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LLANO, Texas — A small-town Texas library system threatened with extinction was spared Thursday after the Llano County commissioners said they would abide by a federal judge’s order to restore the books they banned rather than shut the system down. Llano County Judge Ron Cunningham, who is the head of the …

WASHINGTON — The person suspected of recently leaking classified U.S. government documents has been identified as Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, two law enforcement officials said Thursday. Officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said that officials have …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A 1-year-old Australian shepherd took an epic trek across 150 miles of frozen Bering Sea ice that included being bitten by a seal or polar bear before he was safely returned to his home in Alaska. Mandy Iworrigan, Nanuq’s owner who lives in Gambell, Alaska, and her …

Heavy rain inundated roads in Florida on Wednesday, shutting down Fort Lauderdale’s airport until Thursday and stranding travelers, and causing “severe flooding” that stalled cars, officials and forecasters said. The city of 181,000 said early Thursday it activated its emergency operations center and secured airboats to conduct any rescues. Radar …

When the Labor Department discovered over 100 migrant children cleaning Midwest slaughterhouses in February, their employer, Packers Sanitation Services Inc., paid a $1.5 million fine, agreed to stop employing children, and, according to PSSI and employees who spoke to NBC News, quickly fired all workers found to be underage. But a 16-year-old whom NBC …

Prince Harry will attend his father’s coronation next month while wife, Meghan the Duchess of Sussex, plans to remain in California with the couple’s two children, officials said Wednesday. Any participation by the couple in King Charles’ coronation was far from a given, following their controversial announcement three years ago …

Memphis-area officials will meet Wednesday to decide whether to reinstate Justin J. Pearson to the Tennessee Legislature after Republicans expelled him last week for protesting gun violence on the chamber floor. The Shelby County Board of Commissioners is slated to take up the issue during a special meeting in Memphis …

A missing woman was discovered alive after a fisherman spotted her submerged Jeep in an East Texas lake, authorities said. The fisherman saw the vehicle Friday morning near a boat ramp in Lake o’ the Pines, 70 miles northwest of Shreveport, Louisiana, and reported it to authorities, the Marion County …

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A Pennsylvania candy maker ignored warnings of a gas leak at its chocolate factory and bears responsibility for a subsequent explosion that killed seven workers and injured several others, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. The family of Judith “Judy” Lopez-Moran, a 55-year-old mother of three, filed what their lawyers called the …