NEW YORK (AP) — Firefighters dug through the rubble of a three-story building in Brooklyn on Wednesday after it collapsed at the edge of a construction site, killing at least one person and trapping others beneath the wreckage. Firefighters were called to the scene in the borough's Flatbush section around 4 p. m. News helicopter footage showed dozens of firefighters scouring the debris, clambering over the rubble pile and using their hands and power saws to cut through the ruins. One person...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Democratic nominee Scott Colom has defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi's closely contested U. S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black U. S. senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction. Colom's narrow victory is a seismic shift in Mississippi, which has been controlled mostly by white conservatives for generations, and it yielded immediate echoes around the country. The outcome adds to a decisive of...

DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — An ocean liner that is longer than the Titanic and was once the fastest on the seas headed Wednesday toward its final home on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico as the world's largest artificial reef. The SS United States floated placidly under a cloudy sky off the coast of the Florida Panhandle, most of it still above the water at dusk, even after workers flooded the hull to push it under. The event — described by officials as a controlled sinking — was a long-planned 5...