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12:04 AM on Wednesday, April 8

A Long Island architect accused in a string of long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings is expected to plead guilty, closing a case that bedeviled investigators, agonized victims’ relatives and tantalized a true-crime obsessed public for years

12:02 AM on Wednesday, April 8

In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz

12:01 AM on Wednesday, April 8

One of the world's most famous highways marks its centennial this year

11:43 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Colorado Avalanche coach Jared Bednar isn’t ready to plan any parades just yet

11:17 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Asian shares are surging as oil prices plunged after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire that includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz

10:50 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Valeri Nichushkin scored twice and Colorado Avalanche beat the St. Louis Blues 3-1 on Tuesday night to clinch the Central Division and the top seed in the Western Conference

9:48 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick says he just wants to move on after the Dallas Mavericks contradicted his contention that their medical staff incorrectly conducted an MRI on Austin Reaves last weekend

8:12 PM on Tuesday, April 7

South Korea’s military says it detected North Korea firing several ballistic missiles toward its eastern seas in its second launch event in two days

8:00 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Michigan U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin is in Iowa to support Democratic congressional candidates and gather insights on how Democrats could win over President Donald Trump's supporters

6:00 PM on Tuesday, April 7

A judge has ordered a wounded North Carolina Marine veteran charged with murder to undergo psychiatric treatment

5:34 PM on Tuesday, April 7

A high school principal in Oklahoma is in stable condition after being shot in the leg inside the school's lobby

2:31 PM on Tuesday, April 7

South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley says it is time to move past her Final Four skirmish with UConn coach Geno Auriemma that became the talk of the tournament

1:54 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Hundreds of Cuban women have gathered in Havana to decry a U.S. energy embargo and other measures imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump that are strangling the Caribbean island

12:36 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Progressive Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is teaming up with online streamer Hasan Piker for campus events that are already sparking backlash

10:02 AM on Tuesday, April 7

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that American journalist Shelley Kittleson, who was kidnapped last week in Iraq, has been released

12:55 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war

12:20 AM on Tuesday, April 7

U.S. President Donald Trump pulls back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran, swerving to deescalate the war less than two hours before the deadline he set for Tehran to capitulate

12:08 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Democratic-backed candidate Chris Taylor has won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court

12:07 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Republican Clay Fuller has won Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former U.S. House seat in Georgia

11:25 PM on Monday, April 6

Oil prices plunged below $100 a barrel and Asia markets and U.S. stock futures jumped after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire that includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz