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A former Mafia hit man has been sentenced to 25 years in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James 'Whitey' ...

Prosecutors said Fotios “Freddy” Geas used a lock attached to a belt to repeatedly hit the 89-year-old Bulger in the head ...

Prosecutors initially had said Geas used a lock attached to a belt to repeatedly hit the 89-year-old Bulger in the head.

A former Mafia hitman has been sentenced to 25 years in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.

Hurricane Idalia’s massive storm surge tore through Florida’s Big Bend ... While the area’s sparse population means the cost of Idalia’s devastation will pale in comparison to damage caused by ...

Declining mortgage rates have boosted housing affordability to its highest level since February, but record-high down ...

Rebekah Mackenzie Tate, 23, allegedly hit a 34-year-old motorcyclist so hard early Sunday morning that his helmet flew off, and he was left in the middle of the roadway.

A Florida county is in talks to acquire a storied but aging ocean liner in a proposed deal that could create the largest artificial reef in the world.

We discuss what's at stake over felon voting in Nebraska, and why dam breaches are a national concern. It’s all on The ...

Florida State has fallen out of The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll after starting the season 0-2.

The number of births in Japan for the first half of the year dropped to the lowest since 1969, preliminary government data ...