RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Just call them the Final Five. Dominant. Peerless. Golden. The U.S. women’s gymnastics team gave retiring national team coordinator Martha Karolyi a fitting send off in the Olympic finals on Tuesday night, putting on a two-hour display of precision and class. Their score of 184.897 was more than eight points […]

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas reported its first Zika-related death Tuesday after a baby girl whose mother traveled to El Salvador while pregnant died shortly after birth in a suburban Houston hospital. The girl, who died a few weeks ago, had microcephaly linked to the Zika virus, said Dr. Umair Shah, executive director of Harris County […]

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Gunshots rang out after a car struck a protester during a demonstration in Ferguson, Missouri, on the second anniversary of Michael Brown‘s death, disrupting what had been a peaceful gathering but apparently striking no one. Witnesses told The Associated Press that a car drove through a group of protesters who were […]

The police accused a father of fatally shooting his 11-year-old daughter. Authorities said he lied to them about the incident.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas waterslide billed as the world’s tallest remained off-limits Monday as authorities pressed to figure out how a state lawmaker’s 10-year-old son died of a neck injury while riding it. Details remained murky about what happened Sunday to Caleb Thomas Schwab on the 168-foot-tall “Verruckt” — German for “insane” […]

NEW YORK (AP) — NBC announcer Al Trautwig said Monday he regrets tweeting that the adoptive mother and father of American gymnastics star Simone Biles were not her parents, a declaration that angered advocates for adoption. Trautwig had been scolded by a woman on Twitter for not referring to Ron and Nellie Biles as the […]

Thanks to the generosity of a stranger, Tonia Handy got the chance to see her girls go for the gold.

The USA women's gymnastics team obviously did not come to play, as they literally vaulted ahead of the competition during the qualifying round on Sunday.

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The first family will enjoy the island for two weeks, before a busy fall.

Fred Barley was hit with criticism when the woman who created his GoFundMe campaign, Casey Blaney, questioned how he was going to use the money.

Roof suffered minor bruises on the face and back, according to a jail spokesperson.