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VANTAGE, Wash. – Engineers have found a 65-foot-long crack in a Columbia River dam in central Washington. Grant County Public Utility District officials say they plan to lower the water level at the Wanapum Dam, just south of Vantage near Interstate 90. Officials plan to lower the water level by 20 feet so inspectors can get a better idea of …

Las Vegas Sands Corp. confirmed Friday that information about some customers of its Pennsylvania casino was stolen during a data breach earlier this month. All of the Las Vegas-based company’s sites were down for six days starting Feb. 11, after hackers posted images apparently condemning CEO Sheldon Adelson’s views about using nuclear weapons on Iran. Sands said hackers crashed its …

Four people have been shot at a tax preparation office on Detroit’s east side. Police say one man has been arrested and they are seeking at least one woman in the Friday afternoon shooting which followed a fight over money inside the business.

An attack by a group of knife-wielding men at a train station in southwestern China on Saturday left at least 33 dead and 143 injured. Of the 33 who died, four were masked assailants killed by the police, according to reports of the Xinhua news agency.

Editor’s note: Political Smackdown is a weekly Friday column on the major political battle of the week, whether it is among elected officials, political parties, or members of the media. Fox News host Bill O’Reilly took on White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett Thursday night over President Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper,” a White House initiative that seeks to create more …

UMES is without a campus queen with this week’s dethroning of Porsha Simone Harvey, who was charged with disruptive behavior in an exchange with a campus police officer, and, in a separate incident, cited for possessing marijuana in a Somerset County courthouse.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials credit vigilance for the recovery of a 1965 Volkswagen Beetle stolen nearly 40 years ago. The car, being shipped to Finland, turned up in Detroit on January 30. Border officials worked with the National Insurance Crime Bureau and confirmed it was the same vehicle taken in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1974.

Hundreds-of-thousands of people have watched the story around the globe: a Holmes County, Mississippi man was pronounced dead and came back to life late Wednesday night. Friday afternoon, Walter “Snowball” Williams was alive and well, according to his family. People on social media want to know: who was there when Williams started moving?

The fluffy red carpet chatter, those musical opening shout-outs to top contenders, the parade of gilded trophies and one speech after another thanking directors, agents and publicists — now 86 years old, Oscar night can feel like slipping on a pair of familiar old slippers. And yet — once in a blue moon — the Academy Awards get a bit …

Many Twitter users were in for a shock when a group of Islamic extremists live-tweeted images on Friday of a blindfolded man whose hand was being cut off as a punishment for robbery. According to the responsible group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the man was a thief and had requested to be punished by having his had …

The bitter feud between the Ford brothers and Toronto’s police chief reached remarkable new heights Thursday as the mayor dared Bill Blair to put up or shut up: “If he’s going to arrest me, arrest me. I have done nothing wrong.”