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A Harvard student was charged Tuesday with making a hoax bomb threat just so he could get out of a final exam.Eldo Kim, 20, of Cambridge, Mass., was scheduled for a hearing Wednesday in federal court.
George Zimmerman's former lawyer, Mark O'Mara, who is the subject of an "open investigation" by the Florida Bar, said Tuesday that he has done "nothing wrong.
At least one person is dead and four others were injured when a person entered a Nevada hospital on Tuesday afternoon and opened fire, officials said.
There’s no respite from snow for the East and Midwest.A winter weather system churning from the Great Lakes toward the Atlantic coast threatened to dump as much as 10 inches on parts of Maine and several inches in the major cities of the Northeast — enough to confound commuters and frustrate fliers.
The Colorado school-shooting gunman wrote the Latin phrase Alea iacta est — meaning "The die has been cast" — on his arm, along with numbers and letters that investigators believe outlined his plan for carnage, officials said Thursday.
Christmas could come early for one lucky winner this year if they scoop more than half-a-billion dollars in prize money up for grabs in Tuesday’s Mega Millions jackpot.A last-minute ticket buying frenzy saw the prize swell to $636 million on Monday before Tuesday’s 11 p.m. ET draw.
Today’s jobless workers face new discriminatory barriers to finding work in a broken economy. Some employers won’t consider out-of-work applicants for job openings. And more and more employers run credit checks, leaving long-term jobless workers, who have likely fallen far behind in their bills and seen their credit scores tank, on the streets.Today Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced a bill to stop employers from requiring prospective employees to disclose their credit history or disqualifying applicants based on a poor credit rating.
Former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger has been moved to a federal prison in Oklahoma, although it was not immediately clear if he is there to stay.The 84-year-old Bulger was being held Tuesday at FTC Oklahoma City, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons website.
In Washington, D.C., there is great news for working families. The District of Columbia Council voted to raise the minimum wage to $11.50 and extend paid sick days to tipped workers.
A wildfire burning in the Big Sur area of California has chewed through 500 acres and destroyed at least 15 homes — including that of a volunteer fire chief.“It still has not sunk in,” said Big Sur Fire Chief Martha Karsten told NBC affiliate KSBW. "I just haven’t absorbed it all yet.
