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Police in Rhode Island are looking for Alphonse Capone. No, not the infamous Chicago gangster. Providence police say a 19-year-old city man was robbed Wednesday of a $415 pair of sneakers he was trying to sell to a man who used the name Alphonse Capone on Facebook.

Maine is going to be well represented aboard the International Space Station. Caribou native Jessica Meir is already aboard the ISS and took part in an all-women space walk. In April, she’ll be joined by Chris Cassidy, who went to high school in York.

The shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world’s most wanted man, is dead after being targeted by a U.S. military raid in Syria, President Donald Trump said Sunday. “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead,” Trump announced at the White House, saying the U.S. had “brought the world’s number one terrorist...

Maybe it was a quid pro quo after all. A top U.S. diplomat told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that President Donald Trump was withholding military aid to Ukraine unless the country’s president went public with a promise to investigate Democrats. William Taylor’s 15-page opening statement — delivered as part of a closed-door deposition — is now central to the...

William Taylor, a top diplomat to Ukraine, testified to Congress on Tuesday that President Donald Trump withheld security aid in exchange for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s investigation into the Biden family.

The cease-fire in northern Syria got off to a rocky start Friday, as Kurdish leaders accused Turkey of violating the accord with continued fighting at a key border town while casting doubt on provisions in the U.S.-brokered deal with Ankara. Turkey’s president warned that Turkish forces would go back on the attack in four days unless Kurdish-led fighters withdraw “without...

Vice President Mike Pence announced a negotiated temporary cease-fire in Syria. The agreement comes after a weeklong invasion by Turkey into the region against Kurdish allies of the U.S. military. 

Ohio’s capital city agreed Friday to pay porn actress Stormy Daniels $450,000 to settle a lawsuit over her arrest at a strip club last year, the latest fallout traced to the city’s now-disbanded vice unit. Daniels’ federal defamation complaint against several Columbus officers alleged police conspired to retaliate against her over her claims that she had sex with Donald Trump...

A Jacksonville-based U.S. Coast Guard crew intercepted over 12,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, worth over $165 million. While on routine patrol earlier this month, the Coast Guard Cutter Valiant crew interdicted a self-propelled, semi-submersible vessel in international waters that was carrying approximately six tons of cocaine and four suspected drug smugglers, officials said in a statement....

A 41-year-old Green Beret who was on his fourth combat deployment has been killed by small arms fire in Afghanistan. U.S. Army Special Operations Command spokesman Loren Bymer at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg said in a statement that Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy W. Griffin died Monday. Griffin was from Greenbrier, Tennessee, and was a Special Forces communications sergeant based at...

A popular Rhode Island bar has been temporarily shut down after a stabbing in the area. The Providence Journal reports that several people were removed from the Providence GPub after a disturbance on the rooftop early Sunday morning. Police Commander Thomas Verdi says the individuals wound up in a garage nearby where a 27-year-old victim was stabbed.

A search is underway for a missing boater in mid-coast Maine. The Maine Marine Patrol and state police divers are searching for the 63-year-old Breman man after his skiff was found adrift in Round Pond Harbor on Monday night.

The U.S. Coast Guard says the commanding officer of a cutter that’s homeported in Maine has been relieved of his duties. The Coast Guard says Rear Admiral Andrew Tiongson, the First Coast Guard District Commander, removed Chief Warrant Officer J.L. Horne on Aug. 7. It says in a statement the decision was made “due to a loss of confidence in...

The U.S. Navy has dropped charges against four SEALs involving alleged abuse of detainees in Afghanistan in 2012.

The head of the Navy SEALs says the special forces have a problem and is demanding change within its ranks, according to a strongly worded letter written to his command and obtained by NBC News on Friday.

Members of an elite U.S. Navy platoon are accused of drinking while stationed in Iraq and refusing to answer questions regarding an allegation against a senior enlisted member, according to several published reports.

A Navy SEAL platoon stationed in Iraq to fight threats posed by the Islamic State was ordered back to San Diego early after reported misconduct, according to the U.S. Special Operations Command.

A man has been charged in the death of Zoe Spears, a 23-year-old transgender woman fatally shot last month in Prince George’s County.

An active shooter drill gone wrong in the Loop Thursday afternoon sparked a massive police and fire response after building management failed to notify employees of their planned exercise, Chicago police officials said.

Some simple eligibility rules have kept some of the year’s best shows out of the Emmy race for now