SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party ...

SAN JOSE — Former Nicaragua military officer Roberto Samcam was killed on Thursday in Costa Rica, where he was living in exile, his wife and opposition parties said.

Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to own and fly an American flag, according to new polling, which comes ahead of Independence Day.

Missoula has cleared the way for Butte-Silver Bow and any other city or county in Montana to fly the Pride flag despite a new state law.

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association Executive Board approved June 8 the season dates and an advisory committee for girls flag football — the state’s newest sanctioned sport.

Meridian City Council members will hear the last public comment on a public safety levy during its board meeting on Tuesday night at 6 p.m.

Police said one woman was taken to Nebraska Medicine in critical condition after a shooting in Northeast Omaha on the 4th of July.

Attorneys for a Nashua couple who sued the city last year after their request to display right-wing flags outside City Hall was denied filed an appeal with the First Circuit ...

The Yukon government has rescinded an evacuation alert for the area around Ethel Lake, but the nearby wildfire that prompted the advisory on June 24 continues to burn out of control.

A new American flag now flies high at a Decatur nursing home, all thanks to a group of firefighters from DeKalb's Station Three.

It was turned into a self-gratification expose by the president in an attempt to upstage similar parades by other world leaders like those in Russia and North Korea.

Firefighters in Yukon say the wildfire that has put about 100 homes on evacuation alert near Dawson has grown rapidly due to recent weather conditions, more than doubling its size ...