rivera faces two ...

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Officers shot and killed a man after he allegedly pointed a rifle at them in suburban St. Louis, the second fatal police shooting of a Black suspect in the region since the August shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Two officers fired a combined 25 shots Wednesday night ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — In a desperate bid to slow West Africa’s accelerating Ebola outbreak, Sierra Leone ordered its 6 million people confined to their homes for three days starting Friday while volunteers conduct a house-to-house search for victims in hiding. At an emergency ...

Keisha St. Joan has been singing at some of the most famous jazz clubs in the nation for more than five decades. She was paid $50 a night when she sang in “Three Guys and a Doll” in 1958. Now, at age 75 and nearing retirement, she has no pension to fall back on—and is […]

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP)– Police in Prince George’s County say they’ve arrested a man in connection with the fatal shooting of a toddler in Landover in August. Police say they arrested Davon Wallace on Tuesday in connection with the shooting of 3-year-old Knijah Amore Bibb. ...

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia’s president called Wednesday on the world to do more to end a spiraling Ebola outbreak, saying “Liberia cannot defeat Ebola alone.” President Barrack Obama announced Tuesday that he will order 3,000 military personnel to West Africa to help ...