RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina election officials will send mailers to about 200,000 voters asking them to provide information missing from their state registration records, seeking to address a Republican concern raised during a protracted legal fight…

Devastated California teen hiker’s dad recalls haunting remark before son plunged off cliff: ‘This was not reality’ - Exclusive: “I made a motion to try to grab him, but...he was too far,” Zane Wach’s distraught Dad, Ryan, told The Independent as his son…

A Tennessee sheriff’s deputy was knocked unconscious and hospitalized in critical condition after a suspect threw rocks during a pursuit, an incident caught on the show "On Patrol: Live." The suspect has been charged with attempted murder, and the community…

From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. Then the Islamic Revolution swept the country.