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The bodies were found at a funeral home in Colorado. The owners of a Colorado funeral home where 189 decomposing bodies were found have now been arrested, according to authorities. The improperly stored bodies sparked the governor to declare a local disaster emergency and call for assistance from the FBI. On Wednesday, the owners of the funeral home, Jon and Carie Hallford, were arrested in

An Alabama mayor ended his life after a website showed pictures of him cross-dressing F.L. "Bubba" Copeland wore many hats in the small city of Smiths Station in east Alabama. He was the mayor, a pastor and the owner of a local grocery store. He was also a husband and father. But in the days before Copeland took his life, the 49-year-old was revealed to have another identity — this time, of a

Fledgling House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., faces his first big legislative battle this week as his tries to marshal his fractious Republican majority into supporting an unconventional plan to avert a partial government shutdown beginning Saturday. Some House Republican hardliners were already pushing back at Johnson's proposal for a two-step stopgap bill that would not otherwise cut spending

Voters elected two women for the first time to lead Philadelphia and Pennsylvania’s second-largest county, installing Democrat Cherelle Parker as the 100th mayor of the state’s largest city and Democrat Sara Innamorato as executive of the county that includes Pittsburgh. Parker, 51, who has held office at the state and local level after first becoming involved in politics as a teenager,