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A local television reporter is accused of using South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s personal cellphone number to make a prank phone call to the former chair of the state’s Republican Party, court documents show. An arrest warrant was issued Wednesday for Austin Goss, the now-former Capitol Bureau reporter for Sioux …

A New Mexico teenage mother was sentenced Monday to a mandatory 18 years in prison for tossing her newborn son into a trash dumpster behind a shopping center, but a state district judge cited mental health concerns and the defendant’s age in suspending two years of the punishment. Jurors convicted Alexis …

Stocks fell Tuesday as shares of beleaguered banks tumbled again and worries about the economy worsened. The rising fear sent yields sinking in the bond market, while Wall Street waits for the Federal Reserve’s latest move on interest rates and Washington edges closer to what would be a catastrophic default on …